ken’s blog

Well, I have completed my first week in the new job and so far so good It is pretty different environment from what I have worked in the past, but I have enjoyed it so far.

My first project was to get a Blade Center up and running as a Linux Cluster. I love this hardware, it is so great. I had these things at Lilly too, and have always enjoyed working with them. So, the cluster is up and humming away, now I need to work with some folks to get apps running on it.

I have also spent all of my time out of the office packing… I HATE packing. We are moving on December 1st to a slightly bigger house around the corner. It is a nice house and will be much more functional for us. Looking forward to getting the move behind us, but not the moving part
Also getting ready to head to Memphis for turkey day, should be a nice vacation. I just hope Ashlyn behaves for at least most of the trip. I am downloading as many videos I can from our MythTV box to our laptop right now. Need to entertain her I am sure we will be sick of The Wiggles by this time next week
Well, I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

Tomorrow will be my last day @ Lilly, it has been a great job and I have met some cool people. That chapter is over now, and I will be starting a new job this Thursday. I have accepted a position as Director of Computing Infrastructure with Silverback Assets in Chapel Hill. Sounds like a great opportunity and I am really excited about getting my hands on their IBM Blade Center. I have been doing some cool stuff with them for about a year now and love them. Here is the my job description:

Director of Computing Infrastructure
- Procure, install & maintain computing resources
- Author shell scripts and utilities for maintain resources
- Aid in database maintenance and operations
- Work with Quantitative staff to develop tools & utilities
- Promote and maintain code from R&D thru production
- Manage vendors and implementation projects as needed
- Participate on technology committee
- Backup user-support personnel

They are currently working with SUSE, Perl and Postgres.

Got an old buddy of mine from Southern California come to town today. He and I go back like 10 years, it is great to see him again. So I will be pretty busy hanging out with him through the weekend, golf, beer, and story telling!