Course Faculty

Scott Smith, RCDD, CCNA, MCSA is a consultant, network architect and telecommunications trainer. He is the owner of Vertex Consulting, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in computer networking and data communications. The company's goal is to provide professional consulting and training services to clients based on extensive experience in data communications, voice and video networks, network management and design consulting. Specific specialty areas include Microsoft systems administration, internetworking implementation incorporating routers, firewalls and switches, long range planning, telecommunications cabling systems design, requests for proposal, vendor/product evaluations and project management. Mr. Smith has also conducted over 100 public and private seminars on specialized topics in telecommunications and networking. Mr. Smith was previously the Data Communications Manager at the University of Colorado - Boulder. He was solely responsible for the design, installation, management and support of all major data networks on the campus. He also selected a 12000 line PBX for the campus, headed the office automation networking group and supervised the installation of over 100 departmental LANs, many of them Ethernet, Apple/Talk and/or Novell-based. Additional work included implementing local area and wide area voice and data networks, firewall setups, router configuration and Microsoft networking design, implementation and support. Mr. Smith's protocol expertise encompasses both WAN and LAN access protocols: Cisco, Microsoft, TCP/IP, Ethernet, FDDI, Internet, ATM, VLAN, VPN, DHCP, DNS and others. He has earned Master's degrees in Physics and Computer Science and is a member of the IEEE, BICSI and ACUTA. He is a Lucent Technologies certified consultant and has achieved recognition as a Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD) and LAN Specialist from the Building Industry Consulting Services International (BICSI). He is also certified as a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA).