Nicole Forsgren Velasquez

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.

Nicole Forsgren Velasquez is considered an expert in the work, tools, knowledge sharing, and communication of technical professionals. Her background spans user experience, enterprise storage, cost allocation, and systems design and development. She has worked with large and small corporations across many industries and government. She holds a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems and a Masters in Accounting from the University of Arizona. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Utah State University.

Linked Presentation: 
Navigating the Business World
R for Sysadmins
Statistics for Ops: Making Sense Out of Data
Winning the Budget Game: How to Get the Money You Need for IT Every Time