Andrew Jorgensen

Andrew Jorgensen is a Linux user, System Administrator, Package Maintainer, and Software Engineer. He has a BS in Information Technology from Brigham Young University and lives in Spanish Fork, UT with his wife and two sons. His non-technology hobbies include cooking, reading, and family.

Andrew works for the Mono Project at Novell, Inc. in Provo, UT as a Software Engineer and Build Manager. At work he programs mostly in Perl but has experience with PHP, C#, Java, C++, and Python.

Andrew is LPIC-2 certified and has most of the experience to back it up, including Apache, BIND, DHCP, Samba, Postfix, OpenLDAP, and RPM to name just a few.

Like most geeks Andrew is a gadget junkie and likes to own odd bits of hardware like magstripe readers, USB phones, and network routers. Someone borrowed his barcode reader a while back, if that’s you please give it back. He’s also into networking and has been known to read protocol specs for fun. Zeroconf and VoIP are of particular interest to him though he hasn’t taken the time to learn Asterisk yet.

Andrew believes in Open Source as a philosophy but won’t call it Free Software ’cause Richard Stallman is way too extreme for his taste. He also won’t call Linux GNU/Linux as it’s not worth fighting about.

Andrew’s first Linux distro was SuSE Linux 6.2 back in 1999 and he no longer dual-boots. He started using GNOME instead of KDE back when their philosophies switched and KDE became the one that had too many configuration options.

Andrew served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island, NY (Spanish speaking) from 1997-99.

You could also read his resume.