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Geoff is a scientist turned programmer / operations engineer. He has worked for three venture backed startups and was one of the first employees at two of them. The Red Hat Picasso release in 1996 was his first exposure to Linux and he has been a Linux user ever since.

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01 May 2017 . . Eliminate > Automate > Delegate Comments

A couple weeks ago I picked up some new responsibilites at work. Time consuming, low tech and (I am told) routine work, not the kind I welcome. I will omit the specifics because they are unimportant but it is work that, in its current form, requires sysadmin involvement so it legitimately cannot be bounced back to it’s origin.

Why don’t you document it and send it to the L1 support team to handle?

Why don’t you automate it?

These are questions I have fielded from coworkers. All reasonable suggestions and consistent with the “Automate Everything” mantra...

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  • Jun 2016 - today

    Solarwinds: DevOps Engineering

  • February 2016 - June 2016

    Logicnow: Linux Sysadmin

  • July 2015 - Dec 2016

    ELXR Health: Living the startup dream. First employee at this venture backed startup.

  • December 2014 - June 2015

    AnyCloud: Went through The Startup Factory accelerator program.

  • May 2011 - August 2014

    Cogneb: Founded own company. Digital educational materials.

  • January 2003 - February 2011

    GSK: Back for more. IT focused this time around.

  • May 2001 - November 2002

    Cogent Neuroscience: My first taste of #StartupLife

  • November 1997 - May 2001

    GlaxoWellcome: Decoding the human genome.

  • August 1995 - November 1997

    UNC Chapel Hill: Research Technician in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. Yeah science!

  • August 1994 to May 1995

    NIEHS: Research internship studyig apoptotic effects of monatomic cations in rat thymocytes

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