Kackie Charles

Kackie Charles, MCSE, MCT has been working with Windows NT since 1995 and has been Microsoft Certified since 1996. Her previous experience includes instructional and management positions at New Horizons Computer Learning Center, and Unisys Corporation where she was enterprise architect for the Navy Standard Integrated Personnel System (NSIPS) project. NSIPS is a global Windows NT network using every kind of network connectivity imaginable, from sneaker-net to RAS and VPN. She is now the owner of KCSE, LLC, a network design firm in New Orleans. Kackie is the technical editor of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Networking and Teach Yourself Windows Networking in 24 Hours, second edition.

Kackie Charles

Kackie Charles, MCSE, MCT, has been working with Windows NT since 1995, and has been Microsoft certified since 1996. Kackie was the principal instructor at New Horizons Computer Learning Center from 1995 to 1998, and joined Unisys Corporation as a network design engineer in 1998, where she was an enterprise architect for the Navy Standard Personnel System program. Kackie was recognized for her work on NSIPS by the Naval Reserve Information Systems Office and was presented with the Unisys Award for Excellence. In 1999, Kackie started Kackie Charles Systems Engineering, through which she actively supported the NSIPS program as part of the Systems Engineering/Deployment group. As part of this team, she supported the implementation of NSIPS software on over 400 servers and over 4000 workstations worldwide. In March 2000, Kackie joined Woosh! in Palo Alto, CA, as an IT Specialist.

Kackie is the technical editor of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Networking and Teach Yourself Windows Networking in 24 Hours, Second Edition.