About SparseZone

Chris Reece

Chris is a Computer Science graduate and an experienced Senior Systems Administrator and Programmer. Chris' UNIX experience begins in 1992, with AIX v3, and extends over 14 years, through IRIX 5 and 6, SunOS and Solaris, with detours into Mac OS, NT4 and W2K system administration along the way. He's also an Oracle developer, with years of commercial PL/SQL and OCI under his belt. Chris has particular expertise in Network Appliance Data OnTAP, database design and naming services, especially DNS.

In time not taken up by computers, personal projects, house renovation and family life, he enjoys motorcycling, both on- and off-road. He is often to be found elbow-deep in some "vintage" motorcycle or air-cooled Volkswagen. In the rashness of his youth, he transgressed the boundaries of polite bathroom protocol to the detriment of the venerable Wietse Venema, embarrassing only himself. Chris once emigrated to Finland for five days, and the worst year of his life was spent writing fake C++ for real money. Chris is now resident in New Zealand. Wild horses could not drag him away.