Acknowledgments

During the development of this book, I had the privilege to work in three different groups at Cisco. Thank you to all of my teammates in Enterprise Systems Engineering, the Government Systems Unit, and Advanced Services who have lent me your professional acumen and loyal friendship over the years.

I'd like to thank Mike O'Shea for his support and friendship over the course of developing this book. Mike's sound professional and personal advice have helped me endure the ebbs and flows of sanity while balancing a challenging workload and added development responsibilities associated with writing this book.

Thank you to Pavan Reddy, one of the sharpest technical minds in Advanced Services, who was instrumental in helping me outline and define this scope of work and whose technical advice and words of encouragement throughout the course of developing this book have proven to be invaluable.

And on that note, many thanks go out to Andrew Cupp and Brett Bartow for their patience, understanding, and support during this process. An author could not have asked for a more professional team to work with while developing and publishing his work.