Trent Hein  (M1, T1)  is chief network architect at XOR Network Engineering. He worked on the 4.4 BSD port to the MIPS architecture at Berkeley, and is co-author of the UNIX Systems Administration Handbook.

Brad Johnson  (S9)  is a well known authority in the field of distributed systems. He has participated in seminal industry initiatives including the Open Software Foundation, X/Open, and the IETF, and has published often about open systems. At SystemExperts Brad has led numerous security probes for major companies, revealing significant unrealized exposures. Prior to joining SystemExperts, Brad was one of the original members of the OSF DCE Evaluation Team, the group that identified, evaluated and selected technology to become the industry's first true interoperable middleware.

William LeFebvre  (M9, M12, T6)  is an author, programmer, teacher, and systems administration expert. William has been using UNIX and Internet technologies since 1983 and teaching tutorials since 1989. He has written many articles on UNIX, networking and systems administration issues. Currently he is a columnist for UNIX Review, writing the monthly "Daemons & Dragons" column. William is also the editor for the SAGE series Short Topics in System Administration. William has contributed to several widely used UNIX packages, including Wietse Venema's logdaemon package. He is also the primary programmer for the popular UNIX utility, top.

Evan Marcus  (M2)  is a Senior Systems Engineer and High Availability Specialist with VERITAS Software Corporation. Evan has more than 12 years of experience in UNIX Systems Administration. While working at Fusion Systems and OpenVision Software, Evan worked to bring the first High Availability software application for SunOS and Solaris to market. Evan has authored several articles and talks on the design of High Availability Systems.

Stuart McRobert  (T9)  is the Network Systems analyst in the Department of Computing at Imperial College in London, where he has recently designed and installed a multi-Gigabit Ethernet backbone, and along with his colleagues manages Sun SITE Northern Europe, a 300+GB mirror archive. Stuart has spoken at several USENIX conferences and user group meetings both in the USA, Australia and Europe.

Mark Mellis  (T8)  is a consultant, specializing in system and network administration. Previously he was a senior engineer at Network Computing Devices where he was the technical lead of the UNIX and network administration group. He is a featured columnist in the USENIX Association magazine, ;login:.

Evi Nemeth  (M1, T1)  a faculty member in computer science at the University of Colorado, and has managed UNIX systems for the past 20 years, both from the front lines and from the ivory tower. She is co-author of the UNIX System Administration Handbook.

Hal Pomeranz  (T12)  Hal Pomeranz is the founder and technical lead of Deer Run Associates, a firm specializing in system and network connectivity and security solutions. He has been active in the system and network management/security field for over ten years, and is a regular speaker and organizer for technical conferences and professional gatherings. Hal is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the USENIX Association and is President of BayLISA, the Bay Area professional society for System and Network Administrators.

 
Alphabetical Listing of Tutorial Instructors:
[Allman-Christiansen]   [Cox-Galvin]   [Hein-Pomeranz]   [Powell-Vixie]