By Beth Schultz, Paul Desmond and Michael Cooney
Network World, 07/23/01

Network professionals support all sorts of intriguing organizations. In this annual feature about the coolest networking jobs you hold, we looked for professionals engaged in the cutting edge of technology. If your job is as interesting as any of the ones profiled here, let us know and perhaps we'll profile you. Send an e-mail to jbort@nww.com or fill out the short form here.

Making the military mightier

Jeffrey Pound, CTO of the Air Force Research Laboratory, helps keep the Air Force on the screaming edge.

For most of his 42 years, Jeffrey Pound has lived in Dayton, Ohio, within a few minutes' drive of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Military aircraft from B-52s to F-16s piercing the skies have been as much a fixture in his life as hot, humid summers.

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Serving up smackdowns

WWF New Media's Gerry Louw and his team use video to keep wrestling fans in the fold.

On a Monday in late April, Gerry Louw, CTO for World Wrestling Federation Entertainment's New Media Network, is sitting in his corner office, the one with the XFL Hitmen football shirt hanging on the hook and the four boxes containing Stone Cold Steve Austin electronic action figures perched on a top shelf. Louw is answering a reporter's questions when the phone rings. On the line is the New Media Network president, seeking figures on capital expenditures.

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Super-sized management challenge

Steve Kerney, network manager for NASA contractor United Space Alliance, keeps critical space shuttle launch systems running.

From the moment you enter the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., you're struck by the enormity of it all.

After all, the first things you see are a 209 foot-by-110-foot painting of the U.S. flag - each star stretches 6 feet across - adorning one wall of a 525-foot-high space shuttle storage facility and a full-size model space shuttle jutting into the sky at the nearby visitors center.

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