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<h3>From The Major BBS to Mingle, my road to Continuous Deployment</h3>

  <p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>

<p>I have about 20 years of experience that has led me to want to move my career towards DevOps.  I plan to make this pretty personal, funny, lighthearted and use my resume to drive the talk.  At the end of the day, I plan to keep it pretty humble and more of statement of respect for the where the movement has come and how I see the thought leadership behind DevOps driving change.</p>

<p>I have the following outline so far.  I like the Ignite Talk format since I haven't given a presentation of this nature for about 15 years and need a bit of a format to force me to edit/structure.  I also think I can probably come up with 20 original / entertaining slides.</p>

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<li>My early days as a Sys Admin

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<li>My very first job as a Sys Admin for an ISP in St. Charles called "Microthought"

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<li>I will probably have a couple fun nostalgic slides

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<li>Early FreeBSD and Modem Pools</li>
<li>Windows NT 3.51</li>
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<li>I'm going to talk about my second Job where I worked with a bunch of really serious "Software Engineers" and how they were Sciencey and I was Musicy and when I found Web Development -- it wasn't what they did and I liked it…

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<li>Basically, I could do development without being much of a Scientist..</li>
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<li>My move from being a Sys Admin to being a Web Developer

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<li>I never stopped doing Sys Admin work</li>
<li>I thought developers who couldn't do Sys Admin work were lame</li>
<li>Don't even get me started on the ones that couldn't write SQL</li>
<li>More fun nostalgic AIS slides</li>
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<li>Application Support

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<li>How I was tricked into it</li>
<li>Why I'm glad I was</li>
<li>Why I think it's precisely the "Dev" part of DevOps</li>
<li>For me, I'm going to talk a bit about how I felt some Silos broke down while I did my job at Apartments.</li>
<li>I'm also going to point out that some remained to rather inefficient ends.</li>
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<li>Management

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<li>What I like about management</li>
<li>What I don't like about management</li>
<li>What parts of management I want to continue doing</li>
<li>I intend to try to make this funny</li>
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<li>2014

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<li>Why are we still making configuration changes without Code ?</li>
<li>Why are deployments still hard ?</li>
<li>Why are developers still doing too much support ?</li>
<li>A few relavent RN things</li>
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