Pamela L. Howell

Location: Central NJ | NYC and Philadelphia - USA
Speaking Topics: system administration | open source | Freedom of Information | Privacy | hacking | Time Management | project management | Being a Woman Geek | UberGeek-ness
Spoken Languages: English | Geek | French (light)

Photo: 
pam_small.jpg
Web links / Blogs: 
Esoteric Resources Incorporated
pamelahowell's vaguetheories
Pam Vlogs at LISA `09
Pam on LinkedIn - professional-y
Pam on Twitter - very contemperaneous
Pam on Facebook - a bit more fun

Pamela L. Howell is a senior-level IT consultant in the system administration, security, and programming fields from Central NJ. She's also been a UNIX geek since she went in to her dad's office at Bell Labs and printed Snoopy calendars on his Multics box in the early 70s, but more officially since she learned SVR4 Rel3 at the labs herself 1988-90. She tends to specialize in communicating intensely technical information as clearly as possible.

Previous Presentations: 
LOPSA-NJ, Oct. 01, 2009 - Talk entitled, "Almost 30 Points of Failure...or...how I spent 3 days deinstalling Vista and Vmware and trying to get a stable Ubuntu 9.04 enviornment."
Beyond HOPE Conference 1997, Organizer (http://beyond.hope.net)
HOPE Conference, Registration, Documentation, Ops/Support and flophouse (http://hope94.hope.net/)

Jessica Smith

Location: Australia | Melbourne
Speaking Topics: What has #AmazonFAIL taught us? | Creative is the new black (fashion-wise not race-wise) | Empowering with Tech | IT for CEOs (and other 'C-level' people) | Why your CFO is your worst enemy | various other random and entertaini
Spoken Languages: English | Geek | Business | Plain English

Web links / Blogs: 
ITgrrl.com

I translate Geek ⇄ Business.

I also translate Geek ⇄ Plain English.

I am good with the humour type stuff.

CEOs, CFOs, CIO, and other TLAs don't scare me a bit.

Boring presentations are the antichrist.

If I ever put the text of my presentation in bullet-points, you are hereby authorised to kick me.