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! 

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[Will-i-am]

Who I am:

Technical Account Manager. 5+ years with Red Hat. Started as a Customer Support Specialist in SD.  RHCE. 

[bonnevil]

Who I am:

Steve Bonneville, designer for the RHEL, Management/Automation, and Storage courses.  I've been a production sysadmin, instructor, Red Hat consultant (briefly), course author, team manager, and course architect.  I've been kicking around Red Hat since 2000.

Where I'm based:

Minneapolis, Minnesota

My workstation:

Lenovo ThinkPad P50 running current Fedora is my main working environment.  Virtualization and the cloud have been such a major win for being able to spin up miniature environments for experimentation and testing.

The discipline I enjoy the most is:

System Administration, cruel mistress though she be.

My favorite course to teach:

I hate to pick favorites, but right now it'd be Ansible.  Ask me again in a few months!

My favorite toy as a kid:

I'm still a kid in my head.  Probably Lego, or Star Wars action figures.

In My Spare Time, I . . .

Bicycle, read a lot.  I'm another Kerbal Space Program fan, too, when I have the time.

[Dylan]

Background:
24 years of age. I currently live in Spindale, NC. I've worked in large scale, bleeding edge data centers (assisting with construction and production operations) for the past 6 years managing 100,000+ assets in which we maintained roughly 25,000 servers per engineer. Data Center Operations Engineer. Daily Linux user.

Skills that I have and/or wish to develop further:
Linux System Administration, Linux Hardening, Linux Automation, DevOps, Python, BASH

Current Work Laptop:
I'm awaiting the arrival of my Purism Librem 13.3" laptop which I'll be installing a Samsung 970 EVO M.2 and 860 Evo 2.5" SSDs and be utilizing PureOS/QubesOS/Arch Linux.

Actual assigned corporate laptop:
Lenovo T470s running Arch Linux.

I'm glad to be joining you all as founding members! I look forward to messaging with you on the boards. :)

[thework1]

Hi I'm Stephen Phillips, former Red Hatter current Cohesian. Trying to stay involved and keep my skills sharp. 

[RJ]

I'm RJ

My background was UNIX prior to 2008, and Linux thereafter.  I work as one of the primary Linux administrators with my company servicing various customers.  I teach basic UNIX/Linux classes to new UNIX/Linux administrators with my company and our customers Monthly.  I also am part of the Red Hat Accelerator's Program and one of the Red Hat Discussion area Community Leaders.  

I enjoy Linux and helping others where I can.  

Regards,

RJ

[Romo]

My name is Gary Romo and I have 24 years of IT experience.
Mostly in Support and Engineering of IT Infrastructure, Development and Production Services.
I am very interested in devloping my working knowledge of Satellite 6.3 especially Provisioning and Content Management. I am also very interested in improving my Ansible and Ansible Tower skills.

My Favorite Red Hat Coarse so far was D0407 Automation with Ansible.
I like to go fishing and I'm exited about what this community can do.  Thank you for the invitation.

[S_Russell]

I am leaving behind a flaming career as Solaris and Sparc hardware take their place next to Digital Equipment and SGI. I held on as long as could but did not see any further career path and did not want to sell what was left of my soul to Oracle. 

I started down the Linux path two years ago but suffered a head injury that sidelined my training for quite some time. Now, I am starting over from RH124 and making sure what gaps in memory I do have get filled in. My goal is to eventually reach RHCA by around 2020-2021.

[Sed3000]

Hi All!

Name: Sedrick White

Location: Durham, NC (US)

Title/Roles:  Virtualization/System/Networking Engineer & Linux/Security Instructor

Skills/Specialities: Windows, LInux, VMmware, Nutanix, Hyper-V, Networking

Areas of Studies:  Containers, Kubernetes, Redhat Certification (RHCSA/RHCSE)

I looking forward to collaborating within the community!

[mikkisse]

Hello!

My name is Mikhail. And i am system engineer, focused on Linux Systems, Virtualization and Storage. 

Glad to see you all!

[Robvd46]

Who I am:

Robert Du Preez, I have been in IT administration for the past 10 years, the last 5 years being specifically Linux focused.

I got into Linux as I had to start supporting it, completed my RHCSA about 3 years ago and from that point I knew this is what I wanted to do with my career, I got a new position about 1 year ago where my focus is mainly RHEL, I am resposible for about 150+ RHEL servers, Satellite and IPA. Our Linux estate is growing at an alarming rate which is great news :)

Completed my RHCE about 2 months ago and I plan on starting my first RHCS exam next year, on my way to RHCA.

Where I'm based:

Cape Town, South Africa

My workstation:

Dell Latitude E5570 (Oh how I wish it was a macbook)

The discipline I enjoy the most is:

System Administration, Devops

My favorite toy as a kid:

Any gaming console or computer.

In My Spare Time, I . . .

Gaming on my PS4 and reading, currently eagerly waiting the release of RDR2.

Favorite book series will definately be The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patric Rothfuss.

Cheers!