Matthew Rice is the Executive Director of the Linux Professional Institute. Before this, he held the position of Director of Certification Development. Matthew is a licensed engineer in Canada in the fields of geophysics and software development and received his LPIC-1 certification in 2002.
Matthew is a graduate of the University of Toronto's Engineering Science program. After university, he dove right into software development in Fortran, C, Tcl and Perl in a Solaris environment which quickly migrated to a Linux platform and many other languages in 1995. His first contribution to free and open source software was in 1994.
