About

Contact Information:

• Email (Work): jason.young@ncsu.edu
• Email (Personal): jasonadamyoung@gmail.com
• Jabber: jayoung@chat.extension.org
• Del.icio.us: jasonadamyoung
• Twitter: jasonadamyoung
• Photos: jasonadamyoung@smugmug

My name is Jason Adam Young and this is my weblog about computing and technology topics and Life as a Systems Manager.

Greatest Hits

If you are looking for my personal, work, and overall philosophy – I recommend checking out:

• Tagged.: Random facts about me in one of those tagged memes
• What did it for you: Early experiences in technology that got me where I am today
• Operator, can you help me place this call: Workplace communication
• Work wide open: Conducting activity in the open
• There’s just life: there’s no “real life” and “online life” – there’s just life
• Why ask why?: Most important question you can ask.
• The “build it” myth: Web sites have nothing to do with “Field of Dreams”
• Priorities: the story of how our pups came to be with us
• To deploy or not deploy: when the going gets rough, the rough rewrite Shakespeare
• I fully admit that I write long emails
• Articles tagged “fun”: because well, life should be. (Bonus: Articles tagged comics)

Work Biography

I am a Senior Information Systems Technologist in the Cooperative Extension division of the NC State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. My position is currently funded via a grant from the National eXtension Initiative where I am the Systems Manager in the Information Technology group of eXtension. We are in the process of building a national repository of information aggregated from sources throughout the land-grant system. My role, as one of my former colleagues has remarked, is to do “stuff”. My stuff mostly consists of project management, information architecture, VMWare, Linux and Macintosh system administration, and web software development (mostly Ruby on Rails).

I am a graduate of NC State, I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, with a research interest in Operating Systems and Information Architecture.

Along the way to the role with eXtension, I’ve worn many different computing hats, including desktop support for a building full of Macs (including an early transition from MacOS System 6 to a then novel operating system known as “System 7″); Windows NT and NetWare consulting for a reseller (where I picked up and let expire MCSE and CNE certifications); Unix desktop support, Win32 programming, Windows integration for academic labs at NC State, and just under 5 great years as the Systems Group Manager for the ITECS division of the College of Engineering at NC State University.

Outside of work, I enjoy road trips and spending time with my wife, reading, and photography.

Site Disclaimer

This web site represents my own personal and professional opinion. It does not represent the official position of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, eXtension or NC State University, even if it sometimes should.