David Strom is one of the leading experts on network and Internet technologies and has written and spoken extensively on topics such as IT security, VOIP, convergence, email, cloud computing, network management, Internet applications, wireless and Web services for more than 35 years.
A resume can be found here. Clips and links to his various publications can be found here.
He has created numerous print and web publications, built several hands-on IT test labs that mimic actual enterprise situations, curated various email newsletters, blogged extensively about a wide variety of IT business topics, spoken at numerous IT business conferences, written thousands of magazine articles and published two books on computer networking. He is also the creator of an innovative series of video screencast product reviews of enterprise IT products that can be found on Webinformant.tv and syndicated to various other Web sites.
He has held several
editorial management positions for both print and online properties in the
enthusiast, gaming, IT, network, channel, and electronics industries, including
the editor-in-chief of Network Computing print, Digital Landing.com, and
Tom's Hardware.com. He currently writes for SiliconANGLE.com.
Over the course of
his editorial career, he has helped launch dozens of Web sites, including the
DesignLine series (such as automotivedesignline.com for CMP's Electronics
Group). As the founding editor-in-chief for Network Computing magazine,
he hired a staff of 20, established the magazine's six networked laboratories,
designed a network-based publishing and production system and wrote many articles
on networking topics. From 2016-2019, he created and curated the
content of the Inside Security newsletter. His articles cover a
wide variety of opinion columns, reviews, feature stories and analyses for
dozens of publications and web sites, including ITworld.com, TechTarget.com,
Internet.com, Network World, Infoworld, Computerworld, Small Business
Computing, c|net and news.com, eWeek, Baseline Magazine, PC World, and PC
Magazine. �For many years, he wrote weekly opinion columns on eCommerce for
IDGWorld's email subscription service, and networking columns in Infoworld
and PC Week. In addition to his
editorial work, Strom is also a frequent speaker, panel moderator and
instructor at various industry events and trade shows around the world,
speaking on a wide range of networking and communications topics. He is
represented by the speaker's agency Convention
Connection. You can see samples of his presentations and
links to previous and current engagements here. He also has taught
computer networking classes at the high school level and a graduate business
class in management information systems theory. He has also appeared on the Fox
TV News Network, NPR's Science Friday radio program, ABC-TV's World News
Tonight and CBS-TV's Up to the Minute news broadcasts. Since September 1995,
he has self-published a weekly series of essays called Web Informant,
sent via email to several thousand subscribers. He is the author of two books: Internet
Messaging (Prentice Hall, 1998) which he co-authored with Marshall T. Rose
and Home Networking Survival Guide (McGrawHill/Osborne, 2001). He began his career
working in varying roles in end-user computing in the IT industry. He
has a Masters of Science, Operations Research degree from Stanford
University, and a BS from Union College. He was a trustee of the
Port Washington public school board from 2003-2005. He is married and lives in
St. Louis. David Strom+ 1 314-277-7832