The Route to Networking

Send us Fan Mail Today on The Route to Networking podcast, our Senior Fibre Consultant, Max Penn, is joined by Richard Jackson. Richard has been at Openreach for 4 years now.  Richard started off as the Head of Programme Management Office, and has moved his way up in the company to the Principal of the Fibre First Strategy and Transformation. Richard helps us put in perspective how important Fibre...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Route to Networking podcast, our USA Consultant Harry Green was joined by Jeff Edstrom. Jeff has had over 20 years experience in the Networking industry, starting off as a Network Administrator at Excalibur Technology back in November 2000. Since then, he has worked his way up the ladder, with numerous different roles at some impressive companies, now being...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, our Head of Enterprise Networking Security, Zack Mount, was joined by Adrian Brookes. Adrian is a Networking Security Expert and has been in the industry for over 30 years.  He is currently working at Fortinet working as a Principal Consultant. The pair discuss all things Networking Security, including some of the biggest challenges the industry is facing,...

Send us Fan Mail On our 56th episode of the Route to Networking podcast, our Director James Dean was joined by  Federico Olivieri. Federico Olivieri is a Network Automation Engineer at Network to Code, and by no surprise discusses all things Automation in today's episode.  Federico helps advise Networking Engineers on how they can transition in a Network Automation role, as well as breaking d...

Send us Fan Mail On episode 55 of The Route to Networking podcast, our Director James Dean was joined by Stephen Paynter. Stephen has been in the industry for 26 years, originally starting out as a Customer Support Technician at MARi. Since then, he has built his way up into more senior roles and is now in a high-up position as an Automation Engineer at Network Bright. Stephen talks about the impo...

Send us Fan Mail On episode 54, our Co-Founder & Director George Barnes was joined by Stuart Clark the Senior Technical Leader Developer Advocate at Cisco. Stuart has had a long and interesting career in the Tech industry, starting out as an Information Technology Coach, working his way up the ranks doing Support Engineering, Network Infrastructure Engineering to now working at Cisco, one of t...

Send us Fan Mail This Thursday our Director James Dean, was joined by Tom Strickx, the Edge Network Technical Lead at Cloudflare.  'Things break, and normally at the most inconvenient times. It is vital to understand how to respond to things when they go wrong'. Tom tells us that the most important lesson that he's learned during his time in the industry, is that incident management...

Send us Fan Mail On the 52nd episode our Director, James Dean, was joined by  Jessica Meijer. Jessica is an international business professional, who has over 8 years of experience in Corporate & StartUp environments. She is currently at VodafoneZiggo as the Business Process Improvement/ Knowledge Specialist/ Communication (Agile WoW). Over her career, Jessica has not been shy to try out new op...

Send us Fan Mail For our 51st episode, our Director James Dean was joined by Fergus Iness, the CCO at Crosslake Fibre. James and Fergus speak all things Fibre. The pair discuss the evolution of Fibre over the last 10 years, highlighting some of the main changes, and how they can imagine this industry will continue to grow in the future. Find out how strong relationships and trust with your colleag...

Send us Fan Mail On our 50th episode of the Route to Networking podcast, James Dean had the pleasure of being joined by Pavel Odinstov, the Project Leader at Fastnetmon. Pavel is a Software Engineer with a passion for computer networks, with his work being orientated around delivering affordable DDoS protection. During the episode, the pair delve into a professional discussion around everything DD...

Send us Fan Mail For our 49th episode of the Route to Networking podcast, Director James Dean was joined by Raymond Maisano the Head of Australia and New Zealand at Cloudflare.  Raymond & James discussed what skills and personality traits make a good fit for someone looking to enter the industry.  Raymond highlights that having a passion for continuous learning and problem solving will take yo...

Send us Fan Mail This Tuesday our Head of Cyber Security, Lewis West had the pleasure of being joined by Sunil Karrir, the Information Security Analyst at Concentra Analytics. Sunil is an Information Security professional, he speaks with Lewis about the challenges he faced when trying to enter the Cyber Security industry.  They also discuss how a degree is not essential to starting out your career...

Send us Fan Mail Michal Dobrzynski is MBA qualified, and CCNP, CCNA, CCIE, CMgr certified and is currently the Technical Manager at Sky. In the 47th episode, James Dean was lucky enough to get the opportunity to talk with Michal about his experience completing these qualifications. it was insightful to learn from Michal that you should never give up, after failing his CCIE he walks us through how...

Send us Fan Mail George Barnes, the Co-Founder and Director at Hamilton Barnes, invited Chris Gilmour on to the show for the 46th episode of the podcast. Chris is an experienced CTO with over 20 years working in the networking industry, the majority of which are within International Tier 1 ISP's and award-winning Systems Integrators. He is currently working at Axians, as the CTO Service Provi...

Send us Fan Mail On episode 45, James Dean our Director at Hamilton Barnes had the pleasure of being joined by Mauro Mortali. Mauro is the Senior Manager at BT focusing on Strategy and Innovation.  Mauro delves into explaining the different routes to take when looking to improve a business, and how to establish and measure the main factors of success. He provides interview tips that help tie into...

Send us Fan Mail On the 44th episode of the Route to Networking podcast, Zack Mount, the Head of Enterprise Networking Security EMEA at Hamilton Barnes, invited Peter McGinnis on to the show. Peter is the Public Sector Security Engineering Manager at Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd. During this episode, Peter shares his thoughts surrounding the threats that are open to businesses through co...

Send us Fan Mail Hamilton Barnes' Director, James Dean was joined by Mark O'Leary, the Deputy Director, Strategic Planning and Service Management at Jisc on today's episode.  It was interesting to understand Marks's opinion surrounding how much weight certifications hold in comparison to a degree when he looks at hiring.   Mark has over 25 years of experience working within the...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 42, James Dean invited Malcolm Booden, the Founder of MNB Networks on to the show. The pair delve into various professional conversations surrounding SD-WAN, the Cloud, and numerous other hot and emerging technologies. Malcolm is a technology professional with over 20 years of experience as an Engineer, Consultant, Architect in the area of IT Network Connectivity, Cyber...

Send us Fan Mail This Thursday, James dean was joined by Aaron Glenn, the Managing Director at Predicted Paths BV.  The pair delve into where his journey began in the Networking industry, his transition into a different role and where his passions lie.  Learn more from Aaron Twitter: https://twitter.com/networkservice LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaglenn/ Predicted Paths:  predictedpaths....

Send us Fan Mail On our 40th episode of The Route to Networking, James Dean had the pleasure of being joined by Patrick Sumby, The VP of Global Engineering at Sohonet.   During the episode, they discuss his time at university and how that prepped him for his career, they touch a little more on what he does at Sohonet, and he gives his best golden nugget of advice for any young Engineers looking to...

Send us Fan Mail Today on The Route to Networking podcast, our host Kieran Waite, Senior Cyber Security Consultant was joined by Rod Beattie, the Head of Information Technology at BFBS.   They discuss Rod’s long history in the Networking space, whether University is a good starting point or not and what he does at BFBS.    He also shares his best advice to any young aspiring Network Engineers who...

Send us Fan Mail On our 38th episode of the Route to Networking podcast, George Barnes was joined by Anton Karneliuk, the Network Manager at The Hut Group. You can find Anton on LinkedIn via: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-karneliuk/ Want to stay up to date with new episodes? Follow our LinkedIn page for all the latest podcast updates! Head to: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-route-to-netw...

Send us Fan Mail On today's episode, James Dean had the pleasure of being joined by Tom Nadeau, the Vice President, and Chief Cloud Architect at Spirent Communications.  Tom talks about how he got started in the industry, what he looks for in a team member and delves into more about what they are working on over at Spirent.   He gives some great advice for anyone looking to kickstart their ca...

Send us Fan Mail On episode 36 of the Route to Networking podcast, George Barnes was joined by the fantastic Roger Perkin, the Technical Architect at Computacenter.  You can connect with Roger on LinkedIn via: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rogerperkin/ Want to stay up to date with new episodes? Follow our LinkedIn page for all the latest podcast updates! Head to: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the...

Send us Fan Mail On the 35th episode of the Route to Networking podcast, Lewis West had the pleasure of being joined by James Dyson, the Chief Customer Officer at Reliance ACSN. To connect with James via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesdyson/ Want to stay up to date with new episodes? Follow our LinkedIn page for all the latest podcast updates! Head to: https://www.linkedin.com/company/...