One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.
I really enjoy computer networking.
I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.
I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
In 2010, I attended Prince George's Community College in hopes of transferring to The University of Maryland. My major was computer science, and the goal was to one day work as an I.T.
It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.
I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.
Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.
The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading.
They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.
Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.
I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.
My dad worked in the IT industry, although I haven't got a clue what he did. He always tells me but it just goes over my head.
Any time you build a network, you have to help users find their friends.
I used to work for Symantec AV: I worked as their in-house IT technician, and then I worked as specialized AV support, and then I worked for Hartford Life IT, in Dublin and London. I worked in IT from '99 through to 2007.
As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.
I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.
As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.
Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.
