Catherine’s Bio

Contents

*   Work Information

*   Favorite Links

*   Current Projects

*   Biographical Information

*   Personal Interests

*   Homage to my sister

 

Work Information

Job Title

Usually: Director – Technical Resources,  Global Knowledge

Temporary: United Nations Development Programme Volunteer

Key responsibilities

Usually: Manages instructors and equipment for GK.  Teaches Cisco courses.

Temporary: Teaches internetworking technologies to employees of the Ministry of Communications in Afghanistan

 

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Favorite Links

*   http://www.networksorcery.com/default.htm

 

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Current Projects

*   Helping Afghanistan through transfer of knowledge and capacity building in the field of Information Technology

 

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Biographical Information

Catherine is the Director of Technical Resources for Global Knowledge, Cisco’s largest worldwide training partner. Catherine is a Cisco Certified Systems Instructor (CCSI), Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) and a Cisco Certified Security Specialist (CSS-1).

 

Catherine has in-depth knowledge of routing technologies, security systems, and remote access.  Catherine internetworking career started as a LAN manager, promoted to WAN manager, and eventually becoming the nation-wide WAN manager for a federal department.  Catherine was the Master Instructor for the Building Cisco Remote Access Networks (BCRAN) and Managing Cisco Networks Security (MCNS) courses at Global Knowledge Network (Canada). To this day, Catherine still teaches courses: Managing Cisco Network Security, Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Advanced and Building Cisco Remote Access Networks.  Catherine has a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) with a major in Management Information Systems (M.I.S.).

 

Catherine has co-authored with Diane Teare the Cisco Press books Building Cisco Scalable Networks, ISBN 1-57870-228-3  and  Building Cisco Scalable Internetworks, ISBN 1-58705-084-6  available in January 2003.  She has also edited Building Cisco Remote Access Networks, ISBN 1-57870-091-4 .

 

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Personal Interests

*   Live

*   Love

*   Learn

 

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Homage to my sister

My sister Hélène is more than a big sister – she is a role model.  Hélène works for CARE Canada where she caught the “good-deed bug”.  Ever since I can remember, she was an inspiration to me.  Hélène, once more I wanted to follow in your footsteps.  Thanks big Sis.

 

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Last revised: Dec 8th 2002