Introduce yourself to the Community

[Deanna]

Welcome to the Red Hat Learning Community! As we build a diverse community dedicated to collaborative, open source learning, let's get to know more about each other. Reply to this post with details about yourself, your background,  the skills you want to develop (or have developed ), career stories, favorite Red Hat courses, fun facts and anything else you may want to share with your fellow RHLC community members! 

This question is part of the 100K Member Contest - don't forget to kudo the original contest post to be entered. 

[unclemarc]

My name is Marc Richter, I've been with Red Hat as an employee since 2015 but was a Linux engineer using their fine stuff for a few years prior. Ok, more like a decade. I feel old sometimes.

My day job is Senior Technical Account Manager. Essentially, I'm a subscription that helps my 5 or so accounts use their Red Hat products better. I've blogged about that --> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/being-technical-account-manager-tam-day-life

When not working, I play all sorts of games. Computer games, board and card games, a weekly D&D campaign...games are awesome.

When not working or playing games, I'm a Scout leader...my son is a few requirements away from getting his Eagle, so that's cool.

I've been married...well, let's just say for a long time. Two of my daughters are in college, both doing better than I did. My wife and I also decided that 3 dogs and a cat needed to be added to the household, because 4 kids wasn't enough. We might be kinda dumb.

Glad to be here.

[Michael]

Who I am:

I'm a long time sysadmin and I don't know the exact timing anymore, but I was one of the earliest RHCE's though I let it lapse a long, long time ago. I currently work at Red Hat in IT supporting our email and other collaboration tools.

Where I'm based:

Raleigh, NC

The discipline I enjoy the most is:

I'm all about security and automation. I like making my life easier.

 My favorite toy as a kid:

I was all about action figures, mostly Star Wars, but micronauts were also common. Before that it was the large scale G.I. Joe's, Six Million Dollar Man, and Star Trek figures.

In My Spare Time, I . . .

I sing (karaoke, in my car, to my cat), I play guitar, I perform improv both shortform and longform, and I play D&D.

[dwinchell]

Hi folks, I am a Senior Consultant with Red Hat. I work with customers adopting our products, focusing on middleware, migration and development. While I work with Red Hat technologies every day, I would like to start giving back by contributing code upstream. That's a new world for me so I am hoping to find some guidance.

[CubedRoot]

Who I am:

I am a Senior Cloud Consultant for the Mangement Practice, working with Cloudforms, Satellite and a few other products.   I've been with Red Hat for 3 years, and earned my RHCA before being hired in.

I am also a pilot, and I own a 1973 Cessna Cardinal 177RG that I love flying when I am not on the road for work.  I still can't figure out why Red Hat won't let me fly myself to customers, instead of using horrible commericial travel :-|

Where I'm based:

Chattanooga, TN. USA. (Home of the fastest internet around, 10gig fiber to the home!)

My workstation:

2018 Mac Book Pro 15".  Vital tool as a traveling consulting when I need to work with all sorts of customer projectors, equipement, etc.

The discipline I enjoy the most is:

Automation and Mangement.  Currently doing most of my work with Cloudforms and a bit of Ansible.

Highest Red Hat Certification:

Red Hat Certified Architect -  Level III

Hello everyone! Looking forward to contributing to the community and helping folks learn!

[mcalizo]

My Name is Mike Calizo. I am a Red Hat TAM currently based in New Zealand. I am actively contributing to the local community by co-organizing Ansible and Openshift meetup. The aim of this meetups is to collaborate and learn from each other.  Having to think topics to talk on these meetups sometimes is challenging. I am hoping that with this community, I can reach out to other members who do meetups and share ideas!

This is awesome and I am excited to be part of this community.

[BlackNuvo]

Hi all,

I'm Marco a Solution Architect working from the office of Melbourne. I love everything that is open... mind... source...air... and so on...

See you soon

[Idzuwan]

Who I am:

I'm a long time linux sysadmin, working as a Linux consultant at local company

Where I'm based:

Cyberjaya, Malaysia

The discipline I enjoy the most is:

I'm all about security and automation. I'm moving from bash shell to ansible
 
My favorite toy as a kid:

Lego and still is :)

In My Spare Time, I . . .

I fly rc plane/multi-rotor, paramotoring, riding bike to no where :)

[Harkanwal]

Hello community, I am Support Engineer for the IP networks for Telecom backbone with more than 10 years of experience.

Now concentrating on moving to openstack deployments and support. Preparing for EX200 and then EX210.

[Yehuda_Z]

I'm Yehuda, based in Israel. I am assigned to the Red Hat Tel Aviv office, but I have my own office in my home town of Ashdod. 

I write documentation for virtualization on RHEL. 

I enjoy playing tennis and bike riding. I have 7 daughters (mostly married already) and 15 grandchildren (with more on the way)!

Glad to be part of the community!

[tscherf]

HI there, my name is Thorsten and I work for Red Hat as Principal Software Maintenance Engineer in our Identity-Management team. I'm at Red Hat now for almost 15 years and started my career as Instructor and Consultant in our Professional Services department.

I'm happy to answer any questions related to Identity-Management. Please reach out in case you need help or have questions.

Cheers
Thorsten