Executive Director

• Nov 2015 - Present

Director of Product Development

• Dec 2010 - Nov 2015

Technical and management lead in the develpment of the world class Linux Professional certification program. Work with, at a technical level, a team of international Subject Matter Experts (including Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, Japan and more).Developed a series of enterprise level of certifications as well as an 'essentials' level aimed towards assisting educational institutions with the introduction of Linux and Open Source to their students.Continue to provide oversight on key IT issues concerning the operations of the organization including candidate management (over 350,000 exams delivered and 120,000+ certified members), certification and examination development and delivery tools. Designed and oversaw the development of a remote testing service which is integrated completely with the organization's systems.Designed and oversaw development of a mirror system for regional partners which integrates with the international organization's systems allowing for localized management of member services.International travel to meet with key stakeholders to gather local needs so that they are included in the design plan for updates and new certifications.

Director of IT and Product Development

• Mar 2006 - Dec 2010

CIO/CTO

• Aug 2004 - Mar 2006

Partner

• Jun 1998 - May 2015

Starnix Inc. is a Linux and Open Source Software managed service provider and training organization that helps clients in all aspects of IT use. This includes network administration and support as well as consulting, training, software development and integration with legacy systems.

Co-founder, Board of Directors

• Jan 1999 - Nov 2013

Co-founder and board member but chiefly a volunteer for the Canadian-based Free and Open Source Software advocacy group.

Volunteer

• 1997 - 2007

Helped to organize events and speakers

Partner

• May 1995 - Jun 1998

Developer, QA, deployment in Solaris and Linux administration and software development. All clients and work were eventually rolled into the start-up Starnix Inc.

Software Developer

• May 1993 - May 1995

Software developer using Fortran for legacy geophysical applications while converting, improving (and replacing source code for lost libraries) in C, Tcl/Tk and Perl.