Lightning Talks!
About the Speakers
Research Cloud Team Member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
With two decades of IT experience behind him, Chris is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow, especially if they involve Linux. He currently serves on Research Cloud Team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he helps support the technical needs of the lab's many scientific research projects. His prior experience includes working as part of a two man engineering team at a Tier 1 ISP, a year long stint as a Senior Systems Engineer at Peak Hosting, and also supporting ORNL's supercomputing effort as a member of the HPC Operations Infrastructure team. When not chasing packets or bending Linux systems to do his bidding, his time is spent trying to keep pace with his daughter, exploring the local hiking haunts, playing with embedded Linux systems, and driving mountain roads in small two seater automobiles.
Support Engineer at GitLab
Bo Carbonell is a DevOps engineer who works as Support Engineer at GitLab, a DevOps platform that supports the entire life cycle of code. Bo has previously worked for almost 5 years as a Systems Engineer at Maryville College, prior to that, at Creekside Technologies, a managed service provider. Bo proudly graduated from Pellissippi State community college where he obtained an internship at ORNL for the Cyber Warfare and Research team. Bo has many hobbies but mostly enjoys learning and being with his family. An interesting fact about Bo - he used to play drums in a punk band.
President and Founder at Aegis IT
Jonathan Evenden is the President and founder of Aegis IT, located in Kingsport, TN. He has been full time in the IT industry since 2004, and has owned Aegis IT for over seven years. In the rare moments he is not in front of a computer, he loves playing board games and watching Netflix with his and son.
Join us for three lightning talks! Chris Layton presents "Cloudy with a chance of IaaS" - a lightning talk to spark discussion of what clouds really are and how we really feel about them. Bo Carbonell discusses "My career is like a needle. It leads me and I follow like thread" - about being nimble minded and how to discover your calling. Jonathan Evenden covers "Jump starting an IT career, how to get into IT as a career or transition to an upgrade once you have been in."