Friday, April 6, 2007
More About Me
A little more detail on who I am and where I am in the tech world.
Technology is a second career for me, by choice. Before learning how to pull DRAM or edit files with vi, I spent 12 years as a trial lawyer both in government and private practice. That experience taught me the importance of paying attention to detail, and how to learn most of what I need to know from self-study. The practice became my life. As one of my mentors used to say, “the law is a jealous mistress”. But I began to wonder if there might not be something better out there. The search for that “something” eventually led me into information technology, a field I’d worked around the periphery of for almost a decade.
Leading up to the Y2K “transition”, I worked mostly in desktop support and engineering. Clearing that milestone, I got involved with directory services and identity management, which has now become my main area of expertise.
In addition to some vendor certifications and my law degree, I’ve also done graduate work in history — for the non-digital side of my brain.
Education
B.A., Humanities. State University of New York (1979)
J.D., Law. Rutgers University School of Law (1982)
M.A., History. Long Island University (1989)
Current Assignments
Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer, a Fortune 500 Company
Raleigh, N.C.
Technical Lead on:
* Oracle Identity Management Engineering
* Global Directory Operations
* Identity Management Support
Associate engineer on:
* Oracle ERP Business Conversion
* Warehouse Management System Upgrade
* MS Exchange Global Rollout
* Active Directory Implementation
Previous Projects
* Intranet and Internet Web Tier Support
* Netegrity SiteMinder Integration
* Global Directory Architecture
* Desktop Engineering
Areas of Interest:
* Directory services design and maintenance
* Enterprise applications for Open Source software
* UNIX/Windows Integration and Interoperability
Certifications:
* Red Hat Certified Technician
* Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (Expired)