I looked, but did not find, a current and appropriate place to post this request. Thank you for reading or gently redirecting me.

I am Wayne Blair and we may have met at past Down East "Summer Slammer & Lobster Bake" events. I'll be there this year too and I need help finding new opportunities. I would like to take my role evangelizing virtualization from renegade to mover-and-shaker mode.

Yes, I am looking for new job opportunities (please see info below) but I'd also like to talk with people in the VM community who understand virtualization in the build/release/installation realm as much more than just access to more machines.

My gut feeling is that the realm of build and release management will morph or evolve into something different once we can see beyond virtualization as just a pool of machine resources. Stage Manager is a step in that direction because VM's now have a promotion model but I think the VM will become a build derivative, artifact, or even the deliverable product. Yes, I might be describing a VM appliance but I think there is something more.

What do you think? Let it percolate for a while and maybe we can chat about it later this month while in our lobster bibs.

Regarding my job search, I'd like to find opportunities with organizations that have seriously embraced and invested in virtualization; I want to move beyond the mind set of cost effective use of physical resources. I am interested in opportunities that are within a 60-minute rush-hour commute of the Nashua, NH area. Below is an elevator speech about me and more information is available via my linked in profile at
www.linkedin.com/in/wayneblair

and my full resume is available at
www.mv.com/ipusers/blair/wb

Thank you for reading and I hope to see you in a few weeks.

Wayne Blair

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Here's the elevator speech
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I'm Wayne Blair, software development tools/build/release/install engineer with extensive experience in development environments, source and build tools, and operating systems and virtualization. I have experience with Agile/XP development environments and infrastructure.

Key highlights from my background include:

• Virtualized development environments for improved utilization of resources, stability, time savings, and development test bed flexibility.

• Migrated diverse SCM repositories to AccuRev to solve numerous constraints with a branch/merge SCM model and created tooling to support waterfall and Agile/XP processes in an AccuRev environment. I am an AccuRev Certified Engineer.

• Designed and implemented Perl tools to extend source control functionality (CVS, RCS, PVCS, and AccuRev) functionality to automate development processes.

• Wrote application and operating system installers with InstallShield, InstallAnywhere, RPM, Bash, Perl, and an Anaconda-like toolkit with dramatic improvements in time, reliability, and supportability.

• Configured and managed development and manufacturing lab hardware, operating systems and networks.

• Operating system sustainability and hardware maintenance experience.