[us-marketing] Introductions

 Hi Folks!

Figured I would go ahead and introduce myself to the list as well.

My name is Jeff Causey and I live in NC.  I'm a CPA and currently 
working as the CFO for a public housing authority.  In the past I worked 
as an assistant county manager and a couple stints as town manager (all 
in NC).  In all of these positions, but especially my current position 
and the county position, besides handling all the classic CFO stuff, I 
effectively had CIO duties assigned to me.  I've also volunteered with 
several organizations including stints as a board member and a variety 
of officer positions (e.g. vice chair, chair).  Outside of work, most of 
my time goes toward my kids and their activities (e.g. team manager for 
soccer team) or another of my hobbies, my MINI.  During the 90's I spent 
a lot of time doing on-line sim racing (which is probably why I got 
fairly decent with my computer skills - back in the day it was a 
challenge to build from scratch a fast gaming machine and tweak a low 
latency 'net connection).

I discovered OOo circa 2003 when I started toying with Linux.  Really 
liked using it - even back in the 1.x version days it was more stable 
than MSO for the work I was doing.  Probably around 2005 I pretty much 
switched over to OOo exclusively at both work and home, though at my job 
now I am occasionally forced to use MSO (usually due to files sent by 
HUD).  My hope though is to eventually switch the organization over to 
something else (now LibO!) and maybe even get us onto a Linux solution 
for the desktop (a lot of Windows lock-in issues to deal with though).

Not sure how long ago, but I got hooked up with the marketing project 
for OOo.  It was about the only place I could find that I thought I 
could contribute some actual skills.  With this latest change, guess 
I'll be trying to contribute as I can for LibO.

Finally, glad to see that we have a dedicated US marketing list.

Jeff

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Jeff Causey


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