James Turnbull
VP of Technology Operations, Puppet Labs

@kartar

James Turnbull works for the National Australia Bank as a Security Architect. He is also a member of the Linux Australia executive team and the Treasurer of Linux.conf.au 2008.

He is the author of three books:

• Pulling Strings with Puppet: Systems Administration Made Easy about the Ruby-based Puppet configuration management tool.

• Hardening Linux, which focuses on hardening Linux bastion hosts including the base operating system, file systems, firewalling, connections, logging, testing your security and securing a number of common applications including e-mail, FTP and DNS.

• Pro Nagios 2.0 focuses on enterprise management using the Nagios open source tool.

James has previously worked as an Executive Manager of IT Security at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the CIO of a medical research foundation doing Web-based clinical trials, managing the architecture group of an outsourcing company and in a number of IT roles in gaming, telecommunications and government.

He is an experienced infrastructure architect with a background in Linux, Unix, AS/400, Windows, and storage systems. He has been involved in security consulting, infrastructure design, SLA and service definition and has an abiding interest in metrics and measurement.