Testimonials

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  Jesse is an excellent sys admin -- smart, responsible, creative, and persistent. He possesses a breadth of experience. As well, he is genuine and a pleasure to work with.

  Ryan Cunningham

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  Jesse brought order to YEP's IT chaos. We had a single network for our student computer lab and agency documents, no articulated plan, and regular (unreported) IT issues that would linger for weeks. Jesse suggested seasonal IT improvement plans, developed in consultation with YEP Directors. Through

  this well-facilitated planning process and Jesse's persistent follow-through and advice, we are at a place of stability. We have two separate networks (VLANs) for students and staff, a clear reporting and trouble resolution process, and clear next steps for further improvement. Jesse is an excellent IT partner for any organization.

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  Gaylon Parsons

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  Jesse is extremely thorough and extremely professional in his approach to technical issues--when he engaged with a problem we could be sure it would be resolved, that the resolution would stick, and that he would follow up after the fact to make sure the solution kept on working. He's a tenacious pr

  oblem solver and a killer systems engineer, with a strong devotion to the open source software movement and to using his powers for good.

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  Daniel Heath

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  Jesse joined the CollabNet Cloud Services team as our friendly systems Shepard. He was dubbed "Shepard" on day one! Jesse joined at a time when CollabNet integrated a couple other applications into our cloud platform. Integration was not seamless, which meant Jesse was kept awake throughout the even

  ings until early morning quite frequently. Although I did not work with Jesse from an engineering standpoint, I knew the sales team could rely on him for critical monitoring, performance, and uptime. He is extremely reliable, a fun person to be around, and overall a pleasure to work with.

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  Eillen Voellinger

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  Jesse is not your traditional Unix Systems Administrator. He shaves, he's friendly, easy to talk to, and could explain complex IT topics like RAID 6, or RPM management to a five-year-old (I think...). He was a foundation block in our organization by helping maintain Development, QA and Build envir

  onments, our production servers all while putting out fires always with an extreme sense of urgency. He was always coming up with new ways to manage, integrate and monitor our complex cloud system (expert on things like yum, Puppet, Cacti). I was managing support at the time (for about 4,000 paid accounts), and Jesse continuously made my team's job much easier by providing homegrown tools to automate our processes, reacting to emergencies, and documenting *every* *single* *thing*. I certainly hope to work with him again.

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