Mike Storm

Director of Network and Security Engineering

Cisco CCIE, Cisco CCSI, CCSP, CCNP, and CCDP, Cisco Security Specialist: Firewall, VPN and IPS Specialist, Cisco MARS and NAC Expert Practitioner, NSA/CNSS INFOSec Professional, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Microsoft MCT, Microsoft MCSE, Novell MCNE and Novell CNI, CTT+

  • Invited speaker/presenter at the Cisco Networkers Conference for 4 years
  • Published Author and Video Expert for Learnkey
  • Author and subject matter expert of many of the Cisco Multimedia and Online Content for Cisco Partners (PEC) for the CCNA, CCNP, and CCSP programs.

Career Highlights:

  • Seventeen (17) years as an Enterprise-level consultant focused on: INFOSec Security Solutions and Compliance Architectures, Multi-Layer Internetwork Solutions Architectures, DR, Business Continuity and System Criticality assessment for Fortune 100 and 500 companies
  • Experience includes extensive consulting and innovation in Network and Security Systems Architecture, Designing and Deploying Systems Management Solutions and Network Security Solutions for Companies such as Honeywell, GE, Boeing, Intel and AT&T
  • Instructor specialization includes: Information Security Systems, Penetration Testing and Counter-Hacking, Cisco Active-Defense Security, Intrusion Prevention Systems, Cisco Campus and Scalable Network Design, Microsoft Systems Solutions, Management, Exchange, and Active Directory Design and Implementation
  • MCSE Charter Member 1993, MCSE Early Achiever 2000 and 2003
  • Thirty-Six (36) published titles in Cisco Security and Cisco Networking, Wireless LAN Design and Implementation, Windows 2000 and 2003, Microsoft SMS and Microsoft Exchange
  • Founder of the "Immersion Learning System™" (ILS™) at Interface and lead architect of the Interface HardHat ™learning program for Cisco, Security and Windows Systems technologies

Classroom Objective:

"My focus is on the absolute success of the Student. Technical Mastery is the fundamental component of success in the IT discipline. Students achieve Technical Mastery through a repeated and practical hands-on exposure to real-life scenarios and situations that duplicate the inter-workings of live enterprise systems and technologies. Teaching a Student 'How' to do something is a very small part of the process, Teaching a Student to understand 'Why?' and 'What-if?" is where the real "Mastery" happens."