The Route to Networking

Send us Fan Mail Our Director James Dean, was joined by Ste Ashton. Ste is currently leading Broadband, 5G and wider Connectivity for WCC, whilst working as the Business Lead at nexGworx. Ste talks to us about the work he is currently doing surrounding 5G,  some of the discussions involving his work around 5G private networks, and why they have been introduced.  The pair discuss the current skills...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of The Route to Networking podcast, our Principal Network Consultant Harry Green was joined by Chris Cell, the Solutions Domain Manager at CDW.   Chris highlights the importance of being an active listener and being able to listen to understand, not to respond. A lot of the time people will listen and be waiting to respond back with an argument rather than actually...

Send us Fan Mail On our 6th episode of our Women in Networking spin-off series, Maddy Norris was joined by Prakriti Karthauser.   Prakriti is the Senior Platform Engineering Manager at Vodafone, with a long background in Networking, she’s now moved to working around Cloud. Prakriti was also the TechWomen 100 winner in 2019 and is experienced in Finance, Managed Services and Consultancy sectors.   ...

Send us Fan Mail Today on The Route to Networking podcast, one of our Principal Infrastructure & Cloud Consultants on the Contract team, Jack Haine sat down with Mark Ellis, the Consultancy Manager at CDW.   For the last 4 years, Mark has been at the forefront of some incredible services that CDW has to offer. He talks us through the projects they are currently working on and where he sees the...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, our Senior USA Consultant Harry Green was joined by Greg Williams.   Greg has been in the industry for over 30 years now, being in many senior positions along the way, and is now the Director of Service Delivery at All Covered. He walks us through his experience from where it all started in his first job in tech as a sales guy to where he is today.  He helps us...

Send us Fan Mail Harry Green had the pleasure of being joined by Jordan Villarreal, the Technical Advocate at NS1 in today's episode of the Route to Networking podcast.  Jordan highlights the importance of getting hands-on experience to help you learn and progress in your career, he talks about his route into the industry and his recommendations.  In such a demanding industry, Jordan discusse...

Send us Fan Mail Our Co-Founder & Director George Barnes was joined by Adrian Farrel the Owner of Old Dog Consulting, the author of Tales from the wood, he works as Chair of L2SM and I2NSF working groups at IETF’. During his career, Adrian has worked as the IETF Routing Area Director at Huawei and the IETF Routing Area Director at Juniper Networks, he talks to us about his experience working f...

Send us Fan Mail Maddy Norris was joined by Kori Younger, the Associate systems engineer at Cisco.  After speaking with Rita Younger in episode 2, we were lucky enough to get the opportunity to speak with her amazing daughter Kori.  As someone fairly new to the space, Kori tells us about her experience being a woman in a very male-dominated industry,  both the highs and lows.  Kori speaks about ho...

Send us Fan Mail On our fourth episode of our Women in Tech spin-off series, our host Maddy Norris was joined by Betty DuBois. Betty is the Chief Detective at Packet Detectives, she is a Packet Analyst focusing on network assessments, fault isolations, network analysis equipment deployments, and knowledge transfers. Betty helps provide guidance on the best route to get your career in networking ki...

Send us Fan Mail Our Co-Founder & Director George Barnes had the pleasure of being joined by A. J. Murray. A.J. Murray is a Sr. Engineer LAN/WAN/Security at Presidio. Additionally, he writes articles, is a Cisco Champion and VMware vExpert, a teacher AND is also the creator and co-host of The Art of Network Engineering Podcast. With so many amazing achievements and stories to tell, George &amp...

Send us Fan Mail On the third episode of our Women in Networking spin-off series, Maddy Norris was joined by Lidia Vasileva. Lidia is a Solutions Engineer at VMware, with a background in Network Engineering, she is currently specializing in Software Defined Networking and Data Center technologies. Lidia is also a member of the PreSales Collective, a content creator, and mentor to the community. Du...

Send us Fan Mail This Thursday on the Route to Networking podcast, our Director James Dean was joined by Ioannis Theodoridis. Ioannis is an experienced Telecommunications Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry, he is currently working as the Deputy Head of Networks at the Bank of Greece. In the episode, the pair talk about how automation can be incorporated to simp...

Send us Fan Mail This Tuesday our Managing Network Consultant, Billy Holloway was joined by Sam Defriez.  Sam has been in the Networking space for many years now, where he started out in a BT Technical Support role back in 2005. Since then he has made his way up into senior roles, which has led him into his current position at Youfibre as Director of Networks. Over the years Sam has completed a wh...

Send us Fan Mail This Thursday our Co-Founder & Director George Barnes, was joined by Ethan Jackson. Ethan has been in the Networking industry for 7 years now where he started out as an Apprentice Network Engineer. Since then, he’s moved his way up and out of Apprenticeship roles, into higher positions and is now currently working as a Network Engineer. Ethan talks to us about his route into t...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode Billy Holloway, our Principal Network Consultant at Hamilton Barnes was joined by Laura Catalina. Laura has been in the Networking space for 14 years now, where she started out as a NOC Engineer. Since then she has progressed throughout her career at different companies and in various different roles’, she is now a Networking Engineer at hSo. During this ep...

Send us Fan Mail For the second episode of our spin-off series of the Route to Networking, orientated purely around women in the Networking space, our host Maddy Norris was joined by Rita Younger.  Rita has worked in the Network Engineering industry for over 30 years, during her career she has worked as a consultant, a Data Center Solution Architect, and Technical Trainer at Cisco Systems, and is...

Send us Fan Mail This Tuesday, our Head of Enterprise Networking Security Zack Mount, was joined by Johannes Hertel. Johannes is the System Engineering Senior Manager at Juniper Networks. His role is to build and transform his team towards software sales and create synergies across accounts in DevOps, IT Cloud, TelcoCloud, CUPS, and oRAN. During the podcast, the pair look into Artifical Intelligen...

Send us Fan Mail Our Principal Network Consultant Ben Davies was joined by Marius Venter.  Marius has worked in the Networking space for almost 25 years and is passionate about business drivers and solutions that solve real-world problems. He likes to think out of the box and is never content with the obvious, this is reflected in his episode where he shares a fair few of his controversial opinion...

Send us Fan Mail Sam Jevans, our head of Enterprise Networking at Hamilton Barnes, was joined by Joel Desaulniers. Joel is a  Solutions Architect who designs cloud-based, technical solutions for the Canadian Federal Government. Joel talks to us about all things Cloud. We learn about the best qualifications to get you started in this space, to how he sees Cloud technologies advancing in the future....

Send us Fan Mail This Thursday, our USA Consultant Harry Stephenson was joined by Marlon Bledsoe.  Marlon has been at Frontier Communications since 2014 where he started as a Senior Network Planning Engineer, since then he has worked his way up the grapevine and is now the Director.  In such a technical space with technology constantly evolving and advancing, how do you keep your skills current? ...

Send us Fan Mail For our 63rd episode, George Barnes was joined by Danny Wade, an Engineer atNetCraftsmen.  Danny has been working within the Enterprise Networking space for almost 10 years now and is skilled in Cisco Networking, Cisco DNA Center, Python, and REST API. Danny talks to us about what drove his initial passion for Networking, and the skills he's learned along the way. He helps th...

Send us Fan Mail Today on the Route to Networking podcast, our Co-Founder & Director George Barnes, was joined by Tim McConnaughy, the Customer Solutions Architect at Aviatrix. Tim has been in the Networking industry for 22 years now, where he started out as a Technical Support Representative at Continental Visinet. Since then he has progressed into senior roles at  Cisco, and is now at Aviatr...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, our Senior USA Consultant Harry Green was joined by John Cavanaugh.  John has been in the industry for nearly 40 years now, he walks us through his experience working at Cisco during the early 90s, learning about his time participating in some of the companies' huge developments which had led them to be in the position they are today.  Later in his ca...

Send us Fan Mail This Thursday on the Route to Networking podcast, our Co-founder & Director George Barnes was joined by Guy Morrell, the CISO and Head of Networks at The Francis Crick Institute.  Guy has been at The Francis Crick Institute for 7 years now, originally starting out at a Network Team Lead back in 2015, working his way up to Chief Information Security Officer. He has been in the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first episode of our spin-off series of the Route to Networking, orientated purely around women in the Networking space. For our first episode, our host Maddy Norris was joined by Lexie Cooper, the  Avionics Integration Engineer at Blue Origin.  Lexi talked us through her experiences as a woman in the Networking industry, and the struggles she has faced making her w...