Ben Ford Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

As a Puppet community member, I've been directly involved with helping thousands of users in chat rooms and providing feedback or code reviews. I have presented at conferences, including PuppetConf, Interop, DevOpsDays, CfgMgmtCamp, and Puppet Camps. I maintain several tools used by other community members, such as:*.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

What good is a large community if they’re not active, engaged, and aligned with ecosystem goals? I coordinate community strategy and serve as a conduit between Product, Engineering, Marketing, and our incredible community of Puppet users and developers. In the years that I’ve been involved with Puppet’s community, I’ve helped it grow to one of the most.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

I am orchestrating the foundational shift of the Puppet Forge from a simple repository of content to a source of solutions and architecting a new Developer Experience team focused on building tools to solve actual practitioner problems. And I'm re-engaging the modules team with Community with our new release pipeline that powers the Trusted Contributors.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

I am responsible for being the voice of the user at Puppet. This takes many forms. On some days I'm building tooling for the community and on some days I literally sit and chat on Slack all day long. Most importantly, what I do is build and maintain relationships between people who use, develop with, or develop on our products both internal and external.To.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

I was responsible for developing and maintaining Puppet's portfolio of instructor-led training courses and the tooling used to deliver training and manage the classroom. This includes the web-based presentation application used to deliver content, tooling for building on demand training manuals from the same source material, classroom management Puppet.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Worked with Puppet customers to design and implement maintainable Puppet Enterprise deployments, including highly scalable infrastructures. Built and deployed high quality Puppet modules to manage and automate infrastructure and applications. Delivered training to Puppet users worldwide.

Pullman/Spokane/Tri-Cities/Vancouver/Everett/Global, Washington, US

The IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling (IPEM) is an innovative Ph.D. training program in "Model-based Approaches to Biological and Cultural Evolution" funded by the National Science Foundation. The program aims to produce professionals versed in modern evolutionary theory and familiar with the most important perspectives and quantitative techniques for.

Pullman/Spokane/Tri-Cities/Vancouver/Everett/Global, Washington, US

The Washington State Linux Users Group (LUG) exists to promote the visibility and use of Linux and other Free and Open Source software. We give away free Linux CDs and Open Source software CDs for other operating systems, help install Linux, and run mailing lists providing free Linux support. We also provide Linux related tech support for several WSU.

Sunnyvale, California, US

• Extended existing bug tracking system to include a forum and knowledgebase.
• Developed support site for prospective customers.
• Developed software delivery system providing trial editions of our product in a virtual appliance format.

San Jose, CA, US

• Served as technical support for test engineers.
• Assembled and configured network testbeds.

While at eRisk Security, I collected and analyzed legally admissible data during investigations in cases, both criminal and civil in nature.

Minor, Entrepreneurship

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Education record