This entry is short but gets right to the point. This Sysadmin of the Year nominee has saved his organization big bucks. That gets attention in any phase of an economic cycle. Names changed to keep the awesome out of the hands of headhunters.
My SysAdmin is a Rock Star because…: [Julien Sorel] virtually single handedly transformed the fortunes of [our] site and company – reducing out hosting costs by over 50% while at the same time improving our performance by over 4 times!
As a result of his work, hundreds of thousands of [end users] around the world can, and do, [access our services] in peace…. unconcerned by downtime or issues.
And he’s done this mostly between the hours of 8PM – 2AM, working with people from across 4 continents.
And that’s just the [our] staff
In an unconventional environment and with an unknown quantity … he’s come to the party, and made sure that it’s rocking.
My only hesitation in nominating him, is that it might make someone else want to steal him from us
