Beech Rintoul

Current

Developer,Committer and Mentor at FreeBSD Project
Volunteer - North American Beta Testers Team at Skype
Owner at NorthWind Communications (Self-employed)

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Past

System Administrator at Sinbad Network Communications Inc.

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Beech Rintoul’s Summary

I'm an independent system administrator and web designer from Anchorage, Alaska. Coming from a SunOS background, I found FreeBSD to be an easy transition and never looked back. I’ve been using (and recommending) FreeBSD since the early 4.x days. For the last couple of years I’ve been contributing to the ports collection and at present I maintain 70+ ports for the project.

As a developer, I’m working on some new tools to install web apps and to clean up and standardize existing ports in that category.

As a committer, I’m working with many port maintainers helping them update existing ports and to properly code new ones.

As a mentor for the FreeBSD Project, I help guide quality developers into the project and support them until they are capable of committing on their own.

Beech Rintoul’s Specialties:

Vendor relations. I have fostered close working relations with several developers and vendors, both open-source and commercial. As a result several now work directly with FreeBSD.

Member and contributor for the North American Beta Testers team with Skype

Beech Rintoul’s Experience

Developer,Committer and Mentor

FreeBSD Project

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )

Volunteer Developer, Committer and Mentor working to port and maintain third party software to the FreeBSD operating system.
Volunteer - North American Beta Testers Team

Skype

(Telecommunications industry)

December 2007 — Present (2 years )

Volunteer with the North American Beta Testers Team in both Windows and Linux operating systems. I am also responsible for maintaining Skype on the FreeBSD operating system.
Owner
NorthWind Communications (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Networking industry)

June 1998 — Present (11 years 6 months)
System Administrator

Sinbad Network Communications Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)

June 2002 — August 2003 (1 year 3 months)

Design, Maintenance and upgrades of a Unix/Windows Internet Service Provider network. Duties included customer support and programming as necessary.