About the Technical Editors

Michael Ashton is a Corporate Systems Engineer for Altiris. He has worked in technology for 15 years in a wide variety of positions in technical presales, consulting, network administration, technical support, publishing, and telecommunications.

Michael has been a technical editor for Que Publishing and Cisco Press. In addition, he has written articles for Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine , Smart Computing , Earthweb's Datamation , Y2K News , Computer Credible and several other publications . He can be reached at [e-mail] or [e-mail].

Jason Rader hails from the Sunshine State but sees very little of it. Security, telecom, and application/system development projects keep him quite busy. He owes all of his success to the patience of his wife, Julie, and the craziness of his boys, Chase and Zachary. Always looking for cool projects, Jason can be contacted at [e-mail].