Introduction

[Mike Santangelo]

Hi all,

     I'm following along with the wiki and have reached the point where 
I need to send an introduction e-mail to the list. :)

My name is Mike Santangelo and I'm a linux consultant within Red Hat. I 
decided I wanted to get more involved and volunteer in the Fedora side 
of the house as my time permits, so the infrastructure team looked like 
a good place for me and my skills.

I've been working with various *nix's for around 17 years now, starting 
with AT&T Unix way back in '92. Solaris was probably the OS I worked 
with the most leading up to when I started working on Red Hat products 
full time. I have worked with Red Hat products professionally off and on 
since 2002 or so, and been experimenting with various Linux flavors 
since the late 90's.

I'm an RHCE with a Certificate of Expertise in Enterprise Storage 
Management (GFS and Clustering), and hope to get my certificate in 
Satellite soon. I have done a lot of engagements centered around 
Satellite and Clustering in the last year and a half so I am fairly 
strong on those technologies. I'm also a very good troubleshooter, which 
I think is my strongest skill. That, and I'm not afraid to go ask for 
help if I don't know something.

I hope to be able to make some of the meetings soon. Since I'm a 
consultant I am on the road a lot so schedules can be tough, but I will 
definitely try.  I'm not involved in anything else with Fedora yet, as 
infrastructure seemed like the natural first place for me as I looked 
around.

Thanks and look forward to working with everyone,

-Mike