Adele Shakal

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

After obtaining her BS in Geochemistry from California Institute of Technology, Adele Shakal’s two-decade path in the IT industry has included webmastering, UNIX systems administration, technical project management, and IT emergency operations planning. She currently leads project and knowledge management at Metacloud, now a part of Cisco, which offers private clouds based on OpenStack. She has presented at local LOPSA chapter meetings and technical conferences including USENIX’s LISA, O’Reilly’s Velocity, and CascadiaIT.

Linked Presentation: 
Workshop 3: Warp-Speed Project Wrangling
Establishing IT Project Management Culture: Nerdherding On the Frontier