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Jun. 25, 2025

New site design

Quite a while ago I set up this site using Wordpress in conjunction with a static site generator plugin. This was before Jekyll or Hugo had really taken off. Now I’ve migrated off my prior Unix host to Github (with Hugo), using Marcin Mierzejewski’s clean console theme. I like the photos section- especially since I’m not really using Instagram anymore.

Oct. 15, 2018

CTO Introduction to “From Vanguard to Vision”

My CTO Introduction to From Vanguard to Vision from Adobe EduMax 2018, Los Angeles (with Victoria Robinson and Jean Cheng)

Sep. 26, 2018

The Art of Retiring IT Services (CSG)

A talk on The Art of Retiring IT Services, presented at the Common Solutions Group Meeting 18.09, in Charlottesville, VA

Sep. 26, 2018

Halfway Digital (CSG)

My talk Halfway Digital from the workshop “IT′s Role in Digital Transformation Workshop”, presented at the Common Solutions Group Meeting 18.09, in Charlottesville, VA

Apr. 30, 2018

CTO Introduction to UC Berkeley's Mobile Platform (Arts+Design Mobile Think Tank)

The CTO Introduction to Berkeley’s Mobile Platform, to open the Arts+Design 2018 Mobile Think Tank at UC Berkeley.

Apr. 26, 2017

Cloud Ready: A Cloud Strategy for the Rest Of Us (Internet2 Global Summit)

Cloud Ready: A Cloud Strategy for the Rest Of Us, Internet2 Global Summit 2017 (session facilitator with Bob Flynn who designed the “Conundra” game, and Oren Sreebny)

Jan. 20, 2017

Singularization, or What The Art of Basquiat Tells Us about the Consumerization & Commoditization of IT (CSG)

Talk on Singularization, or What The Art of Basquiat Tells Us about the Consumerization & Commoditization of IT, Common Solutions Group Meeting, Tempe AZ

Oct. 28, 2016

Goodbye Datacenter, Hello Cloud (Educause)

Goodbye Data Center, Hello Cloud!, EDUCAUSE 2016 Annual Conference

Jan. 13, 2016

Security in the Cloud @ UC Berkeley (CSG)

Talk - Security in the Cloud @ UC Berkeley, from the Common Solutions Group, January 2016 at Rice University, Houston TX.

[This was a second version with some expanded slides and more time for discussion due to interest (and lack of enough time on the agenda at the prior meeting).]

Jan. 16, 2015

Short Discussion: Cloud Security @ UC Berkeley (CSG)

Talk: Security in the Cloud @ UC Berkeley, Common Solutions Group Meeting, UC Berkeley

Jan. 14, 2015

Moving To Continuous (DevOps and the Berkeley Desktop) (CSG)

MY talk Moving To Continuous (DevOps and the Berkeley Desktop),from the January 2014 meeting of the Common Solutions Group at UC Berkeley.

May. 6, 2011

Breaking Through the Barriers to Enterprise Standardization, Without All the Pain (Educause)

Talk: Breaking Through the Barriers to Enterprise Standardization, Without All the Pain, EDUCAUSE 2011 Enterprise and Information Technology Conference. This was one of the first talks I gave at a conference.