User:Rmpneteng

Rmpneteng is the pseudonym of one Richard Phillips, a network engineer, formerly employed by CICNet, QualNet,Verio/NTT America and his own consulting company RedPoint Consulting. His company was initiated in the year 2000 in Cleveland, Ohio. Mostly recently he participated in upgrading a Merill Lynch facility to the IT standards of its purchasing company Bank of America.

RedPoint Consulting is named after the rock climbing practice of "redpointing". The Wiki definition is, To complete a lead climb without falling or resting on the rope (hangdogging)." The motto of the company is, "Facta non verba", a Latin phrase meaning "deeds, not words."

Phillips has climbed fairly extensively from Alaska, with two failed attempts on Denali, and into South America. His favorite climb has been and will always be Mt. Ranier outside Seattle.

With widely (wildly?)varied interests Phillips has been a private pilot, paralegal, private investigator, teacher of physics, martial arts, guitar, poetry, American Indian beadwork and other American Indian arts and crafts, Advertising Director, manufacturers representative, CEO of an international corporation, sales engineer and internet engineer. Phillips, of Eastern Band Tsalagi (Cherokee) descent, found a voice as an advocate for a true American Indian presence in the early days of the World Wide Web, and was a founding member of the Native American Communications Council (NACC). NACC's mission was to assure that individuals representing Native Americans on the web were doing so honestly, correctly and with the blessings of whatever Tribal affiliation they claimed. This lead to him being asked to participate in a grant proposal to the National Science Foundation to fund a project that produced the Great Lakes Regional American Indian Network (GLRAIN). With the funding approved, GLRAIN was run by Mike Dashner and Karen Deleary both Anishinabe Tribal Members. Eventually Phillips became a member of the Native American Journalists Association, NAJA, and later went to school to study Cisco Router configuration, then was employed as a network engineer for CICNet.

CICNet's motto was: "Connectivity is more than a connection." It was an NSFNET regional provider for the Great Lakes, operator of netIllinois, the Rural Datafication Project, the Great Lakes Information Network, the Electronic Journals Collection, the Great Lakes Regional American Indian Network (GLRAIN) and other sometimes irrelevant projects and services which I cannot recall.

QualNet, another internet service provider, hired Phillips to work in its Network Operation Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Later, when QualNet was purchased by Verio, Phillips was employed as a network engineer and project manager, eventually working on a project that consolidated various collocation facilities east of the Mississippi River. This explains the connection to Verio/NTT America. Along with most of his Cleveland, Ohio office Phillips was laid off during the dot com debacle.

In the summer of 2010 Phillips taught Robotics for the Virginia Space Flight Academy. He lives on a farm on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with his fiancee, Lori, daughter, Cat, six horses, a cat and dog. He is currently a Freelance Journalist/Writer.

'''A writer from a young age and contributor to various newspapers and magazines he is currently at work on his second novel, tentatively titled "Living in the Fishbowl". His first novel was written as a romp through the 1980's featuring two protagonist's demanding lives burgeoning with experiences and futile attempts to amass more stories to tell their grandchildren than their own grandparents. Nearly published but not quite; the story was read to many friends with resounding reviews. The same reviews came from the near publisher but terms could not accommodate an agreement.

'''"Living in the Fishbowl" deals with the two times in his life that he was homeless and the adventures, sadness and eventual triumph of the human spirit and most of all love. He is also working on freelance articles with a bent toward publications such as: Indian Country Media Network, Men's Journal, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, etc.

'''Phillips is enjoying the time he can spend with his grand daughter, Brianna, the crisp, clear mornings of "the shore" and the nights he snuggles with his true love beneath a buffalo hide.

'''Not one to remain idle he is also preparing to become a facilitator in the process of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy through The Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association, EAGALA. An M.F.A. in Writing is in his future as well as a possible attempt at the Bar Examination in Virginia and one last climb on Rainier before hanging up his ice ax and crampons for good.

'''" I try to be a good person, represent my culture(s) well, and hope that my days help others make their way through life a bit better, more hopeful and kinder."

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