First introduced to hangman on a mini computer playing the William Tell Overture, Robert is a very "old?" school hacker.

Robert discovered Linux after completing several years of much needed therapy overcoming the trauma of programming using punchcards. Eventually, he focused his open source activities on PostgreSQL and has since then worked in everything from mom and pop companies to fortune 50 companies. He has had the singular honor of conducting training at the famed Los Alamos National Laboratory.

After working several years in California's Silicon Valley, he returned to the Pacific Northwest to experience real weather. These days, he is the senior DBA at Zonar Systems, working in the heart of Seattle's downtown core.

Robert presents 2 Events:

• Picking Up the Pieces, Issues And Challenges Controlling Your Data at LinuxFest Northwest 2018

• PostgreSQL: An Introduction to BARMAN at LinuxFest Northwest 2019