Bryan J Smith (BS)
- Red Hat Global Professional Services (GPS)
- Senior Consultant, Financial Services Industry (FSI)
Contact
As a "remote employee" (mobile consultant), Personal Blackberry is always best if not on IRC.
Voice
- +1 (407) 489-7013 (Mobile)
- +1 (407) 366-7013 (Home, greater Orlando area)
- +1 (201) 499-4360 (Client, greater NYC area, direct line)
- GPG Key ID B213341D -- Bryan J Smith (BS) brsmith at redhat.com
- GPG Fingerprint: 9321 2D27 9620 467D 70DB D11D 9511 0508 B213 341D -- expires 2009-DEC-31
b.j.smith@ieee.org (External Blackberry/Personal)
- Do not send/forward Red Hat email to Blackberry/Personal.
- Only send reminders, note to check Red Hat email, etc...
bryasmit@lehman.com (On-site at Client)
- For Lehman-specific correspondence
Instant Messenger (IM)
- Internet (personal): thebs413 (AOL), thebs413 (Yahoo)
- Red Hat (IRC handles): TheBS (external), brsmith (internal)
External Internet Links
- LinkedIn Profile (bjsmith)
- Professional Blog at Yahoo (redhat.brsmith, Experimental)
- Personal Blog at Blogger (thebs413, Deprecated)
Enterprise End-Users
For those developers and other Fedora contributors trying to reach enterprise end-users, I have contacts at the following former and current clients.
Red Hat Clients/Engagements
Currently ...
- Red Hat Onsite DEE - Lehman Brothers; Jersey City, NJ (2007 Nov - PRESENT)
Provisioning, Deployment, Configuration Management of 15,000 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers. Proprietary system built around Kerberos, YUM, PXELinux, cfengine, etc... Provisioning system also utilized for booting another 11,000 Solaris and Windows servers. Client has interest in cobbler-koan provisioning, IPA credential management, puppet and other, emerging technologies (ET).
Former/Significant Clients/Engagements
As an independent, prior to joining Red Hat ...
- A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.; St. Louis, MO USA
- Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS); St. Louis MO - Seattle, WA USA
- CMP Media, Inc.; USA publications Software Development, Sys Admin (defunct), UNIX Review
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); IEEE-USA subcomittees 802.11f (adhoc), 802.11s (mesh)
- IPC Systems, Inc.; New York, NY, Fairfield, CT USA
- L-3 Aerospace Company; Orlando, FL USA
- Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVWD); Las Vegas, NV USA
- Linux Professional Institute (LPI); Toronto, ON Canada
- NASA/USAF 45th Space Wing; Patrick AFB, FL USA
- Post, Buckley, Schuh & Jernigan; Maitland - Melborune - Miami - Orlando - Winter Park, FL USA
- State Farm Insurance, State Farm Bank; Bloomington, IL USA
- TimeSys Corporation; Pittsburgh, PA USA
- Walt Disney Corporation, Walt Disney World (WDW) Company; Orlando, FL USA
- Various additional clients in defense, education, finance and semiconductor industries; CT, FL, GA, IL, IN, MO, NY, NV USA