Who Am I ?

Greg Ferro is Human Infrastructure for Cisco and Data Networking. He works freel­ance as a Network Architect and Senior Engineer /​ Designer, mostly in the United Kingdom and pre­vi­ously in Asia Pacific region. Currently focus­sing on Data Centre, Security and Application Networking tech­no­lo­gies and spend­ing a lot of time pon­der­ing design mod­els, build­ing oper­a­tional excel­lence and cre­at­ing busi­ness out­comes. He has spent time at fin­an­cial insti­tu­tions, ser­vice pro­viders, work­ing for resellers and dot coms, in both the lar­gish and smallish companies.

Greg has over 20 years in IT, and more than 12 years in net­work­ing and is Cisco CCIE #6920.

Writing this blog is com­monly to put some­thing back to the Internet com­munity because a little shar­ing can go a long way. (More about this here). I have some­thing of a pas­sion for writ­ing, but not much tal­ent for any­thing out­side of technology.

Social Media

You can find me on Twitter at @etherealmind  — go to http://​twit​ter​.com/​e​t​herealmind to fol­low me there.

Charity and Advertising

The advert­ising you see on the site cre­ates a little bit of money which is donated to my children’s school hall at Wynstones School and to Kiva, a microfin­ance ini­ti­at­ive. We have been fun­drais­ing for the school hall for nearly ten years and are still only half way there. We recently built the hall, but are unable to fin­ish until we can raise funds for the second tranche. I would be very grate­ful if you made a dona­tion at Just Giving to help. Even a small amount would be a great help.

Kiva

I have a pub­lic pro­file at KIVA http://​kiva​.org/​l​e​n​d​e​r​/​e​t​herealmind and you can see cur­rent level of dona­tions there. While I have reser­va­tions about Kiva since they have announced loans for first world coun­tries, I con­tinue to loan money to mainly African and Pacific lenders. I no longer donate money to Kiva itself.

Contact Me

He can be con­tac­ted at myether­e­al­mind { — ] gmail [ — } com (I’m sure you can put it back together) or use this con­tact form if you would like to get in touch. Or I am on Twitter at http://​twit​ter​.com/​e​t​herealmind.

What does Etherealmind mean ?

I have writ­ten a com­plete post on how I got the name and what it means.

For Hire — Authoring, Writing and Consultancy

Please go here for a com­plete list of writ­ing on the web. I am avail­able for freel­ance writ­ing, con­sultancy and ser­vices. Please feel free to con­tact me or email myether­e­al­mind — at _​_​ gmail-​​com and we can dis­cuss your requirements.

Here are some pic­tures of the School Hall

Wynstones School Hall April 2008