Building Your I.T. Career: A Complete Toolkit for a Dynamic Career in Any Economy, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

I want to thank my editor, Mary Beth, for seeing enough in my articles to track me down and for patiently listening to all my tangential stories during our phone calls. Thank you for second (and third) chances.

A special thanks to Barbara Lynch, my boss, at Blue Cross. Thank you for putting up with my eccentricities and allowing me to create solutions for you for five years. I learned as much during those years as any time in my life.

To everyone at Pearson, Prentice Hall, and Cisco Press—in particular, Chris Cleveland for saying I was a “good writer.” All my bravado and pseudoconfidence stripped away, that is something every writer yearns to hear from an editor.

Thank you to my past employers, clients, mentors, and peers—you ...