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://twitter.com/etherealmind to follow me there.

I host the Packet Pushers Podcast – you can subscribe on iTunes by clicking the logo



You can subscribe to Packet Pushers Podcast on iTunes with this link or using http://feeds.packetpushers.net/PacketPushersPodcast RSS Feed for other types of Podcast clients. We have also setup a website at http://packetpushers.net for full details on the podcast.

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, to Project Mala (school in rural India) and to Kiva, a microfinance initiative.

Wynstones School 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 the interior 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/lender/etherealmind 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 as a protest.

Project Mala

I also support a very small, and very personal charity known as Project Mala. This school provides education in rural India to people who cannot afford to take time to go to school. Many families have young children working so that they can eat.
Project Mala

Contact Me

I 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://twitter.com/etherealmind.

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, analysis, consultancy and services. Please feel free to contact me or email myetherealmind — at __ gmail-com and we can discuss your requirements.