Friday, July 18, 2008

First Post

Personal Experience: I currently lead the antivirus infrastructure support for a mid-western aerospace company which included 5,000 workstations and servers. We maintain and implement current antivirus, spyware, SPAM and email filters.

I am also the project manager for wireless and mobile technologies. This includes Blackberries, Access Points (AP) and high-speed wireless PC cards. This includes wired/wireless Virtual Private Network (VPN) strategies.

Educational Background: I attained an MBA from the University of La Verne with a concentration in Information Systems in the year 2000. In 2007 received a Masters of Science in Management (MSM) with a concentration in Information Security from CTU. Lastly a third Masters currently in progress at CTU and anticipate completion in 2008.

I volunteer my time teaching classes at work. These include teaching new technologies classes as well as ethics, business cultural diversity etc… Some of these sessions are small 2-10 people, but some of the more popular sessions have included as many as 300 people. This is what I really enjoy – sharing knowledge.

2 comments:

Lyr Lobo said...

Welcome! We look forward to hearing your insights into Web 2.0 technologies as well as your analysis of failed and successful predictions.

Later this week, I'll have the details published for the final project.

I was intrigued with the expanded wireless idea and welcome your thoughts on how it would work, given 10-15 years and some much needed technological innovations.

Chris' Blog said...

Currently wireless is limited to 3 to 600 feet. In order to use your wireless device it has to be within range of a wireless access point. The other current option is to use cell-phone technology and connect using a Sprint/Verizon/AT&T card. But, these devices are limited to how far the device is from a cell-tower. Last week I was in rural Wisconsin and my wireless AT&T card did not work. The other option was dial-up. I ended up going to the nearest large town and found a coffee shop that provided wireless access (30 miles away).

There has to be a better way in the future to connect to the internet? Since there are power and phone wires almost everywhere. Maybe there will be a future technology that can provide high-speed access using these existing infrastructures. As part of the power brick that connects to a computer, maybe have that electrical circuit also provide a high-speed internet connection? The other option could be satellite? Currently a large dish is needed to point to the satellite and the monthly cost is expensive. There are also lag-times when using a satellite internet service.

Today a little device can connect to a GPS satellite and provide the current location and directions to desired destination. Why in the future can this same device be connected to a computer and/or is the computer and connected to a high-speed internet connection? Current high-speed WAN lines use all of these – they use copper wire, fiber optics, microwave, satellite etc… There has to be a way in the future to connect to any of these (and more).

I also picture a watch/thumb drive sized device that has all of your data, including operating system. This device can integrate/communicate with your car, home, office. Can also connect to your camera, cell phone, air conditioning; microwave (essentially any electronic device). When you come into close proximity to a dummy terminal or kiosk, the user would enter-in their password and can work or surf the internet. This one device could have biometric security, so it will only work for one person. This device would recognize multiple input devices. So, it would recognize your voice. Maybe this device would project a virtual monitor, mouse and keyboard.