Howard Hooper, CCIE No. 23470, CCNP, CCNA, CCDA, JNCIA, works as a network consultant for his companies SYNCom Ltd. and Transcend Networks Ltd., specializing in network design, installation, and automation for enterprise and government clients. He has worked in the network industry for 10 years, starting his career in the service provider field as a support engineer, before moving on to installations engineer and network architect roles, working on small, medium, enterprise, and service provider networks.