Introduction

Welcome to my simple home page. Here you'll find links to my resume, my journals, a variety of my webpages, projects and other interests.

I enjoy playing basketball, playing with and teaching my kids, and going hiking, backpacking and camping. I also like to read: we have a couple thousand books around here.

My official education is in physical education and journalism (with studies in computer science too). My experiences have included: managing and publishing monthly (print) newsletters and annual magazine; coaching youth, select, and junior college basketball; building and maintaining various websites (including a few that cost from $75,000 to $5 million); writing sports, and Unix- and open source-related articles; teaching HTML, Apache, BIND, mail (Exim), and various other workshops; writing and documenting software and maintaining open source projects; and a lot more.

Lectures (volunteer)

1. Intro to DNSSEC, DFWUUG, Aug. 7, 2008
2. Intro to DNSSEC, CACTUS, Jul. 17, 2008
3. What is BSD?, LFNW 2006, Apr. 29, 2006
4. What is BSD?, LFNW 2005, Apr. 30, 2005
5. Intro to pkgsrc, LFNW 2005, Apr. 30, 2005
6. Documentation formats and LyX, SeaBUG, Jan. 20, 2005
7. Documentation formats and LyX, GSLUG, Oct. 9, 2004
8. BSD, Seattle Unix Users Group (Seaslug), May 11, 2004
9. BSD, Tacoma Linux Users Group, May 15, 2004
10. Pkgsrc, LFNW 2004, Apr. 2004
11. File Integrity Tools (with Brian Hatch), GSLUG, Nov. 2003
12. "The Linux Boot Process", GSLUG, Sept. 2003
13. What is BSD?, LFNW 2003, Apr. 2003
14. "Linux from Scratch", GSLUG, Feb. 08, 2003
15. "Introduction to *BSD, A Linux Cousin", GSLUG, Dec. 14, 2002
16. What is BSD?, LFNW 2002, Apr. 2002
17. See my resume for more lectures and teaching experience

Projects

I am working on a variety of volunteer and professional jobs currently. But I am always open to other interesting or money-making projects.

• NetBSD developer
• Pkgsrc developer
• DragonFly developer (pkgsrc and documentation)
• BSD Newsletter.com editor
• BSD Certification Group member
• SeaBUG (Seattle area BSD user group) leader
• PkgLinux developer
• mailout, vm-pop3d, gethost, sendmailstats and other software
• freedesktop.org xlibs developer
• Coaching youth basketball, 2nd-3rd grade boys, Marysville Parks Dept. (season ended)
• Cub Scout Den Leader (Pack 117) (ended last month)

Projects I would like to get paid to do

• Linux distribution based on Pkgsrc
• Thinclient server/client solution based on Pkgsrc
• Print newsletter (or magazine) for *BSD
• lightweight regex based mail content filtering system
• non-bloated local system security audit tool