Speaker
James Reynolds
Systems/Network Admin, College of Science, School of Biological Sciences
James began using computers back in the Atari 400 and Commodore 64 days. James earned a Bachelor of Music in 1999 from the University of Utah and transitioned from being a graduate student and teaching assistant to managing Mac OS 9 computers at the College of Fine Arts for a year and then at the Marriott Library for 14 years. In the early 2000s, he was part of the MacOSXLabs and MacEnterprise groups that helped make Mac OS X easier to deploy and manage at scale. He has spoken at several conferences, including Apple's WWDC 2005, about things like scripting and deployment methods. He currently is at the College of Science and is embedded in the School of Biological Sciences. He manages Mac systems using Jamf, ESXi servers, and Linux VMs. He presents at the U of U Mac Admins meetings. Since the release of Stable Diffusion in September 2022, James has been spending all of his free time learning and presenting on AI.