Mike McPhee is a Systems Engineer at Cisco living in New York, where he has worked for 4 years and focused on cyber security, switching and routing. Mike’s current role sees him consulting on security and network infrastructures, and he frequently runs clinics and delivers training to help get his customers up to speed.

Suffering from a learning addiction, Mike has obtained the following certifications along the way: CEH, CCIE R&S, CCIE Security, VCP6-DCV, CCIP, CCDP, ITILv3, and many others. In his free time, he can be found following his kids to soccer games and tournaments, traveling with his wife and kids, and scouting out his future all-grain beer homebrewing rig. He also spends considerable time breaking his home's network (it is all for science!), much to the family's dismay.

Prior to joining Cisco, Mike spent 6 years in the U.S. Navy and another 10 working on communications systems as a systems engineer and eventually architect for defense contractors, where he helped propose, design, and develop secure command & control networks and electronic warfare systems for the US DoD and NATO allies.