CANDIDATE FOR DIRECTOR

Æleen Frisch

For me, USENIX and USENIX events are wonderful spaces where people from rather diverse computing arenas can come together, interact, learn from, and even encourage each other. In this way, corporate types can meet with academics, system administrators and researchers can inspire one another and keep each other honest, Open Source/FREENIX and commercial UNIX proponents can exchange ideas, and folks from heterogeneous environments can share solutions with others facing the same challenges. Similar sorts of cross-pollination occur as a result of other USENIX programs (e.g., publications).

SAGE is also very important to me--it was SAGE that first led me to USENIX--and it serves a vital role in the system administration community, most notably in its significant progress in the "professionalization" of system administration.

I would welcome the opportunity to help the organization maintain and build on these strengths, and so I am very happy to accept the nomination to run for Director. If elected, I will be a hard-working Board member. In addition to more than 20 years as a system administrator, I bring substantial experience in strategic planning and in marketing. Over the years, I have worked in a wide variety of corporate settings, from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups.

My specific interests include the following:

• Supporting efforts toward fruitful communication between the academic and corporate worlds, especially in the area of system administration.

• Attracting young people to USENIX by both continuing and strengthening programs aimed at students and working on ways to make the organization's benefits visible and attractive to professionals in the early stages of their careers.

• Working to build bridges to sectors of the community currently outside of the USENIX mainstream, including non-U.S. professionals and folks who work with non-UNIX operating systems.

Biography: Æleen Frisch is currently a system administrator and technical consultant. She is the author of Essential System Administration and several other books on system administration and computational chemistry. She holds a B.S. from Caltech (1979) and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh (1991). She has presented tutorials at a wide variety of conferences in the U.S. and Europe, including the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, LISA, and the Atlanta Linux Showcase. She has also served on two LISA/NT program committees, is currently serving on the LISA '02 program committee, and has also contributed time and energy to USENIX for several other projects.

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