The Route to Networking

Send us Fan Mail On our 10th episode of our Women in Tech spin-off series, Maddy Norris was joined by the fantastic Damaris Aminia, the Founder and Executive Director of Aminia Dada Innovations. Aminia Dada Innovations (the english translation meaning 'to believe young women') is a Kenyan woman-led organisation that works towards the promotion, protection and realisation of inclusive dig...

Send us Fan Mail On our 99th episode, Charlie Draper was joined by Jose Moreno the Principal Engineer at Microsoft.  Jose has had a long career within the space, with over 20 years working in the industry, his focus being on IT infrastructure, especially in networking, server technologies, and virtualization, including public cloud IaaS with Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes. Charlie and Jose discuss...

Send us Fan Mail On our 98th episode, our Senior Vice President Antonio Costa was joined by Adrian ILIESIU the Senior Technical Leader at Cisco.  Adrian started his journey in Romania before moving to the USA., In between this, he lived in a variety of different places across the globe. He talks to us about his experience working in a variety of locations in different networking-based roles. Adria...

Send us Fan Mail Our Head of Enterprise USA, Harry Green was joined by Rick Stevens, the Solution Architecture Manager at Presidio. Rick delves deeper into how Automation is really going to support the shortage of staff in the industry. He sees Automation being a hyper-growth technology that is going to touch every other technology. It will come to a point where people are looking at how they can...

Send us Fan Mail Our Head of Enterprise USA, Harry Green was joined by Ian Strimback the Network Solutions Architect at Presidio Federal.  The pair have various conversations surrounding hiring trends in the space, including what they look for in a candidate and the struggles they are facing within recruitment. Ian talks to us about the process of starting a business and making connections within...

Send us Fan Mail On our 95th episode of The Route to Networking, we were joined by one of our Principal IP Network Consultants, Harry Stephenson and Matt Tyler, the VP of Strategic Innovation and Business Development at Wachter, Inc. During this episode, Matt discusses some of the biggest changes he’s seen in the industry since he started his career. The adoption of video is one of those changes,...

Send us Fan Mail This Thursday, our Co-Founder George Barnes was joined by Ronnie Wong. Ronnie is the Edutainer Manager at ITProTV, where he has been for the past 8 years. Ronnie started off at ITProTV as an Edutainer to progressing into the Edutainer Manager role within the last 7 months. During this episode, George and Ronnie discuss the best route into networking and emphasise that you should n...

Send us Fan Mail This Tuesday our host Maddy Norris, was joined by Gabrielle Hase the  Non-Executive Director and board advisor for both PLC and private companies including Ultra Commerce, Planks Clothing, K3 and Tate Galleries. Gabrielle discusses with us how Networking has a 'PR problem', and how and why we should be marketing it differently - to help us have more of a balanced and div...

Send us Fan Mail This Thursday our Senior Vice President Antonio Costa, was joined by Luis Garcia Jr. Luis is the Associate Consulting Engineer at CDW. Before he fell into this position, Luis has been in various IT roles, including a Help Desk and a Security Operations Center Analyst said & Network & Security Administrator.   Even before Luis started working in the space, he has been passi...

Send us Fan Mail Today our Senior Vice President was joined by Trevor Spires, the Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS.  Trevor is a technology professional with 10+ years working as a consultant and pre-sales architect in the web software and IT infrastructure space. In his spare time, he does content creation around networking-related topics, including YouTube videos and blogs. Trevor helps us underst...

Send us Fan Mail Today on the Route to Networking podcast our Senior Fibre Consultant Aaron Batten was joined by Tony Hughes the CEO of 4th Utility. The pair delve into discussing all things Fibre, including some of the challenges the industry is currently facing- one of those concerns being digital inclusion.  They address the importance of ensuring that everyone has internet access, and express...

Send us Fan Mail Today our Infrastructure & Cloud Consultant Francesca Denoon was joined by Stephanie Inzalaco, the Director of Global On Demand Services at ePlus. Stephanie talks to us about her interesting career which lead to her into being in the position she's in today. We learn about some of the challenges she's faced along the way, including becoming in a management position a...

Send us Fan Mail Our Director James Dean was joined by Peter Hase the Director at Megapor &Facilitator at Force Management. Peter has had a long history in the Networking industry and has built long-term and scalable value across many global technology segments. James and Peter delve into discussing current trends within the technology space from a sales perspective.  The jump into the discuss...

Send us Fan Mail Today on the Route to Networking podcast we were joined by the George duo, our Co-Founder & Director George Barnes, and George Koukis, the Lead Exam Program Manager at Cisco.  George Koukis talks to us about how he found moving to the UK and adapting to the culture after moving from Greece, as well as why he decided to make this change. He also provides advice to anyone thinki...

Send us Fan Mail Today our host Maddy Norris welcomed Silvia Saldana, the Transport network manager at Telia Company onto our Women in Tech spin-off series. Silvia talks to us about her unique perspectives, including that being a minority isn't nessecairly a bad thing. With her positive outlook, she shares with us how being a minority can be used to your advantage, by enabling you to stand ou...

Send us Fan Mail This Tuesday on the Route to Networking podcast, Louis Parratt our IP UK Consultant was joined by Muhammad Rafi a Sr. Network Engineer at Cisco. Muhammad has worked in the networking space for over 10 years now and is passionate about all things tech, however in particular Network Automation.  Although his job role does not involve automation, he talks to us about the importance o...

Send us Fan Mail This Thursday our DACH Network Consultant, Charlie Draper was joined by Christian Scholz, the Senior Consultant Network & Security (Juniper). Christian talks to Charlie about some of the exciting technology he's working with including home IoT systems. He tells us some exciting stories about how he's programmed it in his house and uses it for everything from switchin...

Send us Fan Mail This Tuesday our SVP Antonio Costa was joined by David Alicea, the Systems Architect at Cisco. David started his Networking journey back in 2005 as a Helpdesk Technician at DeVry University, where he worked his way up the ranks over the course of 6 years. Since then he’s been in a couple of Network Engineer roles until he fell into his current position.  David talks to us about hi...

Send us Fan Mail This Thursday on the Route to Networking podcast, Ben Davies our Principal Network Consultant at Hamilton Barnes was joined by Vikash Ramnewash. Vikash Ramnewash is the Managing Director at Deutsche Telekom. Vikash has had an interesting history in the Networking space. He’s been part of a variety of impressive companies such as BT and Juniper Networks. From Vikash being in a mana...

Send us Fan Mail This Tuesday our Networking & Security Consultant - Jake Brown, was joined by Dmitriy Ashmarin, the Site Reliability Engineer at Cisco.  In today's episode, Dmitry talks to us about his journey into the world of networking, from when he first got started which led him to where he is today.  Jake & Dmitry get stuck into the tech, talking about how to get started in Pyt...

Send us Fan Mail This Thursday on the Route to Networking our Head of Enterprise USA was joined by Betal Ozkan, the Principal Architect at Presidio. Betal talks to us about his career, including the transition from working at AWS to a Networking Security based role.  We learn about what technology you should be keeping your eye on if you're just starting out in the space, as well as what tech...

Send us Fan Mail Coming up in today's episode, our Head of Enterprise USA was joined by Mladen Milanovic, the Vice President of Engineering of Presidio.  Mladen and Harry discuss how much weight being client-facing holds,  and whether this is an essential part of building new and strong professional relationships. As Mladens focus is on Contact Centres, which is revolved around being remote,...

Send us Fan Mail This Thursday on the Route to Networking podcast, our Vice President Antonio Costa was joined by Jason Gooley. Jason has over 25 years of experience in the industry and currently works as a Technical Evangelist for the Worldwide Enterprise Networking Sales team at Cisco Systems. Alongside his role, Jason is a  Public Speaker, a 6 x published Cisco Press Author, a developer of CCIE...

Send us Fan Mail For our 80th episode of the Route to Networking podcast, Harry a Principal Network Consultant on the USA team, was joined by Jason Belk, the Senior Technical Advocate at Cisco.  Jason started his Cisco journey back in 2010 as an intern, following that jumped into a couple of roles in between but ultimately returned there between 2011-2018 then again in 2019 where he has been ever...

Send us Fan Mail Our Managing Consultant Billy Holloway was joined by Mathew Crawford the Head of Wireless at Glide UK.  Matthew talks to us about how different qualifications enabled him to learn different skills. He tells us how his degree enabled him to learn critical thinking, whilst certifications filled in the gaps that uni can't provide. He recommends what route into the industry may b...