It's over. RSA 2009 San Francisco is in the can. It was a good show, the RSA staff does a nice job organizing this event with good speakers, good training and a centralized place to find food and hotels. Which is cool because Cisco Live 09 is going to be at this same exact spot in a few months.
I got to meet some great folks that I have worked with in the past and others that I look forward to working with in the future. That's the best part of these type of shows; the personal connections.
A massively huge thanks to all the folks that dropped by the Cisco booth to say hey. A great big thanks to the folks I did booth interviews with:
PGP: http://www.pgp.com/
Breaking Point: http://www.breakingpointsystems.com
RSA: http://www.rsa.com
VMWare: http://www.vmware.com
Phone Factor: http://www.phonefactor.com
Net Optics: http://www.netoptics.com
I interviewed these folks by choice because I thought they offered the coolest shipping technical solutions for engineers in the field today. go out there and check 'um out and see what you think. We will have video posted at http://www.cisco.com/go/techwisetv later on.
Now it's back to Milwaukee to detox from convention center food and get ready for a show on VOIP. We are looking to do something on PBX to VOIP migration and SIP Trunking. Whatta y'all think?
Jimmy Ray Purser
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Jimmy Ray Purser is the technical co-host for Cisco's TechWise and BizWise TV. Jimmy Ray also conducts advanced training for engineers across North America and Europe and regularly speaks at industry conferences such as VON, CeBIT, N+I, and Networkers. As a field engineer, Jimmy Ray experiences networking first hand behind the console or in the rack. He is an active member in the IEEE and the Ethernet Alliance and has designed, installed and tested numerous networks for Fortune 500 companies, the United States military and other institutions worldwide. He holds 3 U.S. patents for Ethernet security algorithms with two others pending and one defensive publication, as well as numerous other vendor certifications in networking and security.
Purser holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Southern Illinois University is currently pursuing a master of science degree in electrical engineering.