Jon M. Dugan
Jon lives in Seattle, WA and generally has more interests than hairs on his head. He has always been interested in how things work and why things are the way they are. By day Jon is a network engineer and by night he finds all manner of ways to get in trouble. Most Saturdays you can find him at Seattle Saturday House.
His professional experience has centered around UNIX like systems, IP networking and programming. His first years in UNIX system administration were at Wolfram Research where he was hired to do SQA but ended up with the root password instead. He spent many years at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, IL first as a student employee, then as a network engineer and finally as a senior network engineer. He recently joined ESnet at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as a network engineer where he is involved in network engineering and tool development.
Jon has been very active with the SCinet committee of SC Conference Series. His involvement began in 1998 in Orlando, FL. He said he wouldn't be involved again in 1999, but he hasn't escaped thus far. He devloped the software used to track all of the internal state for SCinet. This includes booth connection requests, fiber management, IP address allocation and DNS management. This system started as a Perl CGI script, but was then rewritten in Java using the Turbine framework which was in turn ported to Quixote and finally Django. Jon swears that he isn't going to rewrite the software again. Really. In 2005 Jon was the Vice Chair of SCinet which was interesting but not as interesting as being a worker bee.
Jon has always had an interest in graphic design and visual communications and has dabbled in web design. In high school he was very involved in black and white photography. He still enjoys photography but hasn't had as much time for it lately as he would like. He did play around with a Holga recently which was a lot of fun.
He is interested in operating systems research including Plan 9 and TUNES. In the last several years he has become very interested in electronics and embedded systems. He has been exploring the AVR and ARM microcontroller platforms. Recently he has also been learning about Erlang which has a very interesting approach to concurrency.
When not in front of a computer Jon enjoys creating things out of wood and other materials. He hopes to build an acoustic guitar from scratch one day, but for now he'll be happy if he can get the shop under control. He is also not too shabby in the kitchen and enjoys both preparing, talking and especially eating food.
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This site was developed using the Django web framework for the Python programming language. The CSS style is based on Blueprint CSS. The database backend is PostgreSQL and the whole lot runs under the FreeBSD operating system. This colophon is the direct result of reading far too many books published by O'Reilly and Associates. No bits were harmed during the creation of this site, however quite a few were rearranged.