Linuxcare Appoints Douglas C. Nassaur as Chief Information Officer
Sep 28th, 00:24 UTC
Nassaur brings 17 years of information technology and operations
experience, most recently as Vice President, Technical Operations, for
E*TRADE Technologies
SAN FRANCISCO, September 28, 1999-Linuxcare, Inc., the first company to
offer comprehensive Linux technical services to the Global 1000, announced
today the appointment of Douglas C. Nassaur as Chief Information Officer.
Nassaur brings 17 years of information technology and operations
experience, most recently as Vice President, Technical Operations, for
E*TRADE Technologies.
"Linuxcare has built the world's leading team of Linux and Open Source
technology experts, and has fostered a unique company culture they thrive
in," said Fernand Sarrat, president and CEO of Linuxcare. "We're excited
that Doug has joined Linuxcare to help us build the world's best technology
infrastructure for scalable delivery of customer services for Linux and
Open Source software."
In his previous position, Nassaur was responsible for the architecture,
development, and implementation of E*Trade's award-winning global financial
services network. At E*Trade, Nassaur successfully built and directed a
world-class technology management team supported by 200 engineers and
technologists.
"The Internet has dramatically raised customers' expectations for the
quality and speed of service delivery," said Douglas Nassaur. "Linuxcare is
the leading services company in the Linux space. I look forward to helping
Linuxcare build a superior service delivery infrastructure that exceeds
customer expectations, and scales to keep pace with growing worldwide
demand."
Prior to E*Trade, at Holiday Inn Worldwide/BASS PLC, Nassaur directed the
daily engineering, operation, and support of distributed systems for
corporate offices, reservation centers, and 3,000 hotels around the world.
This included the architecture and management of data warehouses, Internet
hosting farms, reservation systems, PeopleSoft installations, and corporate
enterprise computing. Nassaur led the development of 24x7 support services,
and built an infrastructure responsible for dramatically improving the
customer service quality.
Previously, at BellSouth.net, Nassaur led a team of more than 100 employees
and contractors in the successful management of the company's
Internet/intranet services, help-desk operations, corporate service
delivery, and billing systems. Before this, Nassaur held senior-level
technology management positions at GTE Mobilnet, E.R. Carpenter Company,
and Signet Banking Corporation.
About Linuxcare, Inc.
Linuxcare, Inc. is the leading provider of Linux services-including
technical support, professional services, education, and product
certification-for Global 1000 companies. Linuxcare supports all major
distributions of Linux on all major platforms, offering a variety of
programs including 24x7 enterprise-class telephone support. With funding
from Kleiner Perkins and others, Linuxcare counts Dell Computer, IBM, and
Sun Microsystems among its strategic partners. The company hosts
www.linuxcare.com, the world's leading online technical-support resource
for Linux. Founded in 1998, Linuxcare is headquartered in San Francisco,
Calif. The company can be reached at 888-LIN-GURU (+01-415-354-4878) and at
www.linuxcare.com
. Japanese information regarding Linuxcare services is now
available through jpinfo@linuxcare.com
.
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Linuxcare and the Linuxcare logo are service marks, and "At the center of
Linux" is a trademark of Linuxcare, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of
Linus Torvalds. All other trademarks are acknowledged.
(Submitted by Dwight Johnson of Linux Today)
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