Thad Van Ry

Current

• Linux System Administrator at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Systems Administrator at LDS Church

Past

• Instructor at Guru Labs
• Sr. System Administrator at AlphaGraphics, Inc.
• Network Administrator at Nelson Laboratories, Inc.

• Systems Administrator at Alpnet

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Recommended

7 people have recommended Thad

Connections

126 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog

Thad Van Ry’s Summary

Extensive experience with various Linux Distributions including Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu.

Thad Van Ry’s Specialties:

Apache on Linux, DNS using BIND, Postfix, Sendmail

Thad Van Ry’s Experience

• Linux System Administrator

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  (Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

• Systems Administrator

  LDS Church

  (Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  Part of a 7 member, Unix/Linux team that is in charge of over 600 Unix and Linux servers.

• Instructor

  Guru Labs

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2006 — July 2007 (1 year )

  Travel for 2 - 3 weeks each month teaching Linux System Administration classes. Classes included everything from teaching beginning Linux classes to classes about services that run on Linux machines.

• Sr. System Administrator

  AlphaGraphics, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Printing industry)

  October 2004 — August 2006 (1 year 11 months)

  In charge of about 20 Linux servers running services for web, e-mail, DNS, etc.

• Network Administrator

  Nelson Laboratories, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Medical Devices industry)

  February 1999 — October 2004 (5 years 9 months)

  In charge of a network that included NetWare, Linux, and Solaris servers.

• Systems Administrator

  Alpnet

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1996 — 1999 (3 years )

Additional Information

Thad Van Ry’s Websites:

• My Blog

Thad Van Ry’s Interests:

Linux, open source software, geocaching

Thad Van Ry’s Groups:

Former member of Woods Cross City Council, Ubuntu Utah, PLUG, UTOS, Switzerland Zurich Mission

•    Provo Linux Users Group
•    Utah Open Source
•    LDS Professionals
•    Linux Expert
•    Eagle Scouts, Boy Scouts of America
•    Red Hat Certified Engineers (RHCE)
•    UTOPIA Supporters

Thad Van Ry’s Honors:

Red Hat Certified Engineer - #:804006455222052

Thad Van Ry’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch