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:
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4 successful conferences: I chaired the inaugural PICC 2010, mentored Cascadia IT 2011, 2012 and 2013 and coordinated the hotel/food and audio visual contracts and getting all the trainers for PICC 2011, 2012 and LOPSA-East ‘13. 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.
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Working on getting the LOPSA web site looking more modern and upgraded to Drupal 7 as well as getting forums up and running as well
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Hosted the LOPSA board retreat at my office in NJ to save money for the past 3 years.
- 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 18 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 3 years. If re-elected my goals will be to:
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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.
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Help the Locals committee 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.
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Mentor LOPSA Local groups that want to put on their own regional conferences to make them profitable.
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Continually improve the website by working with the Tech Team to upgrade and add new features.
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Working with the Board to define new membership benefits.
- Work with the board to bring more transparency to the board so the membership can see what we are doing to make LOPSA a better organization
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.