Jeremy has been a technological swiss army knife since the Oregon Trail was text only. His favorite color is sushi. He resides in Bloomington, Indiana, but has never been to the moon.

Bio

Jeremy first touched a computer, a Commodore 64, at the age of four.  He spent countless hours typing in programs from the pages of RUN and Compute! He later acquired a PC at the age of 13, and subsequently discovered BBSs, FidoNET, programming, networking, and the security world.  He was introduced to Linux in 1996 and has been using it since (except for that brief period when the FBI took his computers away).

As a teenager, he began working for a local consulting company managing HP/UX servers (but don’t bring that up, it still gives him nightmares).  Later, he also migrated several of those customers to Linux.

Today, he serves as a network ninja at a post-secondary educational institution where he routes packets, switches frames, keeps a few Linux servers humming along, and occasionally beats a Windows server into submission.  He has also designed and taught a few network security courses, imparting knowledge upon eager minds.

He likes to use Perl to make his life easier.  He works smarter, not harder.  He’s a Mac.

What Jeremy Has Done

If you’re wondering why you should bother to read anything Jeremy writes, here are a few bullet points of things he’s done in the past that might be relevant:

• Graduated with > 3.0 GPA.
• Was a member, officer and, later, advisor of a national honor society.
• Designed, redesigned, implemented, configured, and managed large networks serving thousands of users.
• Migrated a number of services from Windows to Linux servers, increasing availability, stability and security.
• Likes to write code that makes his life easier (e.g. automating repetitive tasks).
• Taught network security courses at an accredited post-secondary educational institution.

Industry Certifications

Jeremy has accumulated a number of certifications, including:

• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP),
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA),
• Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate-Enterprise Routing (JNCIA-ER),
• Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA),
• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS),
• Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP),
• SANS/GIAC Certified Windows Security Administrator (GCWN),
• HP Accredited Systems Engineer – HP ProCurve Campus LANs (ASE),
• HP Accredited Integration Specialist – ProCurve Networking (AIS), and
• CompTIA Linux+, Network+, and Security+

He is currently pursuing others as well.

Contact

Jeremy can be reached via e-mail to jeremy at evilrouters dot net.  Occasionally, you might catch him on Google Talk or AIM (as jeremygaddis).

Disclosures and Relationships

• I own an independent business and occasionally take on projects (but only if they are interesting enough).
• I have attended conferences such as the Red Hat Summit, CFUnited, and SANS on my employers dime.
• I have had dinner, drinks, etc. paid for by vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco, HP and their partners and resellers.
• The cost of attending an HP educational course were paid for by one of my employer’s vendors (course only, not travel/hotel, etc.)
• My employer regularly pays for the costs of certification examinations.
• I attended the HP Networking Tech Day at HP’s expense.
• As an adjunct faculty member at an accredited educational institution, I have received numerous free “instructor review copies” of books from various publishers.
• My web sites are hosted by ARP Networks and 1&1 (at my expense).
• Third-party advertisements (i.e. Google Adsense) appear on this site and generate a small amount of revenue.
• I received the CCIE R&S Blended Learning Self-Study Bundle and rack rentals from IPexpert.
• TrainSignal sent me a free copy of their Cisco CCNP Training Package.
• I have contributed financially to a number of IT-related organizations, including The FreeBSD Project, the Peer-Directed Projects Center (Freenode), the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and a handful of others.
• I am a member of the Free Software Foundation and have an @gnu.org e-mail address. I’m not a freetard, though, and believe that BSD > GPL.

None of the above affects or influences my opinions in any way.  I have always thought for myself and formed my own opinions, and always will.

Last, opinions are my own. I don’t speak for my employer and they don’t speak for me.

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