DUCK ALIGNMENT ACADEMY - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Principal Program Manager at Red Hat

Ben Cotton is a principal program manager at Red Hat, where he serves as the Fedora Program Manager. Ben has been active in Fedora and other open source communities for over a decade. His career has taken him through the public and private sector in roles that include desktop support, high-performance computing administration, marketing, and program management. In addition to Program Management for Open Source Projects, Ben has contributed to the book Human at a Distance, and to articles in The Next Platform, Opensource.com, Scientific Computing, and more. Ben still lives in Lafayette, Indiana-a city he forgot to leave after graduating from Purdue University with a bachelor of science in synoptic meteorology and a master of science in IT project management. Should you feel brave, you can follow Ben on Twitter, on his personal website, or on LinkedIn.