Self-Introduction: James Blake

[James Blake]

Hi everyone, my name is James Blake (but you can call me Jimmy) and I
live in Kent in the United Kingdom. My Fedora Account System (FAS)
username and IRC nick is jimmyblake.

I learned about the Fedora Marketing team through the Join Us page,
and I am interested in joining because I've long been a consumer of
FOSS and it is about time I gave something back to the community and
as I can't really code for toffie my marketing skills are probably of
more use!

This is the first FOSS project I have worked on but I have several
years worth of experience in product marketing and product management
within commercial environments.  My background has a definate
information security and business continuity slant and I currently
work as the Chief Security Officer for Mimecast, a global cloud
services vendor specialising in email management that utilises a lot
of Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS instances.

I am hoping that my experience in the articulating the value of
technical products and how they can be used, as well as the FOSS model
and its place in cloud computing, will prove a benefit to the Fedora
marketing team.  At work I spend a lot of my time assessing risk on
our combined Linux, Mac OS and Windows real estate, I am particularly
interested in how FOSS (including initiatives such as OWASP) can
produce more secure software than commercial models.

As I said, this is my first step in contibuting to a FOSS project, so
I don't really know my way around but I am keen.

Jimmy