Paul is CEO of PreOS Security Inc and is a board member for the League of Professional System Administrator, a nonprofit professional association for the advancement of the practice of system administration from 2015 through 2017. Paul has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute obtained in 1998. He has been a UNIX & Linux system administrator and wearer of many other IT hats since 1996. More recently he has managed a few sysadmins while still racking the occasional server. In 2016, Paul ventured into a firmware security startup to help sysadmins keep their systems safe from new threats.

Paul English presents 2 Events:

• Advice on becoming a sysadmin: A talk for my former self at SeaGL 2015

• Detecting BadBIOS, Evil Maids, Bootkits, and Other Firmware Malware at Seattle GNU/Linux Conference 2017