I started in 2010 as a SigOp, not really knowing what that meant except that computers were used. For me, that really meant keeping communications systems running for the people who depended on them. Keeping things running even when they don't seem to want to is still my biggest skill.
Since then I have looked after Oracle and PostgreSQL estates for the federal government and for Sun Life, managed virtualization across private industries, and developed a couple of small tools at home and online that I think are neat. Today I lead enterprise infrastructure and platforms at Medavie: compute, virtualization, Kubernetes, storage and backup, in an environment where reliability is not optional.
My degrees are in history: a B.A., then an M.A. in Digital Humanities at Carleton University, where I wrote The Empire of the Old Bailey Online: Why Zero Matters.
I also write fiction, about topics that I think interest me or where a short idea has popped into my head. None of my short stories are designed to be entire stories from start to finish, rather they are written kind of like chapters from a book where the rest of the pages are all missing. Most of them come from my own experiences or things I observed in the real world that seem to come from another time and place. Thirteen of the stories are in the bay above. I also built and maintain drillteamroutine.com, a simulator for Canadian Armed Forces drill routines.
Matthew Dodd
Toronto, Ontario