The Pioneer Lecture Series: Network Performance Management is coming to Portland on Wednesday, March 9th. Gain insight from the creators of TCPDUMP, WinPCap and Wireshark. You'll find out how Dr. Steve McCanne, Loris Degioanni and Gerald Combs came together as the pioneers of packet capture and analysis. You'll also find out what they see as the next generation of application aware network performance management and what it means for you.

Sponsored by Riverbed Technology

The Oregon Computer Consultants Association presents Advanced topics in Network Troubleshooting

-Overview of switches/networking devices that offer tcpdump/pcap.
-How a span port works
-Viewing and troubleshooting via Wireshark.
-If time allows, advanced topics such as how to view SSL payloads in Wireshark.

Bio: Eric Hardin has been in IT for over 14 years and has held positions from help desk to Sr. Manager. He has worked for a few large companies in the Portland area and spent two years as a consultant. Currently Eric is a Sr. Manager, Cyber Defense Center at Nike.

Eric enjoys spending time with his family along with coin collecting and woodworking. Eric and his wife Angela have been married for ten years and they have two boys Wesley and Everett.