G. Matthew Rice Email & Phone Number

Technical and management lead in the develpment of the world class Linux Professional certification program. Work with, at a technical level, a team of international Subject Matter Experts (including Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, Japan and more).Developed a series of enterprise level of certifications as well as an 'essentials' level aimed towards.

This is really a continuation of my previous roles at LPI. As of March 2006, I have taken on the additional role of leading the exam and certification programme development efforts of LPI. This requires both a technical background to ensure that new and revised certifications accurately cover the knowledge domain for the exams and a managerial/leadership.

Originally, Starnix Inc. was a founding sponsor of LPI and I eventually volunteered to take on some IT roles. It eventually grew to overseeing and participating in all IT functions in the organization.

Starnix Inc. is a Linux and Open Source Software managed service provider and training organization that helps clients in all aspects of IT use. This includes network administration and support as well as consulting, training, software development and integration with legacy systems.

Co-founder and board member but chiefly a volunteer for the Canadian-based Free and Open Source Software advocacy group.

Helped to organize events and speakers

Developer, QA, deployment in Solaris and Linux administration and software development. All clients and work were eventually rolled into the start-up Starnix Inc.

Fortran developer for legacy geophysical applications while developing new tools, and converting and improving legacy apps (and replacing source code for lost libraries) using C, Tcl/Tk and Perl.