People
Director
Shay Dakan has provided effective leadership and administrative services to the University since 1996. Her expertise has been instrumental with strategic and tactical planning; financial, technical, and usage forecasting, engineering, and all necessary operations requirements for maintaining the integrity of both voice and data networks.
As current Director of OSU Network Services, Shay administers the following work units: Telecommunications, Network Engineering, Inter-institutional Converged Exchange Network Operations Center (iNOC), and the Open Source Laboratory. Together, these teams provide a wide range of network and computing services to the entire OSU community, both on-campus and at off-site locations.
Associate Director, Network Services
Jon Dolan is a 38 year old native Oregonian and the Associate Director for Network Services at Oregon State University. Jon holds a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Oregon State and has worked for the University for 19 years serving in various Information Technology positions. As Associate Director, he provides leadership in IT topics including campus wide data and telephone networking, core network applications such as the University's Email system, and the University's Open Source Lab.
He and his wife of 8 years, Debra, live in Corvallis where they own a ranchette and live a life of servitude to 7 organic layer hens, 3 horses, 2 cats, and a black lab named Libby.
Jon can be reached at jon-dot-dolan-at-oregonstate-dot-edu
Operations Manager
Jeff Sheltren is the Operations Manager of the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. Jeff comes to the Lab from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he was a Senior Systems Administrator and Programmer for the Computer Science department. Jeff was elected to serve as a member of Fedora's Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) Steering Committee in 2007. He currently maintains a number of packages for the Fedora Project and EPEL, and is a member of the QA team for CentOS.
When he's not working with Open Source communities, you can usually find Jeff on his road bike. In July of 2009 he will attempt to complete the Death Ride.
Jeff can be reached at jeff-at-osuosl-dot-org
Infrastructure Architect
Lance Albertson joins the Oregon State University Open Source Lab as the Infrastructure Architect bringing extensive experience in large scale academic computing environment and Open Source Community involvement. Lance comes to the lab from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas where he was responsible for over 30,000 faculty/staff and student email and system accounts as well as serving as the advisor for the Linux Users Group. Lance's involvement in the Open Source Community started in 2003 with the Gentoo Linux distribution. As a leader within the Gentoo Community, Lance has served on the Foundation, has held the position of Operational Manager for the Infrastructure team, and is a developer and maintainer for several core infrastructure packages.
Lance can be reached at lance-at-osuosl-dot-org
Public Sector Communities Manager
Deborah Bryant is Public Sector Communities Manager at Oregon State University's Open Source Lab (OSL), where she advocates and creates collaboration between public, private and academic concerns in pursuit of the successful adoption of open source technology and models. She leads OSL's production of the annual Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON).
Deborah's interest in open source and its implication for government is reflected in her civic involvement; she serves as a Board Director for DemocracyLab.org; on the Board of Advisors for the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation; on the Oregon Statewide Distance Learning Advisory Council.
Prior to entering the public sector, Deborah held management positions in several emerging technology areas; parallel and high-speed computing and commercialized internet and web applications in the 80s, commercial wide area networks, advanced telecommunications and data/voice convergence in the 90s.
Deb can be reached at deborah-at-osuosl-dot-org
Developer
John's first programming experience came from the Rockey Lab where he wrote PERL scripts to facilitate their genomic research. Having completed his BS in Microbiology, he now pursues a degree in Computer Science and a career in programming for biological research applications. His current project at the OSL is a partnership with the OSU Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics regarding protein searching by structural queries.
John was also involved with maintenance and content updates for the GOSCON website in 2008.
Community Systems Administrator
Rudy is a part time student systems administrator for the Open Source Lab's infrastructure team. He has been focusing on database administration with MySQL and PostgreSQL, and administrating and configuring Trac instances. He also manages the installation/administration of various web applications. His experience with Linux spawned with his love for Quake and QuakeWorld in the late 1990's and has been growing since then.
Community Systems Administrator
Russell is currently a sophomore working on a degree in Computer Science. In addition to his interest in Open Source Software, he enjoys spending time outdoors and with friends. When confronted with repetitive tasks he likes to think of ways to automate them, and frequently spends hours tinkering with scripts only to find that they save only minutes.
Community Systems Administrator
Brian Henderson enjoys working with hardware and seeing people put it to
good use. He is currently studying Computer Science at OSU.
In his spare time, he enjoys video games and live sound reinforcement.
Community Systems Administrator
Ben is a community systems administrator for the OSL. He is responsible for the public PowerPC Development resources(PowerDev) sponsored by the OSL, as well as the availability and performance of enterprise monitoring systems. In his spare time he enjoys developing software for embedded Linux platforms, creating electric vehicles, and hacking on hardware. Ben is a junior in Computer Science with a specialization in Business. One of his goals is to incrementally integrate synergistically combined Web 2.0-paradigms with web analytics to create horizontally scalable enterprise solutions.
Lead Software Engineer
Peter is a full time Analyst Programmer leading a variety of software projects for the OSL. He has been professionally developing software for over 8 years. His primary areas of expertise are object oriented design, data modeling, and application architecture. His language of choice is Python but he is also experienced in Java, C++ and numerous other languages.
Peter's current project's include Protein Geometry Database a tool aiding biochemistry research, and Pydra a clustered computing solution for Python. Past projects have included software for One Laptop Per Child and Helix Media Player.
Peter can be reached at peter-at-osuosl-dot-org
Project manager
Greg has spent the last 15 years working on various telecommunications and distance education projects within the State of Oregon. Greg's current project is building online teaching and learning tools for the Oregon Department of Education's Oregon Virtual School District project.
You can read more on Greg's blog at http://blogs.osuosl.org/gchaix.
When not at a keyboard, Greg is often found on two wheels playing BikeFriz.
Greg can be reached at gchaix-at-osuosl-dot-org
Developer
Rob is a junior at Oregon State University studying computer science. He has developed a continually-growing passion for open source software, and hopes to eventually work as a software developer for Google.
His hobbies include learning more about Linux and other open source technologies, riding his motorcycle, watching and criticizing film and shows with his friends, walking, hiking, biking, reading, and listening to music.
Community Systems Administrator
Ian is a student systems administrator for the Open Source Lab and a junior studying Electrical and Computer Engineering His secondary foci of study include Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics. Ian is aiming to complete minors in the former two fields.
Ian can be reached at ian_milligan-at-osuosl-dot-org
Developer
Brad is a student developer for the OSL. He is currently a Sophomore pursuing a degree in computer science.
If Brad could offer any advice to aspiring programmers out there, it would be these words of wisdom...
"When you fail at something, especially when you are first learning, everyone tells you to "get back on the horse." But think carefully about that. If you were the horse, would you let some guy you just bucked off get right back on you? No way! If I were the horse, I would just keep bucking. Because even if I had no reason to, it would just be a matter of principle..."
"So the moral of the story is: Don't play the horse's games. Hack the horse and make it play yours :)"
Developer
Ani has been working at the OSL for almost 2 years. She is currently majoring in computer science with a minor in international studies. She is working on Django-based projects for the lab.
Developer
Josh is currently working as a student developer for the lab; he will be graduating in the spring of 2009 with a bachelors degree in computer science (computer systems option) and a Japanese minor. Josh is currently working with the collaborative software foundation on the TriSano project, a disease management application for the Center for Disease Control. His other interests include music, games, and humor.
Developer
Oskar is a student developer for the OSL. He is pursuing a bachelor's degree in computer science and is currently working on the printing system for the OLPC project. Oskar's other pursuits in life include backpacking, cycling, and brewing.
