Patrick H. Piper - President/Owner and Principal Consultant  Linkedin

Patrick has over 18 years of experience in IT networking, with an emphasis on IPAM, DNS, and DHCP technologies.  He graduated from N.C. State University with a BA in Business Management and was an All-American in Cross Country and Track.  During his early work years following graduation, he took his running to the National level at the Marathon distance, by qualifying for the 1994 Olympic Trials in just his first Marathon.  Today, he applies the same hard work ethic and dedication that helped him be successful as an athlete to his IT consultancy.  Patrick followed a well-planned job progression, starting as a systems engineer working in network operating systems and routing technologies.  He advanced into consulting, where he learned how to effectively communicate and interface with technical and non-technical personnel on various large-scale IP services projects.  In 1995, he founded Netlinx, Inc. originally as a systems integration firm focused on small business networking.  Over the last 15 years his focus and emphasis has been on providing professional consulting and development services in the IPAM industry to large Enterprise firms.