<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: comic sans ms,comic sans,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Hi Folks As a new hire at Red Hat, here is a short bio on me: Starting out as an electronic engineer many moons ago, I moved into tech writing after several years when I found out I was a "hybrid" (not my term!). This it transpired meant I was an engineer who liked doing the documentation of a project when it was nearing completion. I preferred writing up overviews of projects to tinkering with transistors or tweaking recalcitrant amplifiers. I have worked as both engineer and tech writer in many industries, including ITC, control systems, encryption, bio-medical, traffic systems, project management, power distribution, wide area networking, health, risk management (in banking!), aerospace and others. Originally from South Africa (Pretoria, Johannesburg, Cape Town), I have lived and worked in Auckland (NZ), Brisbane, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Sydney and now back in Brissy. The past 7 years or so have been contracting roles, hence some of the many industries above! At some stage along the line after my BSc Eng electronics degree, I picked up an equally eclectic set of qualifications, including a Grad Dip in Science (IT and networking), and certificates in electron microscope maintenance, Six Sigma business management, operational risk management, analyzing bank statements (!), and recently a once-off “Crazy Man” award (my fave) for running the Sydney marathon without training. (surely 16km the week before was plenty?). I will be working on OpenStack and will no doubt be bugging all of you good folks with the usual n00b questions. Having relocated a few times in the last few years, my other interests outside work have lagged behind. Some of these include sailing (since I no longer have a boat, only when I can find someone who does, and who needs crew!), bush walking, cycling, radio control gliders/planes (scratch built flying-wing gliders preferably), photography, and trying to keep up with my young kids in whatever new thing they are into. (Minecraft mods for instance, or Portal). And as for clarinet and drums, those used to be hobbies too, but too long ago for me to enter into the “Red Hat's got Talent” comp. (Fortunately!) <div>Regards, Bruce Reeler Content Author Engineering Content Services Email: breeler@redhat.com Phone: +61 7 3514 8100 IRC: brucer Red Hat, Asia-Pacific Pty Ltd Level 1, 193 North Quay, Brisbane 4000 </div> </div></body></html>