Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Travis Wichert Travis Wichert

Systems Engineer at Liquid Web

    Eaton Rapids, Michigan (Lansing, Michigan Area) 
    Information Technology and Services 

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        IT Consultant at Network Administrative Services
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        DeVry University
        Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University

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I'm a fun and innovative geek who loves the interdisciplinary challenges the information technology field provides. I've been in the these trenches for about two decades, so I've gained some perspective of the long-view on managing technology, growth, and -- most importantly -- change.

Most of my professional experience is in systems engineering, systems administration, project management, and networking. My favorite projects creatively push the limits of existing technologies in a way that somewhat resembles invention, but built from proven building blocks. My current favorite example is my recent work creating a Windows and Linux "emulsion" from which Windows cloud servers are born. Specialties

I am OS agnostic and am most fluent in BSD, Linux, and MS Windows. I have deployed many WLANs and dealt with local and wide-area networks at all OSI layers. I find enjoyment in project management and risk assessments. I aim to be as plug-and-play as possible, Travis Wichert's Experience Systems Engineer / Senior Systems Administrator Liquid Web

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry

June 2009 – Present (2 years 10 months) Lansing, Michigan Area

I architect and admin internally-facing systems, provide buck-stops-here support for customers with demanding needs, and develop cutting-edge next-gen hosting products. IT Consultant Network Administrative Services

April 2006 – September 2009 (3 years 6 months) Greater Seattle Area

I worked with NAS as a sub-contractor through my firm, Compass & Scale. IT Cowboy Compass & Scale

April 2006 – September 2009 (3 years 6 months) Greater Seattle Area

As a small business owner, I provided IT service and support to small- and medium-sized businesses, and the occasional individual, directly and through relationships with reputable consulting companies. IT Consultant, Systems Administrator Denali Advanced Integration

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

January 2002 – January 2004 (2 years 1 month) Redmond, WA

I worked many different projects. Some of the more memorable were: HIS/EMR/ERP deployments, software support/test, network engineering, fault surveillance automation and reporting, traffic optimization, spam filtering, and custom routers and VPN firewalls. NOC Engineer Earthlink/Mindspring

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; xide; Telecommunications industry

September 1999 – April 2001 (1 year 8 months)

Provide tier 1 and 2 support for all flavors of service-affecting issues. Escalated to SA and NetEng whenever the issue was outside of my support scope. Designed a more automated fault surveillance system for dial-up POPs. Senior Technician Geeks to Go Computers, LLC

1998 – 1999 (1 year)

In-house and on-site computer and network repairs. Travis Wichert's Education DeVry University Networking and Communications Management, Business, Logic, Networking, IT Systems

2002 – 2006

Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University MBA, Business, Economics, Information Security

2006

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    painting, geocaching, cooking, puzzles, hiking, putting sounds together in a pleasing way, networking everything, building things, working with my hands, laughing, smiling, volunteering, dorking around on the internet, driving a tractor, solving problems, trying to get a robotics club up and running at the local high school

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David "Lefty" Schlesinger aka "stonemirror" has one hell of a long history of being offensive and harassing to women. Here one of those women, Kathy Sutphen, speaks out. She was stalked so viciously by Lefty that she suffered traumatic effects.

“I’d save the ASCII totem for an occasion just prior to your court )) )date, in the event that ever actually comes to pass: you’ll need all )) )the good luck you can scrape together. )) ) )) )– )) )Lefty Redux [gYon-Pa] (lefty apple.com), (dns netcom.com) )) )C:.M:.C:., D:.O:.D:. )) )) I was utterly shocked by the vicious animosity of these messages. In all )) honesty, I have find them to be quite intimidating. They have affected my )) sleep and my appetite. I do not know to what lengths this man will go to )) for retaliation. I hope that his anger is limited to email and I have not )) exhibited foolish bravado in posting these. However, I will not participate )) in his abuse by continuing to allow him to send me these types of messages )) privately with the thought that his threats of extortion will keep me from )) sharing. Every abuser needs to be drug into a public forum posthaste. It is )) only in a public arena that this type of behavior can be halted. )) )) I hope that others of you that have been subjected to this type of abuse )) will ignore his threats and make his behavior public. )) )) Kathy Sutphen”

http://www.waldorfcritics.org/active/archives/WCA9707.html

Ikipr ZapPowApr 16, 2012 I find Rachel's continued use of exploiting the victim role as a means of publicity to be somewhat deplorable. She did feed the troll on her kickstarter, it is their service to ban her from for TOS violations. Seeking sympathy as a means of promotion feels almost as underhanded and sleazy as "stalking" someone. Can the term stalker aptly be applied or is this just a case of on-line harassment? The use of the word may give incorrect context to what is occurring here. Is there such a thing as "cyber-stalking" - if so, we should differentiate between the two in cases like these. David SchlesingerApr 16, 2012 I'm not here to defend Rachel, but there's nothing anyone can do to deserve the kind of harassment to which she, I and numerous others have been subjected by this malignant nutcase.

I find your short-sighted attitude more than "somewhat" deplorable. Ikipr ZapPowApr 16, 2012 I do not fail to sympathize with you and others who undergo any harassment, David. I simply see additional underhandedness in how this person has time and time again used the role of victim as a means of self-aggrandizement and promotion. This trivializes the issue at hand.

I'm sorry if you take offense at my wanting more specific labeling of the issue as well. Words have pre-fixed connotations and I do tend to think of things which take place on-line and in the real world as two very different levels of seriousness. The connotation I associate with stalking is of a more serious, real-world nature. I do not mean to offend in pointing these things out. Expand this comment » David SchlesingerApr 16, 2012 This kind of stalking has serious, real-world consequences for the people who are victims of it. I don't think you really have much of an idea what you're talking about here, which leads me to wonder why you're talking about it.

Here's a site that's been put up by another of this stalker's victims. Take a look, and give it some thought, please.

http://gniklats.com/ Ikipr ZapPowApr 16, 2012 Your sort of "real world" consequence indicate a lack of division between your life and digital presence then sir. I'm not trying to engage you in a negative way here. I will leave you to your opinions, sorry for expressing my own unwelcomed ones for their perceived lack of sensitivity on your part. I try to see both sides of the coin and both parties are serious fucking fail in the issue covered in this article. Sorry bro. David SchlesingerApr 16, 2012 "Your sort of "real world" consequence indicate a lack of division between your life and digital presence then sir."

I see. So, when this person emails about 900 people associated with the employment of a member of my family in a clear attempt to interfere with that employment, in spite of her actually having no involvement with whatever he imagines his gripe with me to be, and when he further threatens to use Photoshop to put her face onto a pornographic photo and email it to the same 900 people, that indicates a "lack of division" between my life and my "digital presence".

Have I got that correctly, sir? (And please enlighten me about the other "side" you see to that "coin", sir.) Expand this comment » Ikipr ZapPowApr 16, 2012 (edited) You put your real name up on socnets and trolls leak over into your real world affairs - yes, that indicates a lack of division between your real world and on-line presence. I'm done here, man. I've had my say already from the get go, you are baiting, seeking engagement and perhaps engaging some of the very behaviors you of harassment you are discouraging here by so readily discounting alternatives to your own convictions. It's cool though man, I don't think poorly of you for this sort of hypocrisy, I'm just not gonna feed the trolls here myself. So best of luck with this crusade/tragedy-turned-promotional-tool for an egotist here. I'll not fan it's silly flames anymore. I should have known it was too sensitive of an issue and would need to be defended with the same careless zeal harassment is carried out with. Collapse this comment David SchlesingerApr 16, 2012 That fine, feel free to get lost. My distaste for pseudonym-itude is pretty well-known. Feel free to hide, if that suits your personality more. Uriah MaynardApr 17, 2012 +1 Ikipr, WTF? Why you gotta troll, bitch?

David "Lefty" Schlesinger calls me "thuggish" but here.... we have David "Lefty" Schlesinger aka Stonemirror - open source gadfly and part time dildo salesman ...

fantasizing about giving a journalist a gang style beat down!

Stone Mirror posted :

Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:03 am Post subject: Re: CentOS will continue [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)

http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/CENTOS-Freetard-Run-Piggy-...

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(If it's Miguel that Roy's worried about, I certainly wouldn't _blame_ Miguel for wanting to take a swing at Roy; in fact, if Miguel were to ask me to--which he wouldn't--I'd be willing to seriously consider holding Roy down while Miguel worked him over. That said, I have to say that Miguel, who is more of a gentleman than I'll be in two lifetimes, would never do such a thing: I've broken up an _actual about-to-turn-into-a-fight_ with Miguel. Peacefully. He's a peaceful guy. Me, I'm as peaceful as I _can_ be.)

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actually 5 people made those comments, and 1/4 were from Rachel and 1/3 were from her boyfriend David "Lefty" Schlesinger attacking the remaining 1/6 by someone trying merely to point out that Rachel failed to produce the goal of her last KS, for which she got $3,000.00. 3k to do nothing. that is fraud. there were a couple of random trolls also posting. Most of it was Schlesinger, really thumping his chest and chimping out, as usual.