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edit Amanda McPherson

Company:The Linux Foundation
Position:Marketing Director
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edit Experience

• Currently is the director of marketing and communication for the The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux.
• experience includes marketing and public relations for such companies as Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Corio, Covalent Technologies, Centrata, Intel, Novell, AlphaBlox and others.
• Is a published author (both fiction and non-fiction) and frequent writer on open source and Linux topics.
• was a member of the core team that launched the Java programming language for Sun in 1995 and has won industry awards for her public relations writing work.

edit Experience

• graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley.
• also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona.