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://twitter.com/etherealmind 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/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.
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://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, 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
