Susan Sales Harkins has been the Editor-in-Chiefof Microsoft Access, The Cobb Groups tips and techniques monthly journal on MS Access since 1994. Ken Hansen is a principal in HSC Consulting, Inc. and has over 20 years experience in the Information Systems area. He currently specializes in developing business solutions with Access, Visual Basic, Microsoft Office and SQL Server. Before becoming a consultant, Ken held various management positions, including that of Information Systems Director for a Fortune 500, worldwide holding company. Ken is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer. Tom Gerhart has been an independent consultant since 1993 when he retired from IBM. His current area of specialty is to design and develop business solutions based on Microsoft Office with a primary emphasis on the use of Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server. He has worked with all releases of Access, with a number of projects involving backend databases (including Oracle and Microsoft SQL). He has also worked with Visual Basic, including the development of ActiveX components. Tom does some training in addition to his consulting.
Chris Le, CCIE #5235, is a Technical Marketing Engineer for the Service Provider Line of Business for Cisco Systems. Chris provided DSL Internetworking Design, Implementation and Performance Engineering to several Service Providers. He has worked extensively on design and implementation in IP aggregation space and has provided training to engineers on leased line and broadband aggregation.
Sanjeev Mervana has over 10 years experience in networking and has been with Cisco Systems since 1998. A CCIE since 1998, Sanjeev was the Technical Leader in the Customer Support Organization at Cisco for resolving complex networking issues for customers before moving to the Technical Marketing Group. Since joining the Technical Marketing Group, Sanjeev established a lead in defining broadband architectures for the customers and has published various service architecture papers internally to Cisco as well as for customers. His primary job involves having architectural discussions with leading service providers to offer various value add services. Sanjeev has been a key contributor and instrumental in defining some of the requirements for next-generation products at the edge of the network.