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Cisco Press Author | CCNA, CCNP, Sec+ | Think Like an Engineer
Shane S.

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I hold a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Technology Management, summa cum laude, AAS in Linux Network Administration, along with industry certifications including CCNP Security, CCNA, Cisco CyberOps Associate, CompTIA Linux+ and A+, EC-Council CND, and ITIL Foundation. I'm an author of Cisco Press's CCST Cybersecurity Cert Guide and the creator of Pearson's NIST CSF 2.0 Primer. I work as a network and security engineer and am building a burgeoning IT practice with my business...

I hold a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Technology Management, summa cum laude, AAS in Linux Network Administration, along with industry certifications including CCNP Security, CCNA, Cisco CyberOps Associate, CompTIA Linux+ and A+, EC-Council CND, and ITIL Foundation. I'm an author of Cisco Press's CCST Cybersecurity Cert Guide and the creator of Pearson's NIST CSF 2.0 Primer. I work as a network and security engineer and am building a burgeoning IT practice with my business partner.

For 9 years I taught cert courses like CCNA, CCNP, A+, and Sec+, along with skills in Linux, cybersecurity, and IT. Most recently, I taught at Mesa Community College in in-person, online, and in the lab. I guided high-performing high schoolers and adult students ranging from new graduates to grizzled professionals. Before MCC, I was a senior instructor training IT teams at Raytheon and other Fortune 500 companies. I spent years in help desk and escalated support roles, where I trained and mentored jittery new techs one-on-one. Before IT, I worked ten years in pharmacy, so I know firsthand what it takes to change careers and learn a technical field from the ground up.

My approach is hands-on. I teach how IT work actually happens. Students learn the exam stuff, but framed them the way it'll show up: decoding vexing configurations, reading noisy packet captures and messy logs, and working methodically instead of guessing. I give students direction rather than step-by-step answers and emphasize reasoning and people skills. In one-on-one tutoring, I meet everyone exactly where they are. My goal is for students to pass certification exams but also walk into their new IT job with the instincts, habits, and self-confidence that employers seek and the field demands. The mindset I want every student to leave with: "I don't know what this system is or what's wrong with it, but I have Google, my wits, and the deep end is my native habitat."

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Education

Northern Arizona University
Technology Managemen
Northern Arizona Univesity
Graduate Coursework

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  • Travel policy: Within 20 miles of Phoenix, AZ 85016
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CCNA (Cisco Engineering)

CCNA (Cisco Engineering)

I have taught CCNA and CCNP for 7 years, most recently as college faculty as a NetAcad partner and before that as a senior instructor training IT teams at Raytheon and other Fortune 500 companies. I hold CCNP Security, CCNA, CyberOps Associate, and other certifications, and I'm an author of the Cisco Press CCST Cybersecurity Cert Guide. I build Cisco automation tooling, including an HSRP and STP config generator (align those roots and primaries, I beg you!), a switchport security hardening generator, a physical-to-GNS3 topology replicator, and an interactive STP election trainer my students used to master root bridge and port role elections. You'll learn from someone who automates these configs because he knows exactly where they break by hand, though whether implementing spanning tree in JavaScript is a selling point remains to be seen.
Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

I'm a network and security engineer with CCNP Security, CySA+, Security+, CyberOps Associate, and CND certifications, an author of the Cisco Press CCST Cybersecurity Cert Guide, and the creator of Pearson's NIST CSF 2.0 Primer. I earned my bachelor's in Technology Management, preceded by an AAS in Linux Network Administration. As a tier 3 engineer at an MSP, I handled incident response, EDR, zero trust application control, and VPN and firewall management-- including shielding a client's Server 2008 relic from 800,000 RDP password guesses a day while they insisted on port forwarding 3389, a default allow, and no VPN (how would you resolve that ticket?). I've taught security for eight years, from IT teams at major corporations to college classrooms, delivered Wireshark, nmap, and ACL design webinars for hundreds of attendees, and today I prefer individualized training and spend lots of time refining attack surface assessment and OSINT tooling for a growing MSSP. My honeypots get more visitors than I do, and there we may even observe the script kiddie in its natural habitat (someone's honeypot), instinctively babbling CMD at a faux Bourne shell.
Information Technology

Information Technology

I've worked every rung of IT, from tier 1 to tier 3 escalations across dozens of MSP client environments, handling incident response, EDR, zero trust tooling, and firewall and VPN management, to network and security engineering at my own practice. I've taught IT topics for nearly nine years, training Fortune 500 IT teams and various allied military personnel as a senior private instructor and college faculty, covering CCNA, CCNP, Security+, CySA+, CASP+, CND, Linux+, RHCSA, and RHCE. I teach in person, online, and in labs. I earned a summa cum laude bachelor's in Technology Management and certifications including CCNP Security, CySA+, Security+, CCNA, Linux+, and A+, and I'm an author of the Cisco Press CCST Cybersecurity Cert Guide and Pearson's NIST CSF 2.0 Primer. During my MSP years I developed and refined our SOPs and created training materials and labs for tier 1 and 2 technicians and mentored coworkers through one-on-one shadowing: seeing their growth and successes was the best part of the job.
Networking (Computer)

Networking (Computer)

I've earned CCNP Security, CCNA, and CyberOps Associate certifications and a bachelor's in Technology Management, preceded by an AAS in Linux Network Administration, and I'm an author of the Cisco Press CCST Cybersecurity Cert Guide. I've taught networking for seven years in college classrooms, online, in corporate training for companies like Raytheon, and in Wireshark, nmap, and ACL design webinars for hundreds of attendees. As a tier 3 engineer supporting dozens of MSP client environments, I configured firewall ACLs, managed site-to-site and remote access IPsec and SSL VPNs, repaired HA firewall pairs, and chased connectivity problems with tcpdump, Wireshark, and firewall logs across pfSense, OPNsense, ASA, Firepower, and Sophos. I hardened networks in depth with redundancy, authenticated HSRP and OSPF, and locked-down IOS, and during my MSP years I developed and refined our SOPs and created training materials and labs for tier 1 and 2 technicians and mentored them one-on-one: seeing their growth and success was the best part of the job.
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