Jared Ottley

My name…Jared Ottley (well duh /=).

I am a Technical Consultant for Alfresco, an Open Source Software start-up, which develops an Enterprise Content Management Platform.  Beyond helping with Alfresco implementations, I also help provide training.  I worked with Ingres on developing their Alfresco appliance and with Canonical on the initial release of the Alfresco Community package for Ubuntu.  I started at Alfresco as a Solutions Engineer in 2007.

Prior to working for Alfresco, I was a Software QA Engineer at Novell. I worked on the OES Integration Test Team as the Linux Technical Lead , QA testing components and features of Netware, OES 1 & 2 and SLES 10. I covered storage aspects of those products (Netware: Hardlinks, NFS APIs, Byte Range and Cross-Protocol Byte Range Locks, OPLocks; OES Linux: NSS Hardlinks, NSS NFS APIs, NSS VFS, NSS xAttr; SLES10: Mulitpath and Storage Management). I also worked on install, configuration, virtualization with XEN, LUM (Linux User Management), Patching and Updates, and Dynamic Storage Technologies (Shadow Volumes).

I enjoy working from home and split time between work, a wife, six kids, two dogs and an ever growing honey-do list.

I like to play chess and go. I an avid music fan…anything from punk to folk, and even a little bit of Hip Hop. I’ve recently taken up photography and like to spend time learning not just the art of photography but the tools for editing and managing the images.

In a previous life I worked as a J2EE Developer/ Architect for the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana. While employed by the Federal Courts I also worked as Internet Administrator (Webmaster/Sysadmin for about 50+ different Federal Courts websites), on the Help Desk and as a PC Technician.

I have a degree in Political Science with a minor in  Philosophy from BYU, where I studied the use of the Internet as a Campaign Tool in Congressional Elections.

Greater detail of my work experience can be seen on my resume.