Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Jason Shive

[jason at jasonshive.com]

Hello,

My name is Jason Shive and I am interested in helping out on the  
Fedora project on the Infrastructure team. I have a bit more than 5  
years of System Administration in a large, enterprise environment.  
Currently it stands at around 2000 servers, mostly RHEL, with some  
Solaris and HPUX scattered about. My skills are mostly related to  
troubleshooting. I lead the problem resolution team at the office  
responsible for Break/Fix of the environment. I enjoy troubleshooting  
issues and always look forwards to the head-scratchers that seem to  
cause the greatest problems. I've been doing administration in this  
environment for more than 5 years, but have yet to do anything I could  
consider a specialization. I've been using linux, specifically Red Hat  
Linux since college and always enjoyed messing around with it. My  
current focus is virtualization with RHEV and have been focused on  
that as well as cloud services for a while. I'm also into programming  
language, though I can not program much with many of them. I'm  
currently using all the perl, php, and python I can work into my daily  
needs. I use whatever language I can (including shell scripting) to  
automate whatever I can for my team at work. I enjoy automating tasks  
almost as much as I enjoy pizza, and I really like pizza.

As far as what I can do for the team, I don't really know a whole lot  
about what the team does. I'm fairly comfortable managing systems  
(day-to-day tasks or processing changes to those systems),  
troubleshooting issue, testing fixes, or pretty much whatever use I  
can be. Lately I've been hanging out in the #fedora channel (Nick:  
Klainn) trying to answer the questions that are asked. I'm willing to  
help out as needed and can dedicate time to projects I may be  
assigned. I've never been great at random introductions via email, so  
if there's something specific you'd like to know, just ask.

Thanks for reading.