User:Bjsmith

NOTE: I'll change this shortly to better insult myself.

= Contact =

Bryan J. Smith can be reached via e-mail at [mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org?subject=Wikia b.j.smith@ieee.org]

He maintains a blog at Blogger (thebs413) and profile at Linkedin (bjsmith).

= Biography =

Bryan J. Smith graduated Summa Damn Lucky with a BSCpE from UCF's College of Engineering and Computer Science (1997). He holds over two (2) dozen useless IT certifications after taking and passing over forty (40) IT examinations in two three (3) month periods with 0 training -- credentials that his clients and/or employers HR departments required. With almost fifteen (15) years of combined engineering and IT experience in the fields of aerospace, civil, defense, education, finance and semiconductors, at organizations such as Boeing, Disney, L-3, NASA and State Farm, Mr. Smith considers himself a total noob in the areas of computer architecture and software and systems design and integration.

Mr. Smith's primary purpose for associating himself with Wikia is to build the Enterprise Linux Resource (ELResource) based on his pathetic experience developing and integrating Linux into enterprise environments since the mid-'90s. His contributions are based on his current Linux training materials and work-in-progress (WIP) book Enterprise Linux Management which he hopes to share to all, among other contributors.

= Publications =

In addition to annoying many users in many different forums, producing overdocumentation for countless clients and a heafty helping of babble in various project documentation, a few of Mr. Smith's more formal publications include ...

* 2002 April - Backups with Easy File Access * 2004 April - Dissecting ATA RAID Options * 2004 February - Securing Intranets with IPCop - NOTE: key sections were removed for size constraints * 2004 November - Dissecting PC Server Performance * 2005 January - Licensing Risks, Not Revolutions - part I * 2005 February - Licensing Risks, Not Revolutions - part II  * 2005 September - Dissecting Virtual Tape Libraries
 * MacMillan/Sams' Samba Unleashed - contributing author of ~100 pages (Cross-subnet, BSD and Solaris)
 * CMP Media's Sys Admin Magazine