I appreciate the confidence the membership has shown in my abilities by electing me twice for the LOPSA Board of Directors. I hope they will continue to support my run for a third term. With nearly 25 years of experience as a systems administrator, network administrator, webmaster and sometimes developer, I feel I have a…
I feel that LOPSA is poised for a time of growth. We are getting more interest from system admins, from companies who cannot find system admins to hire, and from students who are starting to realize that system administration is a good career. I have been focused on improving LOPSA's communications with it members and prospective members by putting out the LOPSAgram on a monthly basis, posting to social media sites about LOPSA events, representing LOPSA at several conferences such as SCALE, LinuxfestNW, LISA, and ACPENW via working the booth and giving talks, mentoring several people at work and via the mentorship program along with co-chairing the Cascadia 2012 IT Conference. I have also been involved in setting up a new 4 year system admin degree at Bellevue College in Bellevue, WA.
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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.
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This is the third of my blog posts about issues within LOPSA that I would like to change. The text is taken, in a large part, from my candidate statement. At this moment, anyone who is not on the Board of Directors has a hard time knowing what is going on with the organization, and…
There is a discussion on LinkedIn about starting a Philadelphia area LOPSA group. If you're related to network and systems administration, and are anywhere near Philly, please head over to the discussion.
Tom Limoncelli has posted a pair of interesting questions on his blog, the same ones he asked the LOPSA Board candidates at one of the #lopsa-live sesssions last year. While I didn't get to answer them last year since I wasn't up for re-election, here is my take on them now. Question 1: I have…
It is Election time again and this year there are six people running for five seats. I want to speak about the incumbents. This endorsement does not mean any non support for the other candidates but I want to show my support for William, Dan and Ski. The three of them do a lot of work on the board over and above the quoted "5 hour per week" involvement you are told when asked to run for office. I still do not know how they handle their day job as well as the other duties they perform on the board.
This is the second in a continuing series of discussions on where I think LOPSA can stand to improve what it does, and how it does it. Most of the text is taken from my candidate statement. Right now, most of the regular communication with the members is the monthly LOPSAgram. I really like it,…
I'm happy to announce my candidacy for the LOPSA Board of Directors. I'm clearly not much of a blogger (yet), but this seems like a decent way to start work on my answers to the sorts of questions asked of candidates. This is not a formal candidate statement. First a little background on my involvement with…
The Lehigh Valley and surrounding areas are a wonderful place to live and work. Because of the density of people, tech companies and professional opportunities, I think there is a real opportunity for a community of network and systems administrators to develop. In hindsight, I see that I’ve now spent over 18 years doing network…