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About Us

NetCerto was founded in October 2001 to focus on the previously unmet IT needs of small to medium sized businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area. NetCerto's growing team of consultants, system administrators, and programmers are deployed on projects based on their specific technical knowledge. By deploying the best resources for a job, we are able to complete projects for customers in shorter timeframes and more cost-effectively.

Traditionally, as companies grew and IT needs grew along with them, an ever increasing amount of internal IT resources were required to support these needs at an ever increasing cost. Now, with NetCerto's team approach to IT services, the right people with the right knowledge are assigned to an IT project as required, effectively addressing the needs of the customer while containing both costs and human resources.

With clients requiring solutions from a common set of IT services, our solutions are leveraged across our customer base, allowing technologies, knowledge, and experience to be spread among our customer base and offering each individual customer the highest level of service. NetCerto is unique in this leveraged, team-based approach to providing information technology services to small and mid-sized companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Team

NetCerto's team of experts address the specialized IT needs of small to mid-sized technology, legal, and biotech firms throughout the Bay Area. Consultants and support staff, who average 10 years of technical consulting experience, are deployed on projects based on specific technical knowledge and experience. Our project team approach ensures that clients always have the optimal resources assigned to address the specific requirements mandated by a project.

Staff Biographies

David Kovar:

Specialties:

• Established commitment to achieving successful outcomes for clients.
• Proven track record at converting vision to functioning reality.
• Strong troubleshooter, rapid problem identification, diagnosis, and resolution.
• Excellent research and implementation skills.
• Experience managing multiple high-priority tasks.
• Computer forensics, network security and investigations.
• Project management, staff, facilities, and disaster management
• Large scale systems design and management
• Internet services deployment
• Domestic and international search and rescue.

David Kovar received a BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth College in 1986 and has been actively providing software engineering and IT consulting services and management since that date. Mr. Kovar has worked for powerhouses such as Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, and Ciena Corp but his forte is in providing “soup to nuts” computing and IT management environments for small startup companies and conducting forensics investigations.

In addition to his training and experience on the IT side, Mr. Kovar has actively pursued training, experience and certification in law enforcement, computer forensics, security and disaster management. He has managed search and rescue missions on four continents, acquired PC 832 and Level 3 certification in California, holds an active California private investigator’s license, and recently passed one of the toughest IT security certifications, the CISSP. Mr. Kovar runs a successful small consulting firm providing IT and risk management services, including security consulting and intelligence analysis.

John Allred :

John Allred earned his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After MIT, he participated in a number of technical firsts – the first internal hard drive for the Macintosh, the first large scale networked simulation of military vehicles (SIMNET), and the first large scale networking engine for video games and distributed systems (RTIME, acquired by Sony as the enabler for all networked PlayStation 2 games). He has also done extensive work in layer 4-7 load balancing and SSL termination (F5 Networks); embedded applications and systems (Stratos, Apple); large scale web services, systems, and evangelism (Microsoft); and cryptography, security, hardware interfaces, and malware analysis at a startup. He has held the roles of developer, developer lead, and Chief Technology Officer.

He excels at system architecture definition, technical presentations, and closing the technical sale. He is an inventor on one issued patent and several more in work at the US patent office; holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) credential; and is a computer forensics examiner.