About Tom Limoncelli
Hi! My name is Tom Limoncelli and I'm a 39-year old guy that lives in New Jersey that spends most of his time either at work, doing activism, playing with computers, or saving the world.

Tom Limoncelli's Activism VERY SHORT Bio (2008-01-02)

Tom Limoncelli is a 39 year old bi/poly activist and organizer from NJ. An IT professional and author, his 2003 book "Time Management for System Administrators" became an instant classic. He is an internationally recognized author and speaker, presenting keynotes and classes both within the IT community as well as at LGBT, poly, and bi leadership conferences. His web site is www.whatexit.org

Tom Limoncelli's Activism Bio

Tom Limoncelli is a 37 year old bi activist and organizer in New Jersey. Raised and educated in New Jersey, Tom started his activism as a student at Drew University, went on to co-found the organization now known as BiZone. He's volunteered with Gay Activist Alliance in Morris County (1989-1991), worked on the successful passage of New Jersey's LGB anti-discrimination law (which added sexual orientation and other matters to New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination, vice-president then president of the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition (1994-1996) and was active in The 1993 March On Washington and Stonewall 25 events. He's been in BiNet/USA since 1992, including 4 years as Regional Organizer. He co-founded the Tri-State Bisexual Conference which he co-chaired or advised in 1996, 1997, 1999, and 2000. Tom now spends a lot of time coordinating GLBTI activism over the internet (email campaigns and web sites) for Howard Dean presidential campaign. Tom has authored two books about computer system administration. Tom lives in New Jersey and commutes every day to his job at Google's NYC office.

AT&T's LEAGUE (Lesbian and Gay United Employees) organization awarded him their 1995 LEAGUE Community Involvement Award(Political), and in 1997 the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition awarded him their "Honor" life-time achievement award for his activism.
 
 

Tom Limoncelli's Activism Bio

Tom Limoncelli is a 37 year old bi activist and organizer in New Jersey. Raised and educated in New Jersey, Tom started his activism when he was a student at Drew University where he was active in (and for 2 years co-President of) the student LGB organization. He facilitated a men's support group that was part of the Gay Activist Alliance in Morris County in 1989-1990. In 1991-2 he worked on New Jersey's sucessful effort to amend the New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination), to add "sexual or affectional orientation" for protection in housing, hiring, banking, and public accomodations. He served as outreach co-chair and logistics coordinator. He co-created BiNet/NJ (now known as BiZone) in 1991. He was vice-president then president of the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition 1994-1996, which included such accomplishments as the creation of a community center, spinning off the NJ Pride Parade as a seperate organization, modifying the by-laws to be fully bi and transgender inclusive, participation in The 1993 March On Washington and Stonewall 25, and other projects.

He has worked with BiNet/USA since 1992 including 4 years spent as the Regional Organizer from the Tri-State region. He has edited the New Jersey section of the Bisexual Resource Guide for much of the 1990's. Tom spends much of his time with the Tri-State Bisexual Conferences which he created/co-chaired in 1996 (NYC, NY), was advisor to in 1997 (Hartford, CT), co-chair in 1999 (New Brunswick NJ), and on the planning committee of the highly successful 2000 (NYU Campus, NY) conference.

Through out all of this Tom has been active in electronic activism on the Internet. Since 1987 he has used the Internet as an organizing tool. He maintained information about The 1993 March On Washington and Stonewall 25 events on the internet, and was one of a handful of people that since 1992 organized to keep the idea alive that there should be a Stonewall 25 celebration in NYC in 1994.

AT&T's LEAGUE (Lesbian and Gay United Employees) organization awarded him their 1995 LEAGUE Community Involvement Award (Political), and in 1997 the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition awarded him their "Honor" life-time achievement award for his activism.

In 2003 he quit his job and volunteered full-time for the Howard Dean presidential campaign. Tom is now semi-retired from activism, though he still is the webmaster and membership co-chair of NJLGC. Tom has authored two books about computer system administration. Tom lives in New Jersey and commutes every day to his job at Google's NYC office.

He occasionally helps organizations with strategic planning when asked. He's always willing to speak at conference or do workshops.

Tom Limoncelli's Professional Bio

Tom Limoncelli is a computer system administrator at Google, Inc in their NYC office where he keeps sites like Google Maps up and running. Previously he was Director of IT Services at Cibernet Corporation, Director of Network Services at Lumeta Corp, and a system administrator at Bell Labs / Lucent Technologies and other companies. Tom has been a computer system administrator and network engineer since 1987. He has published papers at conferences such as Usenix LISA on a wide variety of topics including innovative firewall techniques, coordinating massive network changes, models for improving customer support, and the security issues related to firing your system administrator. Along with Christine Hogan he is co-author of the book "The Practice of System and Network Administration" from Addison-Wesley. He holds a B.A. in C.S. from Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. Reach him electronically at tal+wp@whatexit.org.

"Where is he now?" Bio

I must be old because NJLGC just asked me (10/7/2004) to write a 200-word "where is he now?" bio for their award ceremony publication (I received their award in 1997). I wrote:
Tom Limoncelli took a break from activism to co-author a book on computer system and network administration which is now considered the top book on the subject and has lead to him being invited to teach workshops and speak at conferences internationally. He returned to activism through his involvement in BiZone and NJLGC. He spent 2.5 months volunteering at the Vermont HQ of the Howard Dean presidential campaign, and has since been involved volunteering with various election efforts to elect local liberal candidates as well as John Kerry. He's now coordinating the grass-roots involvement tools on www.NJLGC.org. He teaches workshops on bisexuality and polyamory in at conferences every chance he gets. He writes a blog on blog.whatexit.org

Shorter professional bio

Thomas Limoncelli is an internationally recognized author and speaker on many topics including system administration, networking, and security. A system administrator since 1988, he now speaks at conferences around the world on topics ranging from firewall security to managing IT departments, to time management. He has worked for Google, Cibernet, Dean For America, Lumeta, Bell Labs / Lucent, AT&T and Mentor Graphics. Along with Christine Hogan he is co-author of the book "The Practice of System and Network Administration" from Addison-Wesley (2001). In 2005 he published O'Reilly's "Time Management for System Administration". He holds a B.A. in C.S. from Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, USA. He publishes a blog on www.EverythingSysadmin.com.

Short professional bio (2006/04)

Thomas Limoncelli is an internationally recognized author and speaker on many topics including system administration, time management, and grass-roots organizing. A system administrator since 1988, he has worked for small and large companies including Google, Lumeta, AT&T, Lucent / Bell Labs. He has written/co-written two books, "The Practice of System and Network Administration" from Addison-Wesley (2001) and "Time Management for System Administration" from O'Reilly (2005). He received the 2005 Outstanding Achievement Award from SAGE. He holds a B.A. in C.S. from Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, USA. His blog is www.EverythingSysadmin.com.

Activism bio (used for 2006/11 Brenda Howard award)

Tom Limoncelli is a 37 year old bi activist and organizer in New Jersey. Raised and educated in New Jersey, Tom started his activism as a student at Drew University (1987-1991) and went on to co-found the organization now known as BiZone in 1991. He worked within the gay and lesbian community to pass the New Jersey "gay rights" bill in 1991 and was vice-president then president of the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition (1994-1996). He worked with Brenda Howard to keep alive the notion to have a march on the United Nations to remember the 25th Anniversary of Stonewall (1994). He was active with BiNet/USA from 1992 until 2000, including 4 years as inluding 4 years as Regional Organizer where he co-founded the Tri-State Bisexual Conference. He co-chaired or advised the conference in 1996, 1997, 1999, and 2000. The conference is now the yearly Transcending Boundaries conference. Now Tom considers himself semi-retired from activism, though he coordinates Internet-based activism for NJLGC and teaches leadership and time-management skills at conferences. Outside of activism, Tom has authored two books about computer system administration. Tom lives in New Jersey and commutes every day to his job at Google's NYC office.

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