Eric Williams:
CLASS OF 1983
Bowie High SchoolClass of 1983
Bowie, MD
University of Maryland Class of 1987
Baltimore, MD
Thomas Johnson Middle SchoolClass of 1980
Lanham seabrook, MD
LaSalle Elementary SchoolClass of 1977
Washington, DC
Eric's Story
Life
'83-'87 - Univ. MD, Baltimore County - Biology/Music (of all things). Dad died in '83 just before graduation. Join Lambda Chi Alpha (Fraternity) 4.0 in Bio, and acceptance to Med school. I take a break so...
'87-'89 - Worked at a Computer and Software store in College Park, and never went back to school (Post Grad)
'90-'92 - Got really sick and decided the best thing was to start my own busines (Response Consulting - a computer consultancy).
'92 - Got married (Wanda) step-son (Richard), I got married at Mom's house.
'93 - Had a baby girl (Diamond) and bought a house in DC, beyond that - started several other computer businesses with a partner.
'94 - Sister died of complications from Sickle cell anemia
'96 - Mom dies, decided to start on my present .com InfoBro - a computer and internetwork security company.
'97 - Business really got hot. Design, configure, evaluate and install the first Census Bureau Network Firewall;
'98 - Design the Natl. Weather Service computer network security architecture, draft the Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Policy for NOAA, Invited to speak in numerous venues;
'99 - Invited to The White House to particpate in eBusiness talks
'00 - Speaker at the Rainbow/PUSH Wall Street Project Conference ('00)
Hey, Bulldogs let's get together!!!! Ok so some did but I did not show :-( let's try again...Back and forth to Uganda (twice) to teach and speak (at Makerere University and to the Ugandan internet excange consortium)
2001 - Lesotho (once) (South Africa) to teach and speak (to the Lesotho Nat'l Telecomm Service), expanded business and now I am doing Policy and IT security risk assessments, compliance reviews and other things for the entire Department of Commerce and Computer Security Policy and Analysis for OSHA! Still having fun!
2002 - More work, more work. Really laid back and got down to brass tacks. Finished development of the security architecture of the Dept. of Commerce's GigaBit backbone network at DOC ...Expand for more
HQ in Washington DC. Designated to re-write the DOC IT Security Porgram Policy and complete compliance reviews for IT security on DOC operating units. What a year!
2003 - WTF! All the contracting work disapeared. Poof, gone. Well, the major mishap was the budgeting by the Fed's in the year after 9/11/01. The biggest contracts came right on the heels of that tragic event, in an effort to shore up security. Money was front loaded too, so they ran out near the beginning of FY 03. I had to regroup. Decided to subcontract with a long standing partner company, Reston Consulting Group. One of the DOC operating units (NOAA) was looking to replace talent that left the NOAA Computer Incident Response Team (N-CIRT) there. I wrote the policies that established the N-CIRT. Weird how things work out. It's a stellar gig. Huge cut in salary, it's worth it. The people are the best in NOAA, and great to work with. Later in the year tragedy strikes my family. It's a dark time. My wife is diagnosed with stage IV stomach cancer, she has to have a total gastrectomy. 145 lbs to 90 in less than a month. She retires. Rough times lay ahead, but our love is stronger than any illness. Just prior, my brother almost dies of complications from sickle cell anemia. He's one strong cat. It runs in the family. :-)
2004 - Most of the year is spent nursing my wife to better health and adjusting to a new lifestyle. My wife is the strongest person I've ever known. It turns out ok, she starts to gain a little weight up to 100 lbs.
2005 - Things are back on track, so to speak. Business is ok. The NOAA gig is settling in. I take my boo to St. Maarten (2nd time) just the two of us. In December they confirm a mass in my wife's abdomen. We can survive.
2006 - Since January I have been dealing with another *big* change in schedule. Chemo started again. Graduated my (step)son. What a blessing, he's doing well! Oct 11, 2006, my brother and best friend Frank III died. I was with him. :-(((
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