Your Community, Our Community
About the Speaker
Minister of Magic at Splunk
Jesse Trucks has over 24 years of experience in ITops and SecOps. He has worked in non-profit group and organizational management since 2005, beginning with helping draft the LOPSA Code of Ethics and being a founding member of LOPSA. He later served as a LOPSA board member for several years. Trucks has founded and managed two LOPSA chapters - including our own LOPSA East Tennessee. He is a co-founder and President of ETSA, the non-profit formed by members of ETENN to support and grow our community, and he is the co-founder, President, and Principal of Knoxville School of Progressive Education, a non-profit, K-5 school. Trucks routinely consults with other non-profits on their bylaws and other organizational forming and management matters. He is the author and host of the Meanwhile in Security newsletter and podcast and the Minister of Magic at Splunk. He lives in Knoxville with his wife and son and their poodles and chickens building an oasis in the suburbs of West Knox, and he is an amateur radio operator with the callsign N9MOM.
Many of us have redefined community in new ways in the last 18 months. Some of us talk about being changed forever. Some of us talk about things being back to normal. Is community different now? Was it different in the last 18 months? Let's define our community and move into the future.