Steve Jordan, CCIE No. 11293, is a principal architect with J. Network Architects and has 26 years of experience in the field of internetworking. For the last 16 years, Steve has specialized in data center and network security architectures involving compute, network, security, storage, and virtualization. Over the years, Steve has consulted with many enterprise and service provider customers in both pre-sales and post-sales engineering and architecture roles, along with working at several Cisco Gold Partners. He has extensive experience in data center and security architecture design and has implemented solutions in many energy, financial, gaming, healthcare, hospitality, and telecommunications industries. Steve is a 20-Year triple CCIE in the tracks of Enterprise Infrastructure, Storage Networking, and Data Center. His other certifications include CCNA, CCNP Enterprise, VMware VCIX6-NV, and VCP6-NV.
Steve lives in Houston, Texas, and when he is not working on technology, Steve can be found traveling to new places, enjoying sporting events, attending concerts, and trading stocks.
For the past 17 years, Steve has also coauthored CCNP Enterprise Design ENSLD 300-420 Official Cert Guide: Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks and three editions of the CCDA Official Cert Guide.