Dr. Dave Blunt heads GroundWork's professional services organization and is the "go-to" person for GroundWork Monitor deployment, modification and management for large, distributed environments. Dr. Dave has always been involved with infrastructure monitoring since early in his career and appreciated the GroundWork approach to open source to resolve large-environment problems.
Dr. Dave also enjoys coding as much as working with customers. Many of GroundWork's innovations and contributions around monitoring the Windows environment come from Dr. Dave and his team. Other innovations include GroundWork Monitor extensions that include NMS modules and the parent-child and parent-standby servers. They are often used for assistance with release testing and facilitating code fixes to other open source projects.
Lastly, Dr. Dave manages GroundWork's partner certification and training program.
Prior to GroundWork, Dr. Dave gained over 10 years of professional service and IT Management experience at BEA Systems, Virage and CMP Media. Dr. Dave has a Ph.D. in Chemistry and a B.Sc. from University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Home Town: Christchurch, New Zealand
Past: Operations or IT Manager at BEA Systems, Virage and CMP Media
Hobbies: Running, woodworking, and playing the French Horn
Email: dblunt at groundworkopensource dot com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/daveblunt