Management-101
Geoff Halprin
Topic: Soft Skills
Audience: Intermediate/Advanced
Description:
As system administrators mature in their knowledge and responsibilities,
they come to rely on a number of "soft skills" to help them in their
jobs. This tutorial provides an overview of many diverse areas and provides
tools that assist in communicating effectively with peers, managers, and
other important constituents and users of sysadmin services.
Topics include Management of projects, vendor relationships, people,
time, risks and finance.
History:
SAGE-AU'99 (Sydney) [full-day].
LISA-99 (Seattle) [half-day].
Last change: Sep 16, 2006 04:27:11 PM
The Speaker: Geoff Halprin
Contact Organization: The SysAdmin Group
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Phone: +61-3-9686-3233
Email: Geoff.Halprin@sysadmin.com.au
Website: http://www.sysadmin.com.au
Will travel: Anywhere
Payment required: Fees + Travel
Compensation required: 1500 per day
Other payment info: Fees and expenses for tutorials, travel only for conference papers. Need several months warning for overseas travel.
Bio:
Geoff Halprin is the Principal Consultant at The SysAdmin Group.
He has been a system administrator for the past 15 years, and
a consulting system administrator for over 10.
Geoff specialises in data security and systems management
disciplines, and in the evaluation and improvement of systems
management practices. He has consulted to a wide variety of
organisations, including government, large corporations, and
several major ISPs.
Geoff is also the Vice-President of the System Administrator's
Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU).
Last change: Sep 8, 2006 02:55:12 AM
Other Talks by this speaker
Improving Network Security Through The Use of Host Rings
Managing a Production Environment
The Workflow of System Administration
Systems Management - The Bigger Picture
Auditing - The Unexpected Ally
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