The management team is led by a group of college educated CCIE's with
significant business skills and a combined 32 years in the computer
networking industry. The CEO is currently attending MIT's prestigious
MBA program.
Instructors
John Kaberna is a dual Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert, CCIE #7146
(Routing/Switching and Security). John also holds the CCNP, CCDP, and
CCSP certifications. He is the President and principal consultant for
Network Consultants Group, Inc. based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He has more than 10 years experience in Cisco networking and security
including planning, designing, implementing, and troubleshooting large
multiprotocol networks. John is currently designing and implementing a
security management solution for one of the world’s largest financial
institutions. John graduated from the University of California, Berkeley
with a B.A. in Legal Studies. He is currently teaching the CCIE Security
Lab Bootcamp.
Kwame Gordon (CCIE#8100) is the principle Voice Architect for
NETCGINC, an IPTelephony and Security solutions firm in the Bay Area of
California. Although his current area of expertise is designing converged
voice and data networks he has also worked on many large scale routed,
switched and security networks during his 7 years in the industry. He has
recently worked on many large scale projects including a 300 office WAN
re-design, a 500-seat IPTelephony project and a large E-commerce
backbone implementation . He has designed networks for large
companies spanning the retail, medical, real-estate,educational and food-
services industries. As NETCG also offers CCIE Voice and CCIE Security
training curriculum, his other responsibility is that of CCIE Voice
instructor.
Authors
Richard Doty is a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert, CCIE #10875
(Routing/Switching and Security). Rich also holds the CCNP, CCDP, and
MCSE certifications. While Rich's core abilities are focused around
communications, he maintains knowledge in the surrounding associated
areas including: UNIX/Linux administration, network management, best
practices/standardization, and documentation. His customer background
spans several verticals including members of the enterprise, service
provider, educational, and investment communities. Rich is currently
working for a global solutions provider, architecting and implementing
network solutions for Fortune 1000 companies. Rich graduated from
Allegheny College with a B.S. in Computer Science.
Erik Freeland is a dual Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert, CCIE #6854
(Routing/Switching and Security). Erik is an independent network
consultant specializing in network security. He began networking
computers when NetWare 2.2 was popular and NT meant Northern
Telecom. He also coauthored the Designing Cisco Networks book
published by McGraw-Hill.
Ian Forde is a Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator, a Sun Certified
Network Administrator, and a Red Hat Certified Engineer. He also holds
the Sun Certified Data Management Engineer certification. Ian has over
10 years experience in UNIX architecture and administration,
encompassing small sites, large sites, and multinational corporate
infrastructures.
Lidiya White is a double CCIE #8155 (Routing & Switching and Security),
CCNP, CSS1 and CISSP. She is a Senior Network Engineer and
specializes in the design, implementation and troubleshooting of
complex networks. Lidiya has over 5 years of experience with Cisco
products, including 3 years of experience working as a Cisco TAC
engineer, where she provided extensive customer support for multiple
national and international customers. She installed and provided
troubleshooting for numerous routing protocols and security policies over
complex customer topologies in commercial and federal sectors. Lidiya
holds a technical degree from Sevastopol Polytechnic College in Ukraine.
