Thank you for considering me as a candidate for the LOPSA board. While I
have been a member of the trade which we call system administration for
over ten years, it's only in the most recent phase of my career in which
I've seen the need to be more active in our community. No sysadmin is an
island. Over the last few years, I've come to recognize that we cannot
successfully do this job alone.
I joined LOPSA following the LISA'05 conference because I found a sense of
community and belonging within LOPSA that was lacking in other groups, both
locally and globally. One of the immediate benefits I encountered was the
sheer volume and breadth of experience that my peers in the community had
built up. There was a free flow of information between all of us, fostered by
nothing other than a wish to help people become better at what they do.
This is community. It's a continually evolving and growing, distilling
into a form that benefits more and more people. I want to continue the
work of others that came before me and help further this evolution so that my
peers benefit from LOPSA and newcomers to the field can share the benefits and
bring their own unique and varied view points to the table. I want the
chance to show that we aren't the Simon Travaglia's of the world; we are
professionals.
I believe in LOPSA. I believe in the message it spreads and want to do my
part to make sure that message gets out there and stays out there. I
understand that being on the board may be thankless and trying on its worst
days. So can being a system administrator and that's OK. In the end, what
matters is that I performed as a LOPSA board member to the best of my
ability. Hopefully, you'll agree.
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Travis Campbell is a Senior CAD Systems Engineer at AMD in Austin, Texas. His
passion is building rich and robust environments that make it easier for his
customers to do their jobs well.
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