Lopsa-East ’14 Schedule

Friday May 2nd, 2014 – Training Only till 5:00pm
8:00am 9:00am Registration and Welcome Coffee

Brunswick Ball Room A

Brunswick Ball Room B

Brunswick Ball Room C

Brunswick Ball Room D

Conference Room A

Conference Room B

9:00am 10:30am Evil Genius 101

Thomas Limoncelli

Class has been Canceled
Intro to Puppet

Thomas Uphill

Navigating the Business World – The TrustED Advisor

Carolyn Rowland & Nicole Forsgren Velazquez

Hands-On Security for System Administrators

Branson Matheson

Implementing Kanban to Improve your Workflow

Jennifer Davis

10:30am 11:00am Morning Break – for training students only
11:00am 12:30pm Evil Genius 101

Thomas Limoncelli

Class has been Canceled Intro to Puppet

Thomas Uphill

Navigating the Business World – The Trust Advisor

Carolyn Rowland & Nicole Forsgren Velazquez

Hands-On Security for System Administrators

Branson Matheson

Implementing Kanban to Improve your Workflow

Jennifer Davis

12:30pm 1:30pm Lunch – for training students only
1:30pm 3:00pm Intro to Time Management for System Administrators

Thomas Limoncelli

Building your PowerShell Toolkit

Douglas Finke

Vagrant: Not Just for Developers

Mark Harrison

Navigating the Business World for SysAdmins: Methods

Carolyn Rowland & Nicole Forsgren Velazquez

Technology Manager’s Survival Guide

Scott Cromar

How to Interview a System Administrator

Adam Moskowitz

3:00pm 3:30pm Afternoon Break – for training students only
3:30pm 5:00pm Intro to Time Management for System Administrators

Thomas Limoncelli

Building your PowerShell Toolkit

Douglas Finke

Vagrant: Not Just for Developers

Mark Harrison

Navigating the Business World for SysAdmins: Methods

Carolyn Rowland & Nicole Forsgren Velazquez

Technology Manager’s Survival Guide

Scott Cromar

How to Interview a System Administrator

Adam Moskowitz

3:30pm 5:00pm Registration for Conference Participants
5:00pm 6:00pm Keynote Speaker: Vishvananda Ishaya
6:00pm 9:00pm Dinner On Your Own
9:00pm 12:00am Birds-Of-A-Feather Birds-Of-A-Feather Birds-Of-A-Feather Birds-Of-A-Feather Birds-Of-A-Feather Birds-Of-A-Feather
Saturday May 3rd, 2014
8:00am 9:00am Registration and Welcome Coffee

Brunswick Ball Room A

Brunswick Ball Room B

Brunswick Ball Room C

Brunswick Ball Room D

Conference Room A

Conference Room B

Devops Talks Track

Infrastructure Talks Track

Professional/Career Talks Track

General Topic Talks Track

Training

Training

9:00am 9:40am Choosing the Right Config Management Tool for Your Environment

Jacob Jernigan

Enlightening Technical Leadership

Kartik Subbarao

Step AFK: Practical Advice for Career Management

Nathen Harvey

Starting & Growing a LOPSA Chapter

Mike Julian

Part 1 – Application and File System Acceleration with Solid State Storage

Part 2 – A Crash Course on Object Storage: Massive Scalability, Deduplication, Cloud Storage and Even Tape

Chris Robertson

Active Directory

TBA

9:45am 10:25am Code Review for Sys Admins

Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph

Using Ansible to Fill the Gaps Left Over from Puppet and mCollective

Thomas Uphill

IT Careers Panel

LOPSA Mentors

Power & Cooling for the Small Office Server Room…or Closet

Jake Mohnkern

10:30am 11:00am Morning Break
11:00am 11:40am DevOps in a Windows World

George Beech

Git Hooks for Sys Admins: With Puppet Examples

Thomas Uphill

Backing Into Configuration Management

R. Marshall Webber

Switching to Linux for…Switches?

Will Dennis

Part 1 – Application and File System Acceleration with Solid State Storage

Part 2 – A Crash Course on Object Storage: Massive Scalability, Deduplication, Cloud Storage and Even Tape

Chris Robertson

Active Directory

TBA

11:45am 12:25am Operations Level Up

Mandi Walls

The Stack at Stack Exchange

Tom Limoncelli

Professional Topics Panel Discussion

Dave Parter and Philip Kizer

Where MDM on iOS Leaves Off: It’s Not the Be All, End All, So You Have to Plan

Marc Grayson

12:30pm 1:30pm Lunch – Garden State Ballroom
1:30pm 2:10pm You are Not a DevOp

Nathen Harvey

Building an Elastic Interface on EC2 with Puppet

Thomas Linkin

Don’t Be That Guy

Carolyn Rowland
Avleen Vig

Meraki Networking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud

Scott Seltzer

Advanced Puppet

Thomas Uphill

High-Availability Linux Clustering

Joshua Jensen

2:15pm 2:55pm The Future of System Administration  (and what you should do to prepare)

Adam Moskowitz

Using Vagrant to Remove the Cost from Experiments

Thomas Linkin

Fundamental Techniques for Release Engineering in the Real World

N.J. Thomas

Presentation Skills for the Highly Technical Employee

R Marshall Webber

3:00pm 3:25pm Afternoon Break
3:30pm 4:10pm Testing Your Tickets: How to Reduce Rework & Impress Your Customers at the Same Time

Chris Ess

Containers vs. Virtualization: An Introduction for the Impatient

R. Marshall Webber

Tom’s Top 5 Time Management Tips

Tom Limoncelli

Lightning Talks Advanced Puppet

Thomas Uphill

High-Availability Linux Clustering

Joshua Jensen

4:15pm 4:50pm Why Write a Security Plan?

Andrew Mundy 

Packing It In: Images, Containers, and Config Management

Michael Goetz

Book Preview: The Practice of Cloud Administration

Tom Limoncelli

5:00pm 6:30pm Garden State Ballroom
Keynote by Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: Universal Design for Tech: Improving Gender Diversity in our Industry