FIFO Networks

Now offering personal cybersecurity setup for journalists, stalking victims and others. DM me or use the "Contact Us" page on the FIFO Networks website. It's only me. You'll be communicating directly with me.

Most of my income: network and cybersecurity projects for public utilities.
Most of my time: IT services by the hour for companies too small to have an in-house IT staff, including SOHO businesses and residential.
I also unlock computers and do data recovery and account recovery for people when a loved one dies. (Advice: keep paying their cell phone bill until you've got all their data back, and if they used a smartwatch, keep it charged and ready).

Network design assistance (both wired and wireless).
Cybersecurity assistance: policy, design, implementation, training.
Training at all levels for IT and RF engineers and technicians.
Expert witness services in cases involving data or wireless networks.
Crisis resolution.
Emergency interim management.
Clients include hospitals and many public utilities (electric, gas, water), nationwide.

Licensed and insured.

Sole Proprietor, Consultant - IT Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Management 

Wireless Advocates

CISO and Director of Information Security

Everett Community College

I wrote and taught the course, "Basic Electronics and Troubleshooting," at Boeing's request. I also updated and taught the follow-up course, "Intermediate Electronics and Troubleshooting."

Technical Instructor

Bellevue College

Over the years I have taught various courses at BC including: Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security, Server Management, Smartphone and Tablet Security, Network+, A+, Certified Cellular/PCS Technician, Wireless Fundamentals, Cellular Fundamentals, Voice over IP, and more. I have also provided custom training through BC to various companies including T-Mobile, Costco, and the Washington Dept. of Natural Resources.

Adjunct Professor

Peripheral Vision Communications, Inc.

Wireless and telecom consulting and technical services. Integration of voice and data communications systems using diverse communications protocols. Design review, budgeting assistance. 802.11, VoIP, bandwidth calculations, propagation solutions, and more. Clients include all major US cellular carriers.

President

Western Wireless

Directed all new cell site construction, and all civil upgrades to existing cell sites, in Western Wireless' area of operation (19 states). Western Wireless owned the Cellular One brand name. Received 100% of my bonus for in-budget completion.

Director, National System Development

Tele-Waves

Directed the design, installation, and maintenance of two satellite data distribution systems with a nationwide footprint. In budget every year.

Director, Technical Services

Portland Paging/PageWEST-TSI

On time, in budget: managed the design and installation of a profitable satellite controlled wireless communications system.

Regional Manager, Technical Services

US Navy

My last assignment was Shop Supervisor, all shifts, Avionics Department, USS Okinawa (LPH-3). I held a Secret clearance related to crypto electronics.

Aviation Electronics Technician

I make networks resilient, recoverable, and - almost always - simpler.

Some of my projects:
Interstate highway network design for California Dept. of Transportation (Caltrans) for part of Interstate 10 for traffic monitoring and control.

Network and cybersecurity evaluations for various public utilities.

Achieved PCI DSS compliance in less than 4 months for a company that was paying monthly fines for non-compliance.

Designed, installed, and maintained wired and wireless communications systems and network infrastructure in many hospitals in many states.

Cell and WISP site lease valuations for Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

Wireless communications site inspections for the City of Bremerton, Washington.

Antenna and tower design for the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Commercial communications tower lease valuation for Port of Olympia, Washington.

Reviewed patent applications.

Expert witness with trial experience.

Developed certification course for electronics technicians under contract with Boeing.

Developed and taught courses at Bellevue College, Everett Community College, Oregon Coast Community College, and Perry Technical Institute (Cybersecurity - Networks - Wireless – Telecom - VoIP).

Taught several CompTIA courses to hundreds of students.

In addition to training and management, I'm also providing remote tech support to small businesses and home office workers. See https://fifonetworks.com/ or call me at (206) 465-2422 for more info or to schedule service. Fast response times.

Years of CISO and Director experience.
I take delight in mentoring today's leaders and teams.
I'm 69 years old and cutting edge current. My age isn't a bug, it's a feature.

Cybersecurity - Networks - Wireless – Telecom - VoIP

I can help your city, corporation, or small business be prepared for a crisis, or recover from it.

Available by the hour, weekly, monthly, project - let's discuss!

Full time? I'll accept an invitation to interview. We can take care of paperwork if we both agree it's a good fit.

Comfortable in the server room and the boardroom. Successfully managed budgets and projects up to $132M and nationally distributed teams. Quite familiar with extensive travel (Delta Gold, Hilton Diamond) and remote work. Crisis management, department overhauls, network optimization - contact me today at (206) 465-2422.

US Government offices: registered through SAM, available to work on federal government projects.

State of Washington offices: registered through MRSC Rosters for state, county, and city projects.

Bob Young

Dell Technologies

► Configure, deploy, and troubleshoot Palo Alto firewalls, Avocent devices, and Dell OS 10 layer 3 switches
► Develop automation via Ansible, Git, and GitLab for the routing and switch configuration of the production network
► Document how the automation works in the production network
► Create video documentation on various datacenter topics
► Administer Linux boxes that help troubleshoot the production network

Senior Engineer | Ansible | Python | YAML | Git | Dell OS10 | Linux | BASH | Palo Alto | Firewall 

The Pinnacle Group - Contracting for AT&T on the Fannie Mae Account

► Create, approve, and close RITM and CHG tickets in the ITSM software product, ServiceNow, for IT operations management (ITOM.) Work on ITSR and INC tickets as assigned.
► Configure routing & switching changes in conjunction with CMDB to be executed within SLA timelines using the ServiceNow cloud application.
► Provision and configure Cisco Nexus switch ports for customers in the disaster recovery data center and Fannie Mae branch locations.
► Prepare DNS changes to be executed within the service level agreement timelines.
► Verify and troubleshoot DNS and DHCP issues via ping, dig, nslookup, Infoblox, and the QIP IPAM.
► Write PowerShell and Unix shell scripts to assist in DNS changes.
► Train Fannie Mae and IBM customers so that they could understand what they were requesting in DNS.

Network | Change Management | ITIL | ServiceNow | Cisco Nexus | DNS | DHCP | IPAM | DDI | Infoblox

Sabbatical / Raising my daughter.

Full-time co-parent of a young daughter and household manager.

Director of @Home Technologies

ZeroChaos - Contracting for AT&T on the Hilton Account

► Participated on critical projects to assure a smooth transition for Hilton’s global infrastructure to move to the AT&T network. 
► Led the Memphis HQ wireless infrastructure refresh, including configuring, installing, upgrading, and support.
► Coordinated between customers and implementation engineers to assess, apply and verify changes. 
► Executed firewall changes within 24 hours as specified within the service level agreement. 
► Assessed and devised optimal solutions for global network challenges. 
► Created and maintained procedural documentation to fast track problem resolution for fellow engineers.

Network Engineer & Architect | WiFi | Wireless | Firewall | CheckPoint | Cisco IOS & ASA | DNS

Demand Studios

► Wrote procedural documentation that was published to eHow.

Freelance Technical Writer | DNS | BIND | DHCP | DDI | IPAM | Cisco | Juniper | Extreme | Linux

NexTech Solutions

► Contractor  and network engineer for Hilton
► Coordinated with the multiple groups to bring system/network architecture into compliance with PCI DSS standards.  
► Configured and troubleshot Cisco and Linux devices.

Network Engineer & Architect | PCI DSS | Cisco | Linux | Solaris | Cisco ACS | Nagios

Internet Systems Consortium

► Upgraded, tested and deployed Cisco routers, Cisco switches, APC Switch Rack PDU's, and APC UPS's.

Cisco Network Engineer

Verne Global

► Wrote and updated architectural and deployment documentation for the Verne Global network.

Senior Freelance Network Architect Technical Writer

Emdeon Business Services

► Configured and troubleshot networking devices to facilitate the move of 400+ servers from various data centers to the new disaster recovery site in Memphis.
► Surveyed remote sites and architected the upgrade of the network connectivity.  
► Installed and configured high-speed access and VoIP at the multiple sites for business continuity.  
► Administered and configured Cisco, Solaris and Linux devices.

Senior Network Engineer & Architect | Cisco | Linux | Solaris | VoIP | MPLS VPN | DNS | TACACS

Memphis Networx

► Identified cost savings running free open source software to bring the network operations center in house.  
► Deployed and troubleshot SONET, TDM and DWDM hardware using Cisco or Nortel devices.  
► Configured and troubleshot DS1, DS3 and 802.3 Ethernet circuits via Cisco routers and switches.

Senior Network Engineer | SONET | TDM | DWDM | Cisco | DS1 | Ethernet | DNS | Linux

RECRUITERS AND HIRING MANAGERS PLEASE NOTE - unless the job is 100% remote, I am not interested.

I am a network engineer & architect with over 20 years of experience and a degree in computer science.

Certifications:

Multiple ServiceNow Micro-certifications
Certification - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (expired)
Certification - Palo Alto Networks Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE)

Key Words - Cisco routers and switches, Cisco Nexus, Juniper routers, Brocade layer 3 switches, Extreme Networks layer 3 switches, Cisco ASA firewalls, Cisco ASDM, Palo Alto firewalls, Check Point / CheckPoint firewalls, Citrix Netscaler, F5, Avaya, DNS / BIND, Infoblox, FreeBSD, Linux, Unix, Solaris, Apple OS X / OSX, RADIUS, TACACS, Dark fiber, Peering, TL1, BGP, OSPF, NAT, QoS, Voice over IP (VoIP), 802.3 Ethernet, 802.11 (WiFi), VPN, DWDM, SONET, T1 / DS1, Ansible / YAML, AWK, Shell scripting, Perl, Objective-C, Cisco ACS, CiscoWorks, Apache, Asterisk, Git, Microsoft Visio, Nagios, NMAP, Rancid, PCI DSS, S3, EC2, NACL, IAM, CloudFront.

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