Written as a comprehensive guide for intermediate and advanced network professionals, who want to install or maintain a Cisco switching environment or learn about Cisco switching technologies. No other book thoroughly covers the advanced topics required to achieve this level of comprehensive Cisco knowledge or certification in the new CCNP curriculum. Includes valuable information for those studying for the CCNP certification including tips and hints, sample review questions and lab exercises. Explores complex topics in-depth, in the popular Black Book format, using a complete systematic approach to Cisco switching along with comprehensive examples and diagrams.
Sean Odom's latest book is the Windows 7 70-680 Exam Study Guide and is currently working on others in the Microsoft Windows 7 certification series. Sean is also the 2009 I.T. Dream Team (www.ITDreamTeam.com) Most Sought After Network Administrator.
One of the single most important reasons is the amount of time Sean spends sharing information with his peers. He publically speaks in favor of industry shared technologies, instructs advanced networking classes in his spare time and has written so many industry certification and computer support books to help others learn.
He has written for such publishers as Que, Sybex, Wylie, Coriolis, Paraglyph Press and he is now writing for MediaWorks Publishing with a multiple book deal on Search Engine Optimization and Windows 7. Along with writing, Sean has also mastered many facets of Information Technology.
The number of skills he possesses is virtually impossible to find in one single individual. Organizations usually need to hire many skilled individuals to run their organization. Sean has the skills to handle them all. He is an expert at networking, an expert at supporting operating systems, an expert trainer, does web design, search engine optimization, a certified physical cabling expert, and on top of all that is one of the foremost experts in network security and intrusion detection.
Sean is well known in the Search Engine Optimization(SEO) industry as well. Some of his techniques have been learned and put in to use by many others through books and news articles he has written. He has also been credited with starting an entire industry of SEO professsionals and related businesses. Sean was one of the first to introduce SEO techniques and make it well known with the very first article on the subject in 1989.
Sean has been in the IT industry for over 18 years. In that time he has been an IT Consultant for such companies as Albertsons, Wells Fargo Bank, CH2M Hill, Intel, UBS/Payne Webber, and many more. His Sybex CCNA Exam Notes book recently was published in its Fourth Edition. He has also written over 100 articles for major publications.
