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gearbit
has a dedicated staff of senior network analysts with experience in troubleshooting, design and implementation. Their background includes 911 emergency consulting, identifying the root cause of critical network problems. Our goal is to provide increased customer service through knowledge transfer and education of LAN, VoIP, WAN and Wireless technologies.
We work with organizations of various industries such as financial, education and industrial. Our in depth experience includes a diverse list of applications. We specialize in providing application analysis able to uncover problems in a fraction of the time. The results we offer increase the reliability and decrease response time, correcting critical problems.
We also focus on resolving critical network issues across many types of topologies.
Ray Tompkins, Founder, gearbit
Ray is a Senior Network Specialist with over 30 years experience in troubleshooting, design, and implementation. His background includes 911 emergency consulting, and identifying the root cause of critical network problems. His knowledge of network protocols (LAN, VoIP, WAN and WLAN) and how they work within the enterprise networks are the key in providing customer service though knowledge transfer and education.
HP Compaq
Ray was a member of a technical team that resolved critical network issues for Compaq Computer Corporation’s world wide network. This included problems determination for major issues, hard to find and hard to fix problems. Compaq Computer Corporation’s world wide network consisted of over 150,000 nodes, 3,000 plus routers and server farms that housed thousand of servers. Networks of this magnitude require specific expertise in diagnosing and resolving problems. He was called on for technical support to resolve the hard to resolve problems.
Chase Bank
Ray brought his in depth experience to assist with troubleshooting, design, and implementation of LAN and WAN infrastructure. He established the corporate communication protocol for business continuity issues such as 911 emergency consulting, identifying the root cause of critical networks, application issues and client to server problems. As a leader of the IT team Ray was routinely called on to conduct detailed analysis using specialized industry tools.
Ray can be reached at ray@gearbit.com
Casie North, Sales and Marketing Director/Project Manager, gearbit
Casie North has a long career in Residential Real Estate and Marketing. Having been a self-marketer and promoter in branding, she has a long history in being on the cutting edge of social media and networking. With a passion for design and a background in sales she is a believer in the power of the individual to achieve great things.
Her career definitely reflects our commitment and interest in personal development and never settling. Blessed with great mentors, she has developed a deep understanding of sales and media components.
Beginning work in the oil business and later moving into real estate for over 10 years, she now works with gearbit managing the tech team as well as sales, whether it is keeping up with current orders, projects, invoicing, shipments, installation or training, Casie can help in your search for more about gearbit.
Casie can be reached at casie@gearbit.com
Jay, Software Engineer, gearbit
Jay a software engineer is best known as the co-creator of Gearbox, it is a low cost network solution equipped with a packet engine that inspects every packet in the network stream, examining it for potential issues, and provides accurate detailed reports for network analysts and I/T professionals. Moreover, throughout his career he has been creating products that explore new metaphors, sometimes with far-reaching consequences. A graduate of the University of Texas, he also keeps technical interest in PowellsPix, Facebook Site Governance, and Watermark Communications Mobile Studio. His focus is on developing and optimizing networking features that take maximum advantage of the PC platform.
Jay can be reached at jay@gearbit.com
Lance Brieden, Level II Network Analyst, gearbit
Lance Brieden is a Level II Network Analyst at Gearbit. He has extensive experience in troubleshooting complex multi-layered enterprise architectures, including unified networks that support voice, data, video and cloud network infrastructures. He has expertise in prescriptive troubleshooting environments such as virtual private networking and security and wireless domains.
Lance is skilled in the configuration, implementation and support of LAN/WAN management systems, including networking monitoring, performance and response time analysis.
He has more than 20 years of experience in multiple computer programming languages, including C and C++, Excel, Perl, PHP, HTML, Javascript, CSS, SQL Database, Bash scripting, AWK and SED.
Lance can be reached at lance@gearbit.com
Eric Seagren, Lead Security Analyst, gearbit
Eric is a Lead Security Analyst at Gearbit. He joined the company in March 2010.
Eric has sixteen years of experience in the computer industry, with eight years spent in the financial services industry working for a fortune 10 company.
While working in the financial services industry he led a global network security program, implementing the first firewalls, network security monitoring and security policies.
His diverse background in information technology includes coordinating with server administration, serving on disaster recovery teams, and working as a business continuity coordinator. His areas of expertise include network vulnerability assessment and risk management responsibilities. He has served the majority of his career as a security engineer and IT risk analyst. Eric is familiar with a wide range of technologies including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, routers and switches, and log aggregation systems
Eric has worked on several books as a contributing author or technical editor, his credited works include;
· Netcat Power Tools (Syngress),
· How to Cheat at Configuring Open Source Security Tools (Syngress),
· Secure Your Network for Free (Syngress),
· Designing and Building Enterprise DMZ’s (Syngress),
· Firewall Fundamentals (Cisco Press),
· Configuring Checkpoint NGX (Syngress),
· Hacking Exposed: Cisco Networks (McGraw-Hill),
· Hardening Network Security (McGraw-Hill),
· Hardening Network Infrastructure (McGraw-Hill),
· How to Cheat at Securing Linux (Syngress),
· Next Generation SSH2 Implementation (Syngress),
· Snort IDS and IPS Toolkit (Syngress).
Eric can be reached at eric@gearbit.com