James Stanger is an accomplished Web technologist, educator, writer,
open source advocate, and security consultant. Active in the IT
certification community for nearly twenty years, he is currently
President and Chief Certification Architect for Certification Partners
LLC, owners of the CIW (Certified Web Professional) and CTP
(Convergence Technologies Professional) certifications.

James currently serves as Chair of the Linux Professional Institute
(LPI) Advisory Council, and also works on the CompTIA Network+ and
Server+ advisory committees. He also serves on advisory councils for
Kaplan University, American Public University System (APUS), MidSouth
Community College, Snow College, and others. Over the years, he has
helped design certifications and curriculum for IBM, Symantec,
CompTIA, and the Telephony Industry Association (TIA).

An award-winning author and blogger, Dr. Stanger has written titles
for O’Reilly, McGraw-Hill, Wiley, and Elsevier Press. His writings
have been translated into over a dozen languages. As of April 2010,
Linux Pro Magazine, the premier resource for Linux administrators in
the world, has asked Dr. Stanger to be a regular columnist. He has
also spent the last two decades writing, lecturing and consulting
worldwide about Web design, e-commerce, network security,
convergence/VoIP, open source, and Linux system administration.

An in-demand speaker and consultant, Dr. Stanger has presented in
venues across the world, from San Francisco to Edinburgh, Tokyo and
Beijing. He received his PhD in English from the University of
California at Riverside in 1997. He lives and plays near the Puget
Sound in Washington State. For more information about Dr. Stanger, go
to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_​Stanger.

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