I'm a Husband, Father, Developer, and Teacher! I am currently a teacher within the broadcasting arena, focusing on playout infrastructure and automation elements.

When I'm not working you can find me spending time with the family, 1 wife, 3 children, 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 rabbits and multiple fish... I come to work for a break...

class James
  def initialize
    @name = 'James Rivers'
    @age = 41
    @work = [ 'BTNS', 'Imagine' ]
    @hobbies = [ 'Cooking', 'Faimily Time', 'Learning new things' ]
  end

  def current_location
    'London, England'
  end

  def next_location
    'Ponta Delgada, Portugal'
  end

  def currently
    {
      enrolled: 'Udemy Kubernetes Docker, AWS Certs, CNCF Certs',
      reading: 'Docker Nigel Poulton',
      tinkering: 'Proxmox, LXC'
     }
  end
end

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• 🔭 I am looking to launch an educational channel.
• 🌱 I’m currently learning everything 🤣
• 🥅 2022 Goals: Contribute more to Open Source projects complete AWS training, Docker, K8S and other technologies.
• ⚡ Fun fact: I love to cook!
• 🎥 Love to create with Adobe AE, AI and PP. - https://www.youtube.com/user/1980Rivers/videos

With over 25 years of broadcasting experience, James has covered a number of areas from within the radio & television spectrum.

James has participated in a set of successful global broadcast projects, including milestone project(s) in the UK using cutting edge networking technologies, in which James co designed, deployed and maintained the Global Media Network.

James has spent a season of his broadcasting career working on large European projects either as a Project Manager or Project Engineer for the market leading automation, asset management and control & monitoring systems. James is a qualified Project Manager and Cisco Certified.

James joined the MyImagine Academy team February 2013, with co managerial responsibility for all training services in Imagine EMEA region.

Orbiting market leading automation and monitoring systems from 2010 James was involved in a number of European projects for large corporations at a Project Management level.

James has also held engineering positions encompassing both project and support work for a variety of automation products, this includes D-Series, Morpheus, Versio Automation, ADC automation.

Working for the BBC James took on a number of roles from engineering, network management and product development.

During the last 6-8 years James has worked continuously within the Versio Platform, Versio Servers, Versio Graphics, IOX Storage and Flow (EditShare) ADC product landscapes and holds a wealth of knowledge. Including cloud based systems and deployment tools & models.

James is extremely self driven and continues to build on a strong skill set in the following areas:

• Containers
• Orchestration, both swarm and kubernetes
• Cloud Platform Deliveries, AWS and GCP
• Scripting coding languages, bash, python, go
• Networking with Arista and Cisco
• Virtualization type 1 hyper visors
• SMPTE standards
• Adode After Effects, Premiere Pro, AI

Future achievements include:

• Linux Foundation System Administrator
• AWS DevOps Cert
• GCP Cert
• CNCF Cert

You can find out what James Rivers is getting up to from either of the following areas: linkedin twitter gihub