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Contegix Welcomes Justin Brown

Jason Smith — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:22:59 +0000

We are excited to announce the newest addition to the Contegix team, Justin Brown. Justin is our newest Technical Engineer who will be working on our engineering team.

Justin Brown – Technical Engineer

Justin will help us continue our commitment to providing excellent technical solutions and superior customer service to our clients. Welcome aboard Justin! We are excited to have you join the Contegix family.

Contegix Welcomes New Staff

Jason Smith — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:44:42 +0000

We are very excited to welcome two new members to the Contegix family today. Today we welcome Jason Alvey and Andrew Kettmann as the newest members of the Contegix team.

Jason Alvey – Director of Client Technical Support

Jason Alvey joins Contegix as the Director of Client Technical Support and will be managing our technical support operations and the Contegix engineering team.

Andrew Kettmann – Technical Specialist

Andrew Kettmann joins Contegix as the newest member of our engineering team and will be another Technical Specialist added to our engineering team.

Welcome aboard to both of you!

Time For A New Contegian

Jason Smith — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:14:33 +0000

Contegix is proud to announce the addition of Jack Roper to our staff this week as a Technical Specialist. We are excited to have Jack join our group of talented engineers. Welcome to the Contegix team Jack!

Jack Roper – Technical Specialist

Contegix New Hire

Jason Smith — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:07:00 +0000

Contegix is happy to announce another new hire to our top-notch technical team. Chad Storm joins us today as a Technical Engineer. Chad has a strong background in open source technologies and we are excited to have him join the Contegix family.

Chad Storm – Technical Engineer

New Contegian: Keith Celeslie

Jason Smith — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:44:36 +0000

Contegix is proud to announce the latest addition to our fantastic team. Keith Celeslie joins us today as the newest member of our technical engineering group. We are excited to add Keith as another technical resource for our clients. Welcome aboard Keith!

Keith Celeslie – Technical Specialist

Jason Gutenschwager Joins Contegix as Senior Vice President of Operations

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:20:07 +0000

The Contegix team is proud to announce that Jason Gutenschwager joined as senior vice president of Operations! He is responsible for the management and oversight of our rapidly growing client services and global data center operations.

Jason has been in the industry for nearly 15 years, where he has held several senior-level management positions at network- and hosted-application companies. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Washington University in St. Louis and continued his education to earn a Master of Science degree in computer science from Washington University School of Engineering & Applied Science.

Adding Jason to our team further strengthens our No. 1 commitment to you – to provide excellent and unparalleled service to our clients and continuously look for new ways to improve – so we can help you remain a leader within your industry. Our passion to offer the best support and most innovative, customized service drives us to earn your business each day.

Please let us know about your company’s good news. We’ll share it with everyone we know!

Wishing you continued personal and professional success,

The Contegix Team

Meet the Contegians: Mark Rogers

Jason Smith — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:43:19 +0000

Here at Contegix we take pride in the superb team of technical engineers we have on staff. We have a great team of dedicated engineers who truly enjoy the work they do each and every day for our customers. We have a team of superstars, and we thought some of our customers might be interested in learning a bit more about what makes our engineers really tick. Therefore, we give you the opportunity to “Meet the Contegians” through Q&A sessions with our engineering staff.

First up, Mark Rogers, technical support lead.

Mark, where we you born?

St. Louis, MO

What is your favorite open source project?

Pylot, www.pylot.org. I’m pretty biased though, considering I’ve contributed code to it in the past, and I am listed as a contributor. It is a sweet load testing application that works in Windows or Linux though. It is definitely worth checking out if you ever need to do some load testing.

What is your favorite Linux tool?

There are a few items in the land of Linux that firmly cement me in my operating system of choice. Some I can get elsewhere I suppose, but I can’t live without Klipper, Grep, and BASH. Sure, I can get most of these in OSX, except for Klipper. I know there are knock-offs available, and that I could install the KDE stack if I had to, but it’s just not the same. Klipper managing my clipboard is the best tool I’ve ever used. With how much copying and pasting I do in my day-to-day life, it’s nice to see the last 300 or so items that I’ve highlighted on a whim. It comes in handy just way too often.

What is your favorite operating system?

I’m a big fan of Ubuntu. It’s stable, has deep repositories, and has a ton of community support. At work I need a distro that is stable, but I also need to be able to install random, off-the-wall packages at times for the various needs I have at work. Plus, I love to play with new applications all the time as well. The chances of finding an RPM seem to always be small, but finding Debs is generally easy.

What do you like to do in your spare time?

Well, I blog www.f4ntasmic.com and like to write code. My personal language of choice is Python, and thus I’ve been playing with Django a LOT lately.

Any personal projects you are currently working on that you would like to talk about?

Well, when I was learning Python I decided to write an application that wraps the Confluence Remote API’s xmlrpc calls. It is actually handy at times since just about anything you can do in Confluence; you can do via this application remotely. You can add users, remove users, update posts, add new posts, and so on. This can all be done without ever loading a browser. You can find it at Confluence Remote Manager.

What are you currently running system-wise?

I’m running an Acer Aspire right now. Specs are as follows:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHZ
3GB of RAM
250G hard drive
Nvidia GeForce 9500 (I think. I could be wrong, but its’ nice.)

What books, magazines, and journals are you currently reading?

I’ve had a subscription to PC Gamer for about five or six years now, so I’m always reading that. Even though it’s recently jumped the shark in my opinion with this new EIC. Bring back the editorial columns please!!! Not really reading any books right now. I have a stack of Ruby books I need to read, along with some stuff on PyGame. They’re just staring at me, begging to be read. If only I could just suck the knowledge out via osmosis or something.

What was the last book you read?

Python Web Development with Django. It was a decent read, and it got me rolling with Django. The online docs for Django are great and all, but I learn so much better from books. Plus, this was one of the few books already updated for Django 1.0.

What is your favorite book of all time?

Fahrenheit 451. Amazing book, terrible movie. I personally feel everyone should read the book at least once, so that they can see the dangers of law by opinion and censorship in general.

What music and movies do you enjoy?

I enjoy all sorts of music genres like rap, death metal, hair metal, anything from the 80’s, a bit of country, some pop, and other random stuff. My favorite bands in rotation right now though are the White Stripes, 3OH!3, and Mindless Self Indulgence (only their first CD.) Movie –wise I enjoy most of the David Lynch films (Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway), and other movies that tend to make me think. That’s not to say I don’t love mindless comedies and action flicks though. I’m a huge fan of parody movies like Scary Movie, Airplane, Naked Gun, etc.

What was the last movie you saw?

Yes Man with Jim Carrey. Pretty funny overall. It’s Liar Liar, but this time he has to say, “Yes” to everything instead of not lying. Incredibly original and creative. ☺

What is your favorite movie of all time?

That’s tough. It’s one of three:

SLC Punk
The Jacket
Pulp Fiction

I don’t think I could pick just one.

What was the last concert you attended?

It’s been awhile since I’ve been to a concert. I think the last one might have been Nine Inch Nails like eight or nine years ago.

What is your favorite band of all time?

If I had to pick just one, it would be Nine Inch Nails.

What do you like most about working at Contegix?

I get to play with random cool technology just about every single day. I never know what the day has in store for me, and for the most part, no two days are the same. It helps keep life rather interesting.

What do you like most about our customers?

That’s a tough question. Customers are so unique, that it is hard to find a global reason on why I like all of them. We are home to some major open source projects and players, and I love that. I love to see customers building a business with open source software, and to contribute to the open source community in the process. We also have customers that are building applications that you can see the potential in, and that I find myself browsing at times. I guess I just enjoy that a lot of our customers are very creative and seem to be living the dream of doing what they enjoy. I’m glad to be a part of that in whatever capacity that might be.