My home is here in Issaquah, WA. on the Issaquah creek with my wife Teresa, two cats, twelve hens, two roosters, seven greylag geese, and a outdoor aviary with doves, finches and button quail. Some of my hobbies include dabbling at woodworking and collecting antique radios and test equipment.

HP Early Retirement (19 years)

As a retired 19-year veteran with Hewlett-Packard, much of my time was spent troubleshooting network performance problems for customers, implementing OpenView, Network Node Manager for enterprise network management, and preparing network capacity plans for new network designs. I've also assisted the HP sales force in configuring HP9000 servers and storage for HP customers.

During my last 2 1/2 years at HP, I was the full-time UNIX Server/Storage SE at the on-site Hewlett -Packard team at Amazon.com. The official information about this relationship is:

• Hewlett Packard is the primary Internet infrastructure provider for Amazon.com. HP supplies 90% of Amazons' applicable infrastructure requirements. This includes Internet servers and storage for the Amazon Web site, distribution and supply-chain management, and PCs for Amazon employees.
• HP supports Amazon in a monitoring role to ensure that the on line retail site stays up and working during peak transaction periods,
• HP supplies Amazon with multiple support services that span the entire gamut of Windows NT and Unix servers, including A-class servers and the SuperDome.
• HP also supplies Business Continuity Support, which requires HP's onsite presence at Amazons' operations with strategies for Web site outage prevention.

Not your average technical and scientific professional. More like an 'out of the box' thinker with drive and vision Net/System Security Consulting, Network Capacity Planning, NNM Implementation Enterprise-Wide, Upgraded Amazon.com's Infrastructure in 2 years.

Part-time Information Technology Instructor at U of W

One of my greatest passions is teaching at the University of Washington Extension Department, in the areas of LAN Troubleshooting and Diagnosis, UNIX, TCP/IP and Network Administration, LAN/WAN Network Design and Management, and Advanced Network Management. I've taught in the program since 1993. The HP Education group has enlisted me as a teacher as well.

Strong Interests include; Macintosh OS X, Linux, digital photography and 3D immersive panoramas, digital video, multimedia, wireless and LAN workgroup networking, and programming.

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