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So, github is a site dedicated to allowing people to 
share code amoungst others and collaborate on projects.  
This includes both simple scripts to complicated 
applications.  It's based around using an application 
called git which does version control with programs.  
It's kewl stuff.  My attempts at programing 
things: http://github.com/jtslear

I work with a group of developers who make 
this application:
https://github.com/ozoneplatform. 
More info here: http://www.ozoneplatform.org.

So, my job is a wide open, jack-of-all-trades type 
of position.  I maintain the servers, network, 
applications, services, users, backups, monitoring, 
and general support that allows the developers 
the capability to develop and test their releases.  
There isn't any heavy network, mostly switch 
management with a couple of VLANs.  And like most 
networks, unless there's a reason for change, it's 
a 'set-it-and-forget-it' situation.  There's about 
7 physical servers and about 150+ virtual servers.  
I'm only actively managing 12 or so virtual 
servers, the rest the developers utilize for their 
own purposes.  A rather small environment, and 
there's only about 40 users doing development.  
There's a large community around it, but they 
don't have access to the environment that I manage.  

There's a suite of applications that are utilized 
for code management and review, ticket tracking, 
file sharing, documenting, authentication services, 
and chat services.  I manage each of those applications 
and extending them where needed/possible.  These 
applications/services run on a mix of windows and 
linux servers, using vmware as the virtualization platform.  

Projects that I've been working on lately have been 
beefing up the monitoring so that I know the status 
of things and catch problems before they become BIG 
problems.  That project is nearly, if not completed.  
I'm also working on utilizeing puppet as a method to 
automate as much as possible.  This is a project that 
is being carried over to development as well such that 
I can help automate the development environment as well 
as the production code that gets deployed.  That project 
just started... Another item I'm involved in is backing up 
all the data and testing restores such that I know that I 
can restore data should there be a serious failure.  
Disaster recovery is tremendous.  I refuse to be 
responsible for loosing something.........

As far as my education background; it started back 
in High School.  Started taking Cisco classes.  
Technically I should've been able to acquire the 
CCNA out of high school, but I know I didn't know 
it enough to pass the exam.  I continued Cisco classes 
at a community college on top of taking general ed classes 
on top of taking classes geared towards system administration.  
In this case I was learning the windows server operating 
system.  I did a community college for 2 years and went 
to Radford to finish a degree in Computer Science with 
a concentration in Networking.  Despite that degree I 
ended up in system administration instead.  Which I 
don't mind it at all.

The IT world is tremendously huge and it may take a 
bit to find the niche that you'd like.