Richard Holladay, JNCIA-JUNOS, CCNA, Ph. D.

An accomplished Software Developer with extensive professional software development and programming experience in more than 12 industries, including hospital, insurance, banking, mortgage, local government, finance, manufacturing, retail, university, and automotive markets. Strong ability to represent the voice of the customer to the project development team. An experienced Adjunct Professor, having taught thousands of students in over 8 colleges and universities. Maintains a strong following from students with a variety of socio-economic, ethnic, and sexual orientations. Holds CISCO Networking Academy Instructor certification for CCNA, CCNP and CCNA Security courses with over 15 years teaching experience and has received Advanced-Level, and Expert-Level Instructor Excellence awards from Cisco in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. These awards are given to the top 10% of Cisco Academy instructors world-wide based on student feedback and student performance on Cisco Certification exam scores. Extensive experience teaching other IT and software development courses including Assembler, COBOL, C, C++, Java, SQL Server, Visual Basic, Python, Network Security, Windows, Virtualization (VMware, Virtual Box), UNIX (Solaris, FreeBSD), and Linux Operating Systems. In addition, over six years experience teaching undergraduate music theory and analysis courses at the Ohio State University as a Teaching Assistant. Extensive academic accomplishments: Ph.D. And M.A. With Honors from the Graduate School, Ohio State University; B.A with Honors from the University of California; 60 undergraduate post-doctoral units completed in Computer Science/Information Technology courses. 12 years experience as a professional bassoonist in a variety of symphonic and chamber groups, including 4 years as a bassoonist in the 15th Air Force Band.