Jim Hall has spent the last 30 years at the intersection of open source technology, and technical writing, contributing to open source projects since the 1990s. Jim spent most of his career in IT, moving up from Unix systems administration to IT leadership roles including CIO in higher education and government. Jim also has enjoyed writing about IT leadership and technology since 2010. Jim is the founder of Technically We Write and Coaching Buttons and has been a regular contributor to Linux Journal, Opensource.com, Enable Sysadmin, Enable Architect, Enterprisers Project, Both.org, and All Things Open where he writes articles about how things work, including programming, Linux, using the command line, and other open source and web development tools and applications