About me

<p>I’m Gina. I work in the Data Protection organization as the Product Marketing Manager for AppAssure. I'm originally from the<a href="http://www.destin-fwb.com/"> Redneck Riveria</a>, but I live in Austin Texas now. I have a master’s degree from the <a href="http://insys.fsu.edu/">Instructional Systems</a> program at <a href="http://insys.fsu.edu/">Florida State University</a>. If you are interested, here is <a href="http://portfolio.ginaminks.com/">the portfolio</a> that is the result of my studies.</p> <p>I’m an experienced sysadmin and storage professional, and have been doing social media since before we called it social media. Data protection experience - let's see I had to do backups by command line (Solaris) and I worked at a place with an evil tape robot that liked to eat peoples' arms!!  If you want to know more check out my <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/gminks">LinkedIn profile</a>!  I’m usually paying attention on <a href="http://twitter.com/gminks">twitter</a> too.</p> <p>For those of you wondering what this sting in my my Twitter profile means:</p> <p>GIT d+ LSAHU++++ P+ L++ E— W+++ t– b++ e+++ h—</p> <p>It is actually <a href="http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html">geek code</a>. <img src="http://gminks.edublogs.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p> <p>Just in case you want to connect other places - here's my <a href="http://about.me/gina.rosenthal/">about.me</a> page.</p>