Leeland Artra
Contact Organization: Nintendo of America Location: Seattle, Washington Phone: (206)380-2036 Email: lartra@GreyDragon.COM Will travel: Anywhere Payment required: All offers
Bio: Leeland is a regularly invited speaker for SANS, SAGE and USENIX on database administration and security topics, systems & network security, hacking, programming for SAs, Java programming, version control systems and systems administration. He has personally designed and implemented a number of new computer technologies. Currently Leeland's efforts are on creating a new technologies to store, access, mine, and analyze information to improve Nintendo of America's operations and services. Leeland Artra started and sold a DNS and web hosting provider company that had grown to over 5000 clients. In the late 1990s he was the Director of Computer Systems Technology for the Cell System Initiative (CSI) at the University of Washington. CSI was a combined biological research program and information systems research & development program focused on bringing the power and technologies available in today's computer industry to the biology research laboratory environment. The primary goal of the information systems research component of CSI is to develop an optimal computing environment for collaborating, distributed groups of biologists. Prior to that Leeland was the Senior Researcher for the Cellworks Project at the University of Washington (CWP). The CWP had nearly the same goals as CSI and at CWP Leeland was the inventor of numerous database Java technologies. One of which was the Moulage System, which was highly recognized as an important research step in data mining and sharing. The Moulage System was nominated by Oracle for the Computer World Smithsonian 1998 award and became one of the finalists for that award. Prior to that Leeland designed and built the data center for the ITER project. Leeland was also named an Oracle Futures Development Partner for Oracle version 8.
Posted: Oct 4, 2006 03:32:49 PM; Last change: Oct 4, 2006 03:32:57 PM
Talks
Oracle Administration for Systems Administrators Secure Systems Administration, through attacking yourself Version Control & Synchronization, Tricks & Traps Chief Executive Officer of Diddly Squat Effectively Standing Out Make Your Time Surviving Office Politics The Art of Documentation
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