Jeff Cochran
Internet Information Services MVP
Published: July 24, 2002
Professional Experience
Jeff Cochran is a 15-year IT veteran with 10 years experience in Internet technologies. He set up the first ISP in southwestern Florida in 1992, using Windows NT® 3.5 as a mail and Web server with 30 dial-up lines initially, growing to over 1,000 dial-up customers and 40 Web services clients within the first two years. He works as a senior network specialist for the City of Naples, Florida since 1996, with his main areas of responsibility including Internet access and Web presence—using a combination of Windows NT– and Windows 2000–based servers and IIS 4.0 and 5.0.
Jeff's professional experience also includes a number of networking protocols, routing, DNS, WINS, DHCP switching, firewall technologies, anti-virus software, Active Server Pages, scripting in VBScript, JavaScript, and Perl. Also, he has expertise in Web design techniques and software, including FrontPage, network security, Exchange Server, SMTP, POP3 servers, IBM WebSphere, intranets, extranets, and just about anything to do with provisioning, creating, and managing a Web server.
Education and Certifications
Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science in Management 2001 and plans to finish his MBA in December 2002. He also holds multiple computer certifications from MOUS to MCP to CNE as well as A+ and a number that don't exist any more, such as ALR, AST and Leading Edge certifications.
Personal Information
Jeff's hobby use of computers dates back to mid-1970 and progresses through most personal computer technologies and operating systems. He is a long-time computer bulletin board operator, having started in the early 1980s with a single line to a Commodore 64, and his online experience dates from the early 1980s surfing the Arpanet, Dow Jones, and CompuServe with a 110-baud acoustic modem cobbled to a Bally Arcade system running Bally Basic.
Jeff’s off-time finds him battling termites in a 40-year-old house and working on various home improvement projects. He qualifies as an advanced do-it-yourselfer with a genetic anomaly of requiring immediate purchase of the latest power tools on a regular basis. If it doesn’t move, it'll likely get repaired, upgraded, altered or redecorated; and if it does move, he has an arsenal of pneumatic nailers to ensure it no longer will. He also rebuilds old pinball machines, and he has the distinction of having traded a domain name for a new-in-box Williams Medieval Madness. And no, she's not for sale.
