Member of Technical Staff at VMware, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Member of Technical Staff at VMware, Inc.
- Past
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- Senior Software Engineer at Lulu.com
- Director at Fedora Project
- Software Engineer - Fedora Project at Red Hat
- Treasurer at Fedora Foundation
- Software Engineer - Release Engineering at Red Hat
- Co-founder and Member at GNOME Foundation
- Software Engineer - RHAD Labs at Red Hat
- Webmaster - www.redhat.com at Red Hat
- Education
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- North Carolina State University - College of Management
- Columbia Union College
- Kingsway College
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Elliot Lee’s Summary
I've got ten years of experience in the world of open source software, an MBA concentrating on financial management, plus a little experience developing web applications. My goal is to make others successful in absolutely any endeavour I'm fortunate to be part of.
Elliot Lee’s Specialties:
Open source, community development, Python, C, RPM, GNOME, GTK+, CORBA, system administration, release engineering, software engineering, SQL, Perl, Linux, Unix, HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, distributed systems
Elliot Lee’s Experience
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Member of Technical Staff
VMware, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VMW; Computer Software industry)
August 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Working with the Guest Components engineering team to move open-source efforts forward and generally improve the state of the art in virtualization technology.
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Senior Software Engineer
Lulu.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
November 2006 — August 2007 (10 months)
Wrote PHP code, created AJAX applications, and worked on Java apps for the Lulu.com online publishing web site.
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Director
Fedora Project
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 3 months)
Working to provide resources and leadership that will make the Fedora open source community successful. Director & Treasurer of the Fedora Foundation while it existed.
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Software Engineer - Fedora Project
Red Hat
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHAT; Computer Software industry)
March 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 5 months)
. Release management and engineering for Fedora Core (through November 2005)
. Fedora project infrastructure development and team leadership
. Continue to be involved with responsibilities from previous position -
Treasurer
Fedora Foundation
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
September 2005 — April 2006 (8 months)
Actively involved in the Foundation's lifecycle, including creating basic infrastructure, filing for 501(c)(3) status, tracking the organization's finances, and dissolving the Foundation when it was no longer needed.
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Software Engineer - Release Engineering
Red Hat
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; RHAT; Computer Software industry)
January 2001 — March 2004 (3 years 3 months)
. Designed, implemented and maintained the Red Hat build system used for all OS development, packaging, and release engineering.
. Supported and provided help to developers working on packaging and OS development issues
. Maintained RPM packages included in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Core operating systems -
Co-founder and Member
GNOME Foundation
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 1997 — 2001 (4 years)
CORBA developer, GUI framework coder, application, and sysadmin - those are some of the roles I took in my involvement with the GNOME project. Although my current focus is on other areas of the free software universe, I am still a big fan of GNOME and support their efforts, occasionally assisting them by consulting on sysadmin tasks.
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Software Engineer - RHAD Labs
Red Hat
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; RHAT; Computer Software industry)
May 1998 — December 2000 (2 years 8 months)
. Co-creator of the GNOME project along with Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero.
. Original author of ORBit (CORBA implementation), oaf/bonobo-activation, and other object model-related stuff.
. Created lots of infrastructure and did system administration for the GNOME project.
. Created original design and implementation for the Nautilus file manager (and came up with the name! :-)
. Substantial contributions to Glib/Gtk/gnome-libs and pretty much anything else related to the basic GNOME desktop -
Webmaster - www.redhat.com
Red Hat
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; RHAT; Computer Software industry)
May 1996 — May 1998 (2 years 1 month)
. Created and maintained www.redhat.com
. Oversaw content management on this web site
. Designed, implemented, and supported Red Hat's support ticketing system
. Created and maintained registration code validation processes for the Red Hat Linux product
. Did operating system development for Red Hat Linux, including the first Linux implementation of Pluggable Authentication Modules, and the port of Red Hat Linux to the Sparc architecture.
Elliot Lee’s Education
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North Carolina State University - College of Management
MBA, Financial Management, 2003 — 2006
- Activities and Societies:
- Beta Gamma Sigma
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Columbia Union College
B.S., Computer Science, August 1995 — May 1999
National Merit Scholarship
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Kingsway College
High school diploma, August 1993 — June 1995
co-Valedictorian
Additional Information
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Elliot Lee’s Interests:
Music, photography, rollerblading
Elliot Lee’s Groups:
Toastmasters, linuxnet
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Fedora
Elliot Lee’s Honors:
99th percentile score on the American College Test
Mathematics Achievement Award, Province of Ontario
Elliot Lee’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
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