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MRIC BOARD OF DIRECTOR ELECTIONS |
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BOARD MEMBER ELECTIONS List and bios of the current Board of Directors. Download a copy of MRIC Bylaws. (pdf file) CANDIDATES STATEMENTS (in alphabetical order) Shane Castle I am a recent MRIC member; in fact, my official membership paper was signed at the beginning of October. I have been active with MRIC for several months before, however. My home in Silver Springs, on Sugarloaf Road, is the newest POP in MRIC. It was built with the help of Bill Clark, whom some of you may know, and who has encouraged me to run for the BoD. I have already been active in MRIC in other ways, including taking over many of the tasks formerly done by Mike Lewinski, such as maintaining the OpenBSD systems running on the Single Board Computers at Pine Glade and Lazy Z, upgrading the Cisco IOS on the edge routers, upgrading the firmware on several of the Trango backhaul radios, and monitoring traffic. I will be the one generating the new OS for the SBCs (in fact it may be done by the time of the meeting), and regardless of whether or not I am elected to the BoD I will be continuing these projects. I have lived at my home site for 21 years now, saw the 1989 Black Tiger fire, and have witnessed the growth in the area that US West, and now Qwest, has been unable to accommodate. I feel that MRIC is the best hope of Boulder County mountain residents for fast Internet service. I have a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics, and have been employed by Boulder County since 1985 as a computer and networking engineer. My current title is Network Security Administrator; previously it ranged from Operating Systems Programmer to Unix Systems Administrator, and I have been working with Boulder County's network from its beginnings. I hope to supplement the technical expertise on the Board with my own. Allen Gordon My contributions to the coop besides being one of the founders have been to handle to bookkeeping, billing and accounts payable for over a year. While I have not been terribly active as a board member for the past several months, due to the needs of my day job, I still maintain a strong interest in ensuring that the coop not only survives but thrives. I have some interest in coop security and have written one newsletter article about this and plan on following up with others. I have been employed as a senior software engineer at CableLabs in Louisville for the past 5 years. I am engaged in developing specifications for providing digital cable services for the cable industry and for certifying devices that implement those specifications. Previously I have worked as a software engineer in several companies in Boulder and California. My graduate work was in Physiology and spent a number of years teaching and doing basic research in a medical school in the south. My undergraduate degree was in Electrical Engineering. I switched back to engineering and software development after moving to Boulder in 1979. My name is Allen Gordon. I'm running for a seat on the MRIC Board of Directors and I approve this message! Pete Jensen My background: We live on Magnolia Road (on Forsythe Rock) and we're some of the initial MRIC members. I am a corporate lawyer, focusing on federal securities compliance, business purchases and sales, and general business matters. Prior to its sale in 2003, I was general counsel for a publicly-traded medical products company in Boulder. Before that I was a partner at a Boulder law firm. I'm now doing legal work for a medical products on a consulting basis while I look for a full-time position with a local company. I've dabbled in helping MRIC in the past, as an installer in the early days, and with off and on legal advice over the years. I'm not a techie, but as a corporate lawyer and general counsel I have a lot of experience helping businesses, primarily on the legal and administrative side. I've also had a fair amount of experience in financial oversight. From a business standpoint, this is a critical time for MRIC. MRIC grew out of the vision and energy of a small group of talented and dedicated volunteers. It has grown a great deal and faces the challenges of many small, growing businesses. As I see MRIC right now, there is a need to digest its recent growth and decide what it wants to be (and how it wants to operate) when it grows up. My strength is in strategic planning and business basics, each of which I believe will be important for MRIC in the next two years. I am looking forward to the opportunity to work with the rest of the board to make the next two MRIC years as successful as the last two. Last, but definitely not least, Greg Ching endorses me as a candidate for the board (thanks Greg!). |
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