Carolyn Rowland

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.

Carolyn Rowland began her UNIX system administration career in 1991 and currently leads an ops/dev team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She credits her success with being able to be the bridge between senior management and technology. Her team has distinguished itself as a leader in the development of new technology solutions that solve business and research problems within the Engineering Laboratory and across the NIST campus.

Linked Presentation: 
Navigating the Business World
Handling the Interruptive Nature of Operations: A World of Squirrels and Shiny Objects