Summary

In short, this site is my blog, containing my thoughts, opinions, and analysis about technology, life, etc. I do not accept direct, monetary compensation to produce any specific content for any specific vendor, group, etc.

It goes without saying - but I will say it anyway because I’m legally required - my thoughts, opinions, analysis, and writings are not the official (or unofficial) statements or positions of my employer (past, present, and almost certainly future). In publishing the content I do, my employer does not endorse, condone, or approve the material on this blog prior to or after publication.

I write content here for two reasons:

Blog content from other professionals across the Internet has helped me learn, troubleshoot, and improve my understanding of technology. I would like to contribute what I’ve learned to help others as well.
Coming from an academic background, I’ve learned that publishing your understanding of an idea or topic is a fantastic way to organize those thoughts, clear up any lingering gaps, and provide a great deal of clarity to what you’ve learned. And, when you come back a few years later, you won’t struggle to remember it correctly as you’ll have written it down!

Disclaimers

With that general disclaimer on potential conflicts of interest, I do want to provide complete transparency into my circumstances around the times I publish content. With that in mind, there are a couple of specific posts with explicit disclosure for those periods of time.

Prior to October 2015

During these blogs, I was employed as a network architect at Wake Forest University. I was an adjunct professor of Computer Science and Physics. My role had no requirement (or incentive) to publish content on the Internet.

October 2015 to Jan 2017

During these blogs, I was employed as a Linux systems engineer for High Performance Computing at a high frequency trading company. The company permitted participation as a delegate for Tech Field Day. For those events, I have written a specific disclaimer post.

Jan 2017 to present

Blog content during this time was generated while I was employed at Cisco Systems, Inc. To date, these roles have been technical, pre-sales roles (DC TSA). While I was not compensated directly for the content, nor was content a responsibility of my roles, nor do I speak on behalf of Cisco Systems, Inc in any form or fashion… I did have access to a great deal of resources to support those posts (e.g. lab space, hardware devices, software licenses, etc.). That gear was not provided as a condition to write the content on this site.