by wbilancio

2011 Candidate Statement: William Bilancio

There’s been a change at LOPSA recently.  Less talking, more doing.  My name is William Bilancio and I am proud to be part of that change. 

Recent accomplishments:

  • 2 new chapters: I helped LOPSA start NYC, and Baltimore/DC chapters by sharing my experience from running LOPSA New Jersey.
  • 3 successful conferences: I chaired the inaugural PICC 2010, mentored Cascadia IT 2011, and coordinated the hotel/food and audio visual contracts and getting all the trainers for PICC 2011.  All three were profitable before the doors opened.  A combined total of more than 150 new LOPSA memberships were gained and put over $9,000 in LOPSA’s bank account.  Both events are now annual.
  • First web-site upgrade in 5 years.  With Dan Rich, a huge effort to upgrade a highly customized CMS to a standard release, without losing any content, accounts, or data.  In doing so, the membership and renewal system is working again.
  • Hosted the LOPSA board retreat at my office in NJ to save money.
  • Member and chair of the LOPSA Education Committee since 2005, coordinating our efforts at SCALE, OLF and more.

I have been a system administrator for over 15 years and a charter member of LOPSA since inception. Outside of LOPSA, I am the founder of LOPSA-NJ  and run the Princeton-Area LUG (LUG/IP).

I fondly remember being at LISA ’10, wearing one of those bright red LOPSA t-shirts that said, "Ask me why I am a member"  My answer was simple: community, community, community.  I am a member of LOPSA to be part of a community of system admins.

I’ve been proud to serve on the Board of Directors for the past year by filling a recent vacancy.  If re-elected my goals will be to:

  1. Expand LOPSA membership to underserved groups.  In particular, bring in more Windows administrators to LOPSA by offering them Window specific benefits on the web site and in the LOPSA community.
  2. Organize a LOPSA chapter in every state and market.  We should have a LOPSA chapter in every major market, pooling resources such as building a speakers list that can be used to bring higher quality talks that draw more members.
  3. Continually improve the website by working with the Tech Team to upgrade and add new features.
  4. Working with the Board to define new membership benefits.

If re-elected I will continue working hard to make LOPSA a better, bigger community for all admins regardless of whether you are a windows admin, *nix sysadmin, a storage admin, a network admin, or a dev op.

If you have questions or would like to chat, you can find me on #lopsa as wbilancio or feel free to drop me an e-mail at wbilancio@bilancio.org.