Make Your Time
Leeland Artra
Topic: Soft Skills
Audience: All audiences
Description:
An important step to breaking away from the 'fire fighting' mode of site operations is getting your schedule under control. But, your job is chaos contained. So how can technical people like system administrators or technical support types gain some control? Your time management skills need to be clear, simple, easily to adjust and deal with changes in daily operations.
Time management can seem painfully hard to master and maintain so few SAs bother. The process does not need to be so difficult. But, it does require some skills and knowledge that are hard to learn due to lack of available references and examples. This talk is intended to reverse that and demonstrate easy to use and remember time management skills.
The talk will start with a discussion of the various aspects of time management for a systems administration (or information technologies) people. A short discussion for each hurdle in the way and suggestions for how they can be dealt with appropriately. The talk will then teach the ABC approach to time management and provide a list of sources for further refinement of your new time management skills.
Prerequisites:
none
History:
SANS, SAGE, LISA and local groups have enjoyed and given high marks for both the talk and the topic
Posted: Oct 4, 2006 12:40:28 PM; Last change: Oct 4, 2006 12:43:35 PM
The Speaker: 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
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Oracle Administration for Systems Administrators
Secure Systems Administration, through attacking yourself
Version Control & Synchronization, Tricks & Traps
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Effectively Standing Out
Surviving Office Politics
The Art of Documentation
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