Head Guru Posted February 15, 2008 Posted February 15, 2008 Hello, Effective last monday Ryan MacDonald is our new Data Center Operations Manager. Ryan brings many years of background to the table. As some of you know, Ryan MacDonald is the founder of R-FX Networks (www.r-fx.ca). R-FX is responsible for some of the most widely used Linux products on the GNU market today. Tools such as APF (advanced policy firewall) and BFD (brute force detection) all come from the team at R-FX. I had to do some serious talking to get Ryan on our team full time, but he has accepted the challenge and has taken on the full time job as of last monday, and things are already moving fast at our Troy, MI facility. Changes have already started to take form at the Data Center. Ryan just completed a large scale automation utility for monitoring our power distribution and is working on a program to better assist with new server rollouts and hardware tracking. Some longer term projects he has outlined to me already included automated OS reloads, better tracking of core network devices and man is he spending my money. Today we took delivery of new Cisco Equipment. Ryan determined that some of our current switching devices could use upgrades and also our core routers could use some memory upgrades. Long story short, things are moving very well under Ryan's direction. Also, effective last monday Jesse Salens is no longer employed with TCH. Happy Surfing! Bill
TCH-Bruce Posted February 15, 2008 Posted February 15, 2008 Congratulations and good luck Ryan! To Jesse, good luck in your next endeavor.
Bunni Posted February 15, 2008 Posted February 15, 2008 Congratulations, Ryan! Evidently you've got the stuff! All the best to Jesse who has moved on!
TCH-Carl Posted February 15, 2008 Posted February 15, 2008 Wishing you the very best Jesse. Congrats, Ryan. All the very best for you in the new avatar, post well deserved... psst, ryan, next time you order stuffs, let me know. Some cool hardware to a different delivery address
TCH-Andy Posted February 15, 2008 Posted February 15, 2008 Congratulations Ryan All the best to Jesse in his new role
TCH-Alex Posted February 15, 2008 Posted February 15, 2008 Congratulations Ryan :) All the best to Jesse
MikeJ Posted February 15, 2008 Posted February 15, 2008 Congrats Ryan. The TCH Datacenter is in good hands. Good luck Jesse in future endeavers. Your time and efforts here were appreciated.
flashram Posted February 17, 2008 Posted February 17, 2008 Congratulations Ryan and all the best with this huge task you are taking on I am sure. All the best to Jesse he helped me out where he could as well.
Bob Crabb Posted February 18, 2008 Posted February 18, 2008 Congratulations Ryan!!! I also hope that Jesse finds success and happiness in his future endeavors. Good luck Jesse!!!
TCH-Vivek Posted February 18, 2008 Posted February 18, 2008 Congrats Ryan! Good luck with the new projects you are involved. All the best to Jesse.
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