Gerard Lynch
Treatment Plant Operator
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolGerard Lynch is an experienced treatment plant operator and forestry professional with over 25 years in New Zealand's forest sector and 11 years specialising in timber preservation and hazardous substance management. He combines a Bachelor of Forestry Science and a postgraduate diploma in business/finance to bridge technical forest asset valuation, inventory and sustainable management with commercial and regulatory acumen. Since 2006 he has certified treated timber for export and managed complex chemical treatment processes at scale. Earlier roles ranged from strategic resource assessment and native forest supervision to project management of harvest operations, giving him end-to-end insight into forest-to-product value chains. He has also contributed to the Ansible open-source project by improving documentation for cloud and automation modules, reflecting a pragmatic attention to process clarity beyond the forestry domain.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Forestry Science, Forestry Science, Bachelors of Forestry Science, Forestry Science at University of CanterburyPost- graduate Diploma of Business & Administration, Finance, General, Post- graduate Diploma of Business & Administration, Finance, General at Massey University
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Github Skills (9)
ansible-galaxy10
automation10
automations10
ansible10
documentation9
amazon-ec29
python8
regex6
jinja26
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 10 PRs, 85 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Gerard contributed to the Ansible project by updating documentation and examples related to modules. They addressed inconsistencies and improved clarity in the documentation for modules like `wait_for`, and `ec2_tag`. The user also made minor fixes to various modules related to cloud functionality and formatting within the documentation files.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
halberom/ansible_role_iptables
Jun 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 47 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
ansibleroleiptablesansible-role
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