Hello, this is me – advertisingemergency.net

I am a Senior Network & Network Security Engineer with over 10 years experience designing, maintaining, and securing global enterprise networks.

Highly organized and detail-oriented, I specialize in high-pressure outage response and complex troubleshooting, with a strong ability to clearly communicate technical issues and progress to stakeholders.

I’m well-versed in many manufacturers & technologies, including…

Enterprise networking: Palo Alto Networks (hardware/VM PanOS, Panorama, SCM, Prisma), Cisco IOS/Nexus, Juniper JunOS, HPE ArubaOS, Dell/Force10, Arista EOS
Protocols & architecture: BGP, OSPF, VPN (site-to-site and user), WAN/MPLS routing, cloud peering with the big three
Infrastructure: virtualization, storage (NAS and SAN, RDMA/RoCE), PCoIP/VDI
Project- and ticket-management workflows: SNOW, Jira, Smartsheet
General help desk support and all tiers of troubleshooting

… and much more. Find me on LinkedIn/wpsimon3 for more information.

Have we talked about five nines yet? Because I expect 99.999% of this blogs views to come from my laptop or my phone…so I guess I could put this knowledge into OneNote. Or Evernote. Or Notes.app. My Wiki. A few scattered emails or .txt docs on my desktop. Some markdown in Obsidian (my current favorite flavor of a local knowledge dumpster). Or really anywhere else other than the Internet…but here we are. And here you are, reading the About page. Neat.

Anyways…most of the work I’ve done supports the Film, TV, and Advertising worlds. Which is how the “it’s only advertising, nobody dies” mantra came about. I’m also a bit obsessed with my Jeep but we can take that discussion off-road.