To borrow a phrase from Wil Wheaton – I’m just a geek. I’ve been in the IT game about 25 years rotating between vendorworld and internalITworld. I currently work for Nike as the Director of Wireless and dig the hell out of it. This page is in no way whatsoever associated with Nike, just context. It is mine alone. That said, I was fat dumb and happy at my last company (Aruba), Nike came calling and wooed me away – so it was a choice and risk to make the jump. I do not understand or follow any sports, aside from boxing, which Nike doesn’t have a lot to do with….so a lot of analogies are lost on me at work.
I picked up the name BionicRocky because I have a medical implant called a Spinal Cord Stimulator that is wired to my spinal column to attenuate pain signals and reduce pain from a nasty back injury. It was built by Advanced Bionics, I needed a new handle and Bob’s your uncle, bionicrocky it was. Please note that I will not be taking pity on you puny humans when we cyborgs complete our global domination.
I specialize in wireless of all stripes, currently 802.11 stuff, as well as general networking and information security. I’m a certification hound, so constantly studying for the next test. I do them to help re-affirm my knowledge, challenge myself, and learn. You have to stop and sharpen the axe sometimes or you’ll have a hard time chopping down trees. I’m honored to be CWNE #286, an ACDX, and a CISSP and recently did CWISA and finally did ECSE. Because I’m an RF nerd, I got my HAM Technician ticket (W1iFi) <-see what I did there?
We live in the Bethany neighborhood of Portland, Oregon – barely. We did what all good hipsters do and moved to the burbs to be closer to my work. We are baaaareeellly a Portland zipcode, but dammit, I will say Portland. Yes, Portland is as goofy as people say. No, we don’t want you to move here. We’ve two daughters, Emily, and Sage who are happily out of the nest making amazing lives for themselves with amazing soul mates. They are both artists and beautiful souls. Our son Jack left the nest a few years ago as well! Like his sisters he is a rad artist, fantastic human, and has a wonderful partner. I collect hobbies, currently – Collecting records (primarily Stax Records and other Northern Soul, Punk, 1st Wave Ska, and the dulcet tones of Mr. Elvis Costello), Flying and crashing RC Planes, classic arcade and console games, backpacking, and riding or fixing both classic and shiny new Vespa motor scooters (before you ask, they go 50Mph and 85Mph respectively), and the overuse of parenthesis. My wife Desiree is Senior Manager of a support organization for a SaaS company that does drone stuff, so it’s a fairly tech household. It’s pretty rad having your soulmate work in the same industry, makes for good sounding board time and makes it easier to empathize with each other. “What’s wrong honey?” “Certificates” “Oh sweetie, let me go get you some wine”. We also have a wonderful lump of snoring flatulence that is apparently an English Bulldog named Veronica Mars Underfoot Gregory (Ronnie). They are the reason I get up in the morning. Well them and my Flax Oatmeal (like I said, we are in Portland).
So that’s me.
My social junk:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rockycissp
http://www.twitter.com/bionicrocky
AGAIN – This page is in NO WAY, whatsoever, associated with or representative of Nike. It is mine alone, I just mention they are my employer by way of full disclosure.