Penn State MacAdmins Conference Team 2012
Justin Elliott
IT Manager, Developer - Classroom and Lab Computing (Pennsylvania State University)
Justin is one of the founding members of MacEnterprise.org. He has enjoyed working on Macs and UNIX for over 19 years, and as a Mac/Unix systems admin since 1995.
In 1999, he completed his Masters Degree in Computer Science and began working as a Senior Research Programmer at Penn State University.
At Penn State, he is the IT Manager of the Macintosh and Linux teams for the Classroom and Lab Computing public student computing labs. He is also a software developer and systems admin. He created and continues to develop "PSU Blast Image Config," a freeware system image restore utility which is used to build and configure all of the 600+ lab Macs at Penn State.
Justin and his teams maintain Mac and Linux servers that run many services such as Web, Radmind, and PSU's streaming video server that supports the faculty and students.
He loves his wife, airplanes, vintage computing, and building retro arcade systems.
Brett Gross (Apple)
Senior Systems Engineer, Apple Inc.
Brett Gross is a Senior Systems Engineer with Apple, Inc. Formerly a sysadmin at a local Big10 university, Brett has been working with educational institutions in Pennsylvania and West Virginia since 2000. With the rapid adoption of Mac OS X and understanding the need of IT departments Brett has been presenting on deploying and managing Mac OS X every Spring for more than 5 years.
Jeremy Hill
Programmer/Analyst, Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness (Pennsylvania State University)
Jeremy has been working with Macs in one form or another in the Penn State environment since 2001. He started as Mac desktop support for the ITS Financial Services office (CAC Business Office back then) and has migrated his way to his current position. He's part sys admin, part programmer, part web developer and full on systems integrator. He authored and/or maintained many of ITS' central service interfaces and many parts of the systems behind them including: Access Account Info Panel, User Managed Groups Management Utility, Keytab Generator and PASS Quota Utilities. He worked with the team to develop a strategy for allowing Macs to bind to the ACCESS.PSU.EDU AD realm for complete integration into that environment. He recently moved to a position in the Penn State Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness, where he is currently responsible for their online presence, knowledge database and any/all programming projects.
He earned a Bachelor of Philosophy (not a B.S. in Philosophy) degree from Penn State in 2006, focused on Computer Science and Information Technology along with Social and Cognitive Psychology disciplines. His work purpose is to try to design systems to match the way people think.
Jeremy's interests (other than all things computing) include: motorcycles, baseball, golf, motorsports, music and spending time with his family
Rusty Myers
Systems Administrator- Classroom and Lab Computing (Pennsylvania State University)
Rusty is an Apple Systems Administrator in the Classroom and Lab Computing group at Penn State University. He has been involved in systems management at Penn State since 2004. Rusty is responsible for managing the deployment and maintenance of Apple systems for the public Labs at Penn State.
He has also helped present systems management tools for the MacAdmins group at PSU. Rusty enjoys all aspects of Mac systems life cycle management. He is currently working with radmind, Bigfix, and other tools to maintain lab machines. Rusty also has worked extensively with package creation tools and DeployStudio to automate deployment of new systems.
Other presentations include IT851: DeployStudio for MacWorld 2011, Packaging, Imaging, and Deployment sessions for PSU MacAdmins Conference 2010. Other presentations include a BigFix review and an introduction to TSM Backup Check for the PSU MacAdmins meetings.
Website: http://rustyisageek.blogspot.com/ Twitter: @thespider
Dave Test
Group Leader - Technology Classroom Support (Pennsylvania State University)
Dave is Group Leader for the Technology Classroom Support group at Penn State's University Park campus, supporting 240 PCs and 70 Macs in over 360 classrooms. He is the technical lead for Penn State's student response system. Dave is also a vintage computing enthusiast, with a particular love for Commodore and Amiga equipment.
