Steve Jordan - CCNP Enterprise Design ENSLD 300-420 Official Cert Guide: Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks

Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks

Anthony Bruno, CCIE No. 2738

Steve Jordan, CCIE No. 11293

CCNP Enterprise Design ENSLD 300-420 Official Cert Guide: Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks

Anthony Bruno

Steve Jordan

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Anthony Bruno, CCIE No. 2738, is an architect and technical resource manager with British Telecom (BT) with more than 27 years of experience in the internetworking field. Previously, he worked for International Network Services (INS) and Lucent Technologies, and he was a captain in the U.S. Air Force. He has consulted for many enterprise and service provider customers in the design, implementation, and optimization of large-scale networks. Anthony leads architecture and design teams in building next-generation networks for customers.

Anthony completed a master of science degree in electrical engineering at the University of MissouriRolla in 1994 and a bachelor of science in electrical engineering at the University of Puerto RicoMayaguez in 1990. For the past 20 years, he has coauthored five editions of the CCDA Official Cert Guide for Cisco Press.

Outside work, Anthony enjoys running marathons and Spartan obstacle races, and he has finished seven Ironman distance triathlons. He is also an avid genealogist and ancestry tree researcher. Anthony also enjoys piloting his Mavic Pro drone during trips.

Steve Jordan, CCIE No. 11293, is a principal architect with J. Network Architects and has 23 years of experience in the field of internetworking. For the past 10 years, Steve has specialized in data center and network security architectures involving compute, network, security, storage, and virtualization. Over the years, Steve has worked with many enterprise and service provider customers in both presales and postsales engineering and architecture roles, and he has worked at several Cisco Gold Partners. He has extensive experience in data center and security architecture design and has implemented solutions in many financial, energy, retail, healthcare, education, and telecommunications industries. Steve is a 15-year triple CCIE in the tracks of Routing & Switching, Storage Networking, and Data Center. His other certifications include CCNA, CCNP Enterprise, VMware VCIX6-NV, and VCP6-NV.

Steve lives in Houston, Texas, and when he is not working on technology, he can be found traveling to new places, homebrewing, and trading stocks.

Over the past 14 years, Steve has coauthored three editions of the CCDA Official Cert Guide.

Kevin Yudong Wu, CCIE No. 10697 (Routing & Switching and Security), is a senior network consultant at British Telecom (BT). He has been engaged as a leading engineer in various network design projects, including LAN, WLAN, data center, and network security with BTs customers. Before joining BT, Kevin worked as customer support engineer at Cisco High Touch Technical Support (HTTS), supporting both Cisco LAN switching and security products. He holds masters degrees in both computer science (University of Texas at Arlington, 2003) and materials engineering (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1995).

James Hill, CCIE No. 29455, CISSP, is a highly respected security professional with a career spanning 25 years in the field of IT. Currently, he is the co-owner of H5 Strategic Alliances, LLC, an IT consulting firm, and serves as the chief technology officer. H5 is committed to providing an intelligent IT mindset while providing expert-level professional services. H5s focuses includes cybersecurity, network access control, architectural design, implementation, and support. James has designed and implemented infrastructure and security solutions at several Fortune 500 companies within the United States. James has held the CISSP certification since 2004 and CCIE Security certification since 2011.