LAN/WAN Professional attracts new members from every industry, handling all ranges/levels of responsibilities from entry to senior level with all levels of education and work experience. No matter your background, the common link is that all approved members have an interest in helping others and are career/result-oriented professionals who are passionate about fast-tracking their "SUCCESS".

Fast Track Success (By 5 to over 15 Years) - We help our members attain success that traditionally would take 5 to 7 years in a matter of 2 to 6 months (initially). Furthermore, our long-term members attain upgraded positions within 1 year which would take AT LEAST 10 to 15 years through traditional means. A key part of attaining success is to quantify success. The following 3 factors we use to define/quantify success.

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1. High Compensation ($60,000 to $300,000+) - The initial goal is to acquire an entry/mid-level role earning $60,000 to $180,000 within 2 to 6 months and progress to a mid/lead-level role earning $100,000 to $300,000+ per year within 1 year. For top members, we help you progress to lead/senior-level roles earning $150,000 to over $300,000 per year and/or help you grow your consulting business.
2. Great Quality Of Life (Matches Your Lifestyle) - As important as compensation is, your quality of life is more important. LAN/WAN pros can work at the corporate HQ of their favorite company OR travel nationally/internationally company paid OR work remotely from anywhere. We will help you get a LAN/WAN role at the company of your dreams, with a work schedule that reinforces YOUR quality of life.
3. Fantastic Job Status (Valued/Respected By Peers) - As a LAN/WAN pro, you will be valued by your company and respected by your peers due to the mission-critical, high-impact nature of your role, and the significant financial impact you have on your company. Due to the high-level nature of your role, you will also have a significant increase in your status among your friends/family and may even impact your social life.

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Career/Results Oriented (Passionate About Success) - Take the time to review the 3 success factors above and ensure that you agree with them. In addition, ensure that you are at a place in your life where achieving career and life success can be your top priority. If the answer is yes, we are more than happy to consider you as a member. If the answer is no, we respectfully ask that you do not continue forward.

As a nationwide membership organization whose first core value is a WIN/WIN relationship, everything WE DO to succeed as an organization is tied directly to the success of our members. With this in mind, every service we offer is focused on the FULL success of our members not only at work but also in their personal life including wealth-building that helps you get to “Retirement” or at least “Working Retired”.

“Working Retired” (When Work Is Optional) - How would life be if you had the financial resources to NOT have to work for the rest of your life? When you are in this amazing life situation and still choose to work, you are “working retired”. This simply means that whatever you are doing is YOUR CHOICE and is more enjoyable and fulfilling. The 3 services listed below are optimized to help you achieve this goal within 10 years.

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1. Launch/Fast Track Your Career - The first set of services are designed to help our members attain and maintain their career success. For new members, we start with helping you get an initial LAN/WAN opportunity earning $60,000 to $120,000 per year (see Member Services site), then becoming a long-term member and fast-tracking to/maintaining opportunities earning $100,000 to $400,000+ per year.
2. Start/Develop Your Consulting - Consulting skills are required skills for all leadership roles. For this reason, developing your consulting skills is integrated into everything we do. In addition, you will start an official consulting company and we will help you develop that company to at least provide you with part-time income earning $50,000+ and potentially become a full-time business.
3. Transform Your Quality Of Life - Ultimately, everything you do is to have a fantastic personal quality of life for yourself and your “family”. With this in mind, we also offer a comprehensive set of services that are designed to help you enhance your life, including being part of a community of like-minded AND successful professionals. Remember, it is not just what you know but also who you know.

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Live Your Dream Life (While Helping Others) - Ultimately, we want to help EVERY member DEFINE their dream life and help them LIVE it and be a role model (leader) to those around them. Once you achieve this special status, we hope you have the positive moral character to then pass it on by helping others you care about to attain the same success you have achieved and be a LEADER at work, at home, and in your community.

The final core value of our organization and also our motto is “Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders Today”. With this in mind, LAN/WAN Professional offers four membership levels for attaining success and becoming a leader at work, at home, and in your community. The membership levels have been optimized to help you achieve the career success level that you desire while meeting your personal quality of life and status goals.

Launch/Master Consulting (Define Your Success) - This begins with helping you develop your consulting skills and set up a consulting company. If you already have one, we can use your current company and even help you earn at least $5,000 to over $100,000 in part-time income every year. This is in addition to a full-time LAN/WAN opportunity earning $100,000 to $180,000+ per year. Below are 4 membership levels.

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1. Associate Member (Transitional Membership) - The Associate Level Membership helps you acquire real-world LAN/WAN skills to qualify for opportunities earning $60,000 to over $120,000 per year. In addition, this membership allows YOU and LAN/WAN Pro to mutually determine if a long-term membership is right. If both parties desire to continue forward, you can continue forward to Professional Membership.
2. Professional Member ($100,000 to $180,000+) - The Professional Membership is optimized to help you get LAN/WAN opportunities earning $100,000 to $180,000+ per year. In addition, you will learn how to earn a part-time income of $5,000 to over $30,000 through your consulting company. If the professional level meets your success goal, we are happy to have you as a long-term member at this level.
3. Mentor Member ($150,000 to $300,000+) - The Mentor Level Membership helps TOP TIER members qualify for lead/senior-level LAN/WAN opportunities earning $150,000 to over $300,000 per year. This membership level is only available for true “leader” members who demonstrated their leadership skills as a professional member. This represents the top 20% of our membership.
4. Consultant Member ($210,000 to $500,000+) - Finally, a few select members who demonstrate entrepreneurial skills can qualify to become full-time Consultants earning $210,000 to over $500,000 per year. This membership level is an alternative to the mentor level. Like the Mentor requirements, you must demonstrate high-level leadership and mentoring skills as well as consulting and entrepreneurial skills.

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Become A Peer Mentor OR A True Leader - At minimum, LAN/WAN Professional is seeking quality members who at least desire to be a peer mentor (professional member) or a true leader (mentor/consultant member). For this reason, in addition to being career-oriented, our members also care about helping each other. Imagine being part of a national community of mentors/leaders who care about you.

As referenced above, EVERY part of our organization including even WHAT/HOW we provide our services and HOW we interact with our members is OPTIMIZED for qualified candidates who not only possess the 4 “Right Candidate” attributes but also SHARE our four core values. For this reason, we want to ensure that all new members share our values to have a WIN/WIN relationship (1st Core Value).

Verify Our Core Values (Matches Your Values) - Please ensure that you take the time to FULLY understand the four core values and ensure that your values match ours. If they do not, we respectfully ask that you DO NOT apply for membership. If they do, demonstrate that you share our values through your actions during the qualification process and initial membership. Below are the four core values.

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1. ALWAYS Seek "WIN/WIN" Relationship - The first and most FUNDAMENTAL core value is to only have relationships that result in a "WIN/WIN" situation. As a membership organization, this means ONLY ACCEPTING members that can benefit from our services and tying our service fees to our member's success. As a candidate, only apply if you truly possess the 4 "Right Candidate" attributes for success.
2. Think Like A Consultant (Solution/Result) - The second and MOST IMPORTANT core value is to think like a consultant which means to (1) always identify the needs of a "client", (2) create solutions/results that meet the need, and (3) focus on activities that produce the result. It is not your total knowledge but the knowledge you actually use on a job. This is how you acquire PRACTICAL skills 40+ times faster with US.
3. Pursue A Career/Your Passion (Not A Job) - The third core value is understanding the difference between (1) a JOB you do to pay "rent", (2) a CAREER you care about, and (3) a life PASSION you would do even if you were not getting paid (if you can afford to). Once you understand the difference, only pursue a CAREER (minimum) and hopefully your PASSION (Ideal). This is a requirement for being a leader (4th Core Value).
4. Find/Develop Tomorrow's Leaders Today - The fourth core value is developing leaders and we begin by looking for new members who care about helping others. The "heart" of HOW we offer our services is optimized to develop future leaders. Our services are focused on providing real-world and proven resources to our members but have YOU do the work. As a future leader, WE HELP YOU HELP YOURSELF.

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It’s Not Just What You Know But Who You Know - Every long-term member knows that other long-term members went through an extensive qualification process and also share the core values listed above. For this reason, fellow members will give you special consideration and help as if they have known you for many years. Remember, our members work in almost every major organization. How valuable is “Who You Know”?

The LAN/WAN Job category has been experiencing labor shortages starting around 10 years ago. There are three reasons for this occurrence starting with (1) the expanded definition of LAN/WAN that began over 20 years ago along with the (2) limited pool of qualified candidates due to no access to real-world LAN/WAN skills development. Finally, (3) every industry has significantly expanded its usage of LAN/WAN technology.

Significant Pay Increases & Signing Bonuses ($5,000 to $30,000+) - The significant labor shortage has increased pay for the past 10 years including a 10% increase in just the last year alone. In addition, it is now common to have signing bonuses starting at $5,000 to $30,000 for entry/mid up to $20,000 to over $100,000 for lead/senior. The following is an explanation of the 3 factors causing these shortages.

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1. Expanded Definition Of LAN/WAN - As detailed in section 2, LAN/WAN technologies not only include routing and switching but also some of the hottest technologies including security, wireless, cloud, network monitoring/management, voice, and video. In addition, LAN/WAN technologies have been expanding to data centers (load balancing, virtualization, automation), SDWAN, and even IoT devices.
2. Limited Pool Of Skilled Pros - With the ever-expanding, highly-specialized nature of LAN/WAN technologies, there are no training services available that cover all the LAN/WAN technical, professional, and consulting skill requirements. This includes traditional learning institutions and online training sites. The result is that there is a very limited pool of professionals with proper LAN/WAN skills.
3. Increase Usage In Every Industry - Finally, in today's digitally-connected age, every industry including healthcare, social media, video streaming, banking, utility, retail/restaurant, hospitality along with all levels of government/military not only rely on LAN/WAN but are also expanding their LAN/WAN usage. In other words, EVERY INDUSTRY is HIRING more LAN/WAN Professionals.

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LAN/WAN Shortage Estimate (Next 10+ Years) - The current shortage of LAN/WAN professionals is confirmed to last for at least the next 5 years and possibly for over 10 years. This is due to the increasing usage of networking and the internet both at work and at home while the pool of qualified professionals grows at a slow pace due to access to proper skills development. This is the best time to start your career in LAN/WAN.

LAN/WAN Technologies are grouped into 4 technology categories based on how common and important the technologies are to an organization. They include (1) core technologies that all companies expect a seasoned LAN/WAN professional to know, (2) specialized technologies that give you an advantage, (3) enterprise technologies that get you into $100,000+ jobs, and (4) additional technologies.

Over 10 Critical Technologies (Training Not Available In Schools) - There are actually over 10 key technologies that are mission-critical to every organization. Unfortunately, training is mainly available for just routing, switching, and some security through traditional learning institutions. Even worse, the training you get is mainly conceptual and not practical to the real world. Please review the 4 technology categories below.

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1. Core (Routing, Switching & Net Security) - LAN/WAN Core relates to technologies that you MUST UNDERSTAND as a LAN/WAN pro working in entry to low mid-level roles earning at least $60,000 up to $120,000 per year. The specific technologies labeled as Core include general WAN routing (OSFP, EIGRP), small HQ to branch layer 2/3 switching along with network security including basic firewalls and VPN.
2. Specialized (Security, Wireless, Monitor) - Specialized includes technologies that you are expected to know for jobs that begin at $80,000 to $120,000 and are in addition to the CORE technologies. These technologies include security, firewalls, all types of VPN, and various ways to authenticate. In addition, strong proficiency in wireless along with various troubleshooting and monitoring tools are typically required.
3. Enterprise (LB, Nexus, ISE, Voice, Manage) - Enterprise Technologies are required skills for LAN/WAN roles that pay over $100,000 or higher. They include Data Center technologies such as Load Balancing, Management Tools, Nexus, and enterprise routing (BGP) or highly specialized skills such as Voice, ISE that you are only expected to know if you are a senior LAN/WAN professional.
4. Additional (Automation, SDWAN, Virtual, IoT) - Additional technologies include an ever-expanding set of technologies that LAN/WAN pros are beginning to handle. The good news is that once you have mastered the CORE and Specialized technologies, you can easily pick up SDWAN and IoT devices, and our 5-part training allows you to pick up new technologies including automation & virtualization fast.

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Master CORE/Specialized Technologies - The CORE and Specialized technologies are the most critical technical skills you need to master. In addition to these, you also get general exposure to ENTERPRISE technologies and even pick up some additional technologies. LAN/WAN Associate Membership Package has been OPTIMIZED to target entry/low mid-level roles earning $60,000 to $120,000 per year.

The LAN/WAN industry not only includes (1) companies that develop LAN/WAN technologies such as Cisco Systems, Juniper, Palo Alto, etc. but also includes (2) consulting/managed service companies that support these companies and (3) the companies that USE LAN/WAN technologies. In fact, most of the jobs in LAN/WAN will come from the latter 2 categories. Based on this, you can work in EVERY INDUSTRY.

We Are Also Mission Critical To Living (We Are Everywhere) - In addition to being part of every industry, we are also a critical part of everyday living. We are not only in your home (phone, computer, TV, gaming, appliances), we are in restaurants, supermarkets, retail, hospitality, sporting events, travel, and even activities you do not think about but need such as delivery, utilities, etc. Please review the 4 “industry” groupings below.

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1. LAN/WAN Manufacturers/Developers - Companies such as Cisco Systems, Juniper, Arista, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, F5, Citrix, Aruba among others who manufacture/develop LAN/WAN technologies would officially be called the LAN/WAN industry. With that stated, as big as this industry is, the number of LAN/WAN jobs they offer is just a small percentage of the total LAN/WAN jobs.
2. Consulting/Managed Service Providers - A significant portion of LAN/WAN pros work for consulting companies and managed services providers who service companies using LAN/WAN technologies. These companies include AT&T, Microsoft (AWS), Verizon, and not-so-well-known but large international organizations such as Infosys, TCS, and HCL which service/support companies in every industry.
3. BIG 2 (HealthCare & Government/Military) - The 2 largest industries based on the gross domestic product (GDP) are Healthcare (18%) and government including local, state, federal, and military (35% to 40%). Combined, they represent over 50% of all GDP and are where the vast majority of LAN/WAN opportunities exist. Just as important, they generally pay above-market rates.
4. Every Other Industry You Can Think Of - Finally, we are part of EVERY industry you can think of from industries you may have an interest in as a hobby/leisure such as online gaming, social networking, travel, entertainment (music, TV, movies), retail, restaurants, professional sports (NBA, NFL, MLB) to more traditional such as financial services, manufacturing, utilities, and transportation.

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Work For Your "Dream" Company - As summarized above, LAN/WAN professionals can work in virtually EVERY industry possible including TV, movies, online gaming, travel, and even pro sports. For this reason, the real question is what industry do you want to work in? Imagine getting a job that not only pays great with coworkers who respect and value you but also at YOUR "dream" company. What is that worth?

As you already know, the Coronavirus has had a significant impact on our daily lives both personally and professionally. This ranges from virtually all companies along with local, state, and federal government agencies allowing their employees to work remotely from home. On a personal level, there is a continual increase in online shopping, virtual interactions, remote learning, online gaming, video streaming, etc.

Society Change Is Permanent (LAN/WAN Plays A Key Role) - The temporary changes described above along with other changes are expected to become permanent. Below is a highlight of key changes in work/life activities and new technologies that will transform how we WORK and LIVE. Just as important, the summary explains how these changes will SIGNIFICANTLY increase LAN/WAN opportunities.

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1. Increase In Working Remotely Nationwide - A nationwide survey verified that working remotely is one of the top job benefits an employee seeks. Conversely, recent studies have shown that employees are actually more productive working remotely and also lowers operational costs. For both reasons, working remotely will become more permanent. LAN/WAN is mission-critical to working remotely.
2. Remotely Managing Devices (IoT Devices) - Companies have been converting electronic devices to Internet Of Things (IoT) objects that can be monitored and managed through LAN/WAN including POS, delivery and inventory tracking, video surveillance, etc. In the home, IOT devices include TV, gaming systems, and even appliances such as your refrigerator. Every IOT device increases LAN/WAN traffic.
3. Solar /Battery & 5G Tech (Live Anywhere) - Advancements in solar/battery technology will allow people to have electricity without being connected to the electrical grid and 5G will give you wireless connectivity that is faster than current wired. This will allow employees to LIVE and WORK from anywhere. This not only increases LAN/WAN traffic but also transforms the makeup of communities.
4. Movement To Cloud (LAN/WAN is Cloud) - There will be a continual movement of technologies/applications and information located locally on your computer or local network to the “cloud”. This started over 10 years ago and continues to increase/grow every year. Remember, LAN/WAN not only connects you to the “cloud’ but is also the MISSION CRITICAL infrastructure for the “cloud”.
5. Augmented Reality (Must Have LAN/WAN) - Augmented reality simply means integrating “virtual reality” into real-life activities. For augmented reality to work, a person needs to have an IOT device (eyeglasses, etc) that interacts through LAN/WAN. In addition, the network traffic augmented reality creates is 10+ times more than a digital phone. This will SIGNIFICANTLY increase LAN/WAN traffic EVERYWHERE.

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Continual Importance of LAN/WAN (Shortage Of LAN/WAN Pros) - As summarized above, the usage of LAN/WAN technologies both at work and in our personal lives will continue to grow at a significant pace. For this reason, LAN/WAN will become even more MISSION CRITICAL to EVERY organization. The result is that the demand for LAN/WAN professionals will continue to grow. This is a great time to be a LAN/WAN Pro.

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) service operations model is the de facto IT operations standard for most government agencies and many large companies. Based on the ITIL, all job responsibilities can be organized into 3 major groups called the PBR representing (1) PLAN, (2) BUILD, and (3) RUN. For this reason, if you desire a career in IT including LAN/WAN, you should be familiar with PBR.

Three “Secrets” To High Pay ($60,000 to $400,000+ Per Year) - In addition, you should also understand the 3 reasons why LAN/WAN opportunities pay such high wages including (1) high impact, (2) mission-critical, and (3) have significant price/value ratio to any organization. The 3 “secret” factors will be further explained during the LAN/WAN Virtual Conference. The following is a bulleted summary of the PBR.

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1. PLAN - Consultants ($120,000 to $400,000+) - The PLAN team/individuals are responsible for designing solutions and the project management for implementation of those design solutions. This role has the (1) most impact, (2) mission-critical, and (3) price/value resulting in the highest compensation ranges. This is the main target role for long-term LAN/WAN members.
2. BUILD - Engineering ($90,000 to $240,000+) - The BUILD team/individuals handle engineering activities including (1) device deployments, (2) life cycle refreshes, and (3) device migrations at all levels including branch, corporate, and/or data center environments. The compensation you receive varies based on the 3 high pay factors. The initial membership is optimized for engineering roles.
3. RUN - Support/Admin ($60,000 to $180,000+) - The RUN team handles day-to-day operations with focus on (1) escalation support (tickets on issues) along with (2) change requests for live devices. The skills required are your transferable Professional/Technical (Pro/Tech) abilities. The tech skills we provide will be beyond this role. In fact, you will only use 5% to 25% of what we teach you.
4. ALL - Management ($100,000 to $500,000+) - Finally, every team listed above needs managers and directors. If you have work experience in management, you can qualify to run those teams after spending a year handling the responsibilities within the team. In other words, you can be a manager/director in LAN/WAN. Finally, due to LAN/WAN importance, the highest role in IT (CIO/CTO) is becoming a LAN/WAN role.

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Staff Size Determines Responsibilities - We determine company size by LAN/WAN staff size with 1-5 as small, 6-20 as medium, 21-200 as large, and 200+ as enterprise. For this reason, a bank with 2,000+ employees and 50 locations with a LANWAN staff of 4 is considered small. The amount of responsibilities you will handle is dependent on LAN/WAN staff size. The smaller the staff size, the more responsibilities you handle.

As important as compensation is, what is equally important is your WORK and PERSONAL quality of life. LAN/WAN opportunities are structured to potentially give you great work and personal quality of life. This not only includes the ability to work remotely with a work schedule that is more flexible to your personal life, but also good to great benefits. Read below as to HOW it is possible and what you get.

LAN/WAN Opportunities (Optimized For Remote/Flex Schedule ) - LAN/WAN technologies are located in every facility that the company has throughout the USA and the world. In addition, these technologies are optimized to be managed remotely and the work required to do these activities is scheduled. For these reasons, LAN/WAN opportunities are optimized for remote with flex schedules.

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1. Work Remote (Anywhere In US & World) - Today, most LAN/WAN roles are either (1) 100% remote and can be done from anywhere in the United States or are done (1) mostly remotely with the occasional visit to an onsite location such as a data center or corporate HQ. If you are in the latter role, you will need to work within 2 hours of the location but may only come in once a week or 2 to 3 times a month.
2. Flex Schedule (Match Your Life Style) - In addition to working remotely, you can have a more flexible work schedule in terms of WHEN you work. In fact, the higher you progress in LAN/WAN from the RUN team to the BUILD and PLAN team, the more you go from operations that have more set hours to projects that have more flexibility resulting in better matching to your personal lifestyle.
3. Visit Family/Friends (While You “Work”) - Even better, you can even visit family and friends anywhere in the United States WHILE you are working not just for weeks but months. You simply need proper internet access with a laptop and ensure that you have a place you can work without distractions. At the end of the day, what is more important than spending time with family and friends?
4. Go On “Vacation” (Permanently If You Like) - Finally, you can even go on “vacation” WITHOUT taking time off. This is especially true in project-based roles where there are weeks between projects and you only work a few hours/day at best. Imagine your favorite vacation including trips to Disney World, a night out in New York City, and watching the sunset overlooking your favorite beach while you “WORK”.

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Great Benefits (Signing/Annual Bonuses, Health, Stocks) - In addition to job/life flexibility benefits, LAN/WAN Pros typically receive relocation, signing, and annual bonuses that start at $5,000 to $30,000 for entry/mid roles and $25,000 to over $100,000 for lead/senior roles. Just as important, you will qualify for higher PTO, better health, and even stock options that are common for higher-level staff.

As you have read, the companies that LAN/WAN pros work for are typically large Fortune 500 companies, TOP nonprofits, and major government agencies. In addition, the roles you handle are high-impact and mission-critical to these organizations. The result is that you will be more respected, listened to, and recognized/valued at work. Just as important, this will also have a positive impact on even your personal life.

Work/Life Status (Heavily Impacted By The Role You Have) - Good or bad, how your coworkers AND the company you work for think of you and treat you is tied directly to the role you do. The more important the role, the more they will respect what you do, listen to your ideas, and value what you provide. What is surprising is that this also translates into your personal life situation. Read below for explanation/clarification.

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1. Respected (How You Are Treated) - The first thing you will notice working as a LAN/WAN professional is that WHAT YOU DO MATTERS to the company you work for. For this reason, you will receive a higher level of respect and courtesy that is more associated with directors and higher-level staff. This includes attending meetings with key decision-makers and stakeholders in the company.
2. Listened To (Your Ideas Matter) - In addition, you will be looked upon as a subject matter expert (SME) on technologies that are mission-critical to the success of the company. For this reason, your ideas will be listened to AND IMPLEMENTED. How would it feel to have your idea implemented company-wide that impacts not only thousands of staff but potentially millions of clients?
3. Recognized (Valued/Appreciated) - The work you do can potentially increase company revenues or significantly decrease operational costs due to automation. For these reasons, you will be more valued AND appreciated by your company. This appreciation will begin with higher recognition followed by bonuses and other awards including more quality of life benefits as mentioned in part 2.
4. You Are Treated Different At Home - Finally, you will notice a positive change in your status at home with your family, friends, and even in your community. This begins once they hear that you are working for a nationally recognized company in an IMPORTANT role. If you are already respected, listened to & appreciated, this will further expand that. If you are not, there will be a LIFE TRANSFORMATION.

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Work/Life Status (Most Important In Life) - Once you receive high compensation and have a great quality of life, you will realize that work/life status is more important than anything else. Remember, STATUS is about being treated with (1) RESPECT, where your (2) OPINIONS MATTER, and you are (3) VALUED/APPRECIATED by people you care about. This includes your family and friends. What is that worth?

A typical LAN/WAN role described in the above sections requires a minimum of 5 to 10+ years of proven work experience. Unfortunately, the average new member has very limited to NO previous LAN/WAN work experience. So how do we have a success rate of over 90% helping new members with no previous LAN/WAN experience not only get but successfully handle opportunities earning $60,000 to $120,000 per year?

Experience In Responsibilities (Proficiency In Technologies) - The answer is companies only care about your PROFICIENCY in the technology BUT want “EXPERIENCE” in handling the responsibilities relating to the (1) PLAN and/or (2) BUILD and/or (3) RUN teams in previous companies along with having transferable Pro/Tech abilities. The following is a bulleted summary of how this is possible.

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1. Constant Tech Change (3 to 5 Years) - Large organizations do a “life cycle refresh” on over 20 LAN/WAN technologies every 3 to 5 years due to the mission-critical nature of these technologies. For this reason, it is unrealistic to have over 5 years of experience in a specific technology. Especially if you are part of the team replacing old technology with the NEW TECHNOLOGY you were just exposed to?
2. Proficiency In Specific Technology - Based on the reality stated above, what is most important is your real-world HANDS-ON PROFICIENCY on the common activities associated with that technology. There are over 20 LAN/WAN technologies grouped into 4 major categories that you need to be proficient in. LAN/WAN Pro will get you proficient in LAN/WAN technologies in 2 to 6 months.
3. Transferable “Pro/Tech” Abilities - You must also possess general PRO/TECH abilities. PRO abilities include but are not limited to (1) verbal communication and written communication skills, (2) multitasking skills, (3) analytical/validation skills. TECH abilities include good (1) troubleshooting skills, (2) analysis/validation skills, and/or (3) design and project management skills to be successful in LAN/WAN.
4. “Experience” In Responsibilities - Finally, you need to have transferable experience working in at least 1 of 3 key areas of company operations from (1 – PLAN) including design, project management, or general management, (2 – BUILD) including installation, configuration, deployment, life cycle refresh, migration and/or (3 – RUN) including escalation support (help desk) and administration.

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Must Have Transferable Tech/Pro & “Experience” - We can help you get LAN/WAN opportunities requiring 5 to 7 years of experience as long as you possess transferable Pro/Tech abilities (Attribute 1 & 2). In addition, you must have work experience or equivalent knowledge in at least 1 of the 3 PBR areas of operations, even if your experience was just professional and not technical. Please ensure that you possess them.

The company founder, Eric Choi, left college early to serve his country as a US Marine in 1988. After serving his country, he embarked on a career that included multiple business ventures and a successful career in IT including working/consulting for various Government and Fortune 500 to 1,000 corporations and personally experiencing the life transformation that LAN/WAN Pro provides to its members.

Origin Of LAN/WAN Pro (Founder’s Personal Journey) - As referenced above, the 3 services offered by LAN/WAN Professional originated from our founder’s personal journey to (1) fast-track his career. (2) develop/launch his consulting business and other business ventures and (3) transform his personal quality of life by his mid 20’s. Please read below on how our founder’s success became the foundation for LAN/WAN Pro.

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1. US Marine Corps (Real World Training) - Like all marines, Eric completed basic/MOS training including graduating at the top of his class. During this period, Eric learned the real-world training methodology that became the core part of our 5-part training structure for acquiring skills 40+ times faster. Unlike most marines, he bought his first home when only 18 years old and started his wealth building.
2. Business Failure (Jump Started IT Career) - Upon honorable discharge, Eric sold his house and took his savings/investments to launch his first major business venture. As president, he grew this organization to over 50 employees within 1 year including being on the cover of a major newspaper in May 1993. Unfortunately, the business closed 2 months later due to inadequate funding.
3. Bypass Entry IT (Fast Track To Consulting) - The experience Eric acquired from “failing” his first business gave him the ability to fast track to a high-level role as an IT consultant handling major corporate, government, and military clients. He also handled management roles for Autobytel (hot internet IPO) and AXA group (world’s largest insurance company) all by the time he was only 27 years old.
4. Eric’s Brother Ray (First Client & Partner) - As Eric progressed, he also helped his brother Ray jumpstart his IT career starting as a network engineer for a regional consulting company with high profile clients including Warner Bros, Disney, Bank of America, etc that transitioned into a senior engineer role for Activision (Blizzard) leading a team of IT professionals by the time he was only 23 years old.
5. Business Ventures (Prep For LAN/WAN) - Throughout this period, Eric and Ray never gave up on their entrepreneurial spirit despite false starts including launching Cyber Guild (1st network gaming center in the world) 3 years too early, Global Village (Internet Night Club), and a successful IT consulting company. These experiences became the foundation for the companies that became LAN/WAN Pro.
6. Going From Rags To Riches (Life Transformation) - On a personal level, Eric grew up in one of the poorest areas of Los Angeles but worked hard throughout his young life to TRANSFORM his life including living in one of the wealthiest communities in America (Newport Beach, CA) by his mid 20’s and getting engaged to his best friend, Melanie and enjoying an amazing lifestyle including vacations in Europe.

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Helping Others & Writing An IT Success Book - Eric has always enjoyed helping others and shared his success “secrets” with friends, family, and coworkers who also progressed in their careers. He turned that advice into a how-to manual on how to be successful in IT in 1997. The how-to manual became the foundation for two companies that were the precursor to LAN/WAN Professional.

Eric Choi took his book on how to be successful in IT and decided to “test out” his ideas to ensure that what he wrote worked. In 1998, he created a series of workshops and partnered with a regional IT training organization to offer the workshops to portions of their graduating class. The result was extraordinary. Students who attended his workshop attained significantly higher success than students who did not.

Painful Lessons (To Build A Great, Caring Organization) - Eric launched two very successful businesses that helped thousands of clients attain career success and transform their life. The business success AND loss also coincided with Eric Choi’s personal happiness and extremely painful losses over a period of 12 years. Please review how the experiences from this period became the foundation for LAN/WAN Professional.

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1. Great Business Success (Personal Happiness) - Eric and his brother Ray who was working at Cisco Systems, launched ICTP, a grad-level tech school that helped its students acquire real-world IT skills 8 times faster in 1998. This business grew to over 100 employees in just 3 years and was valued at over $40 million. Eric also married his best friend, Melanie, and became a father to a beautiful son, Adam.
2. Closing A Great School (Losing Everything) - The IT industry went into the worst recession ever in 2001 that caused thousands of tech companies to close. ICTP needed to downsize quickly to survive but Eric could not let go of any of its staff as he considered them family. This “bad business decision” caused the closure of ICTP in 2003 and the loss of Eric’s marriage and separation from his son, Adam.
3. “Get Busy Living OR Dying” (Eric Chose To LIVE) - Throughout his life, Eric never gave up no matter how difficult life was. Unfortunately, by the summer of 2004, the loss was so great that Eric contemplated suicide. Fortunately, he remembered his son Adam, his parents, and his brother’s family. His responsibility and love for them gave him the strength to “Get Busy Living”, a phrase from The Shawshank Redemption.
4. New Start (Both In Business And In Life) - By 2005, Eric launched Tech Pros Group (TPG), a professional organization focused on helping its clients succeed and benefiting from their success. Around this time, he also found a kindred spirit in TuVan, who was equally passionate about her success and life. Tech Pros Group grew quickly to over 30 staff members and helped thousands of clients.
5. Cancer (Choosing Personal Over Business) - By 2006, TuVan was informed that she had terminal cancer. Based on hearing this, Eric focused on helping TuVan LIVE LIFE to its fullest in between 3 chemotherapy sessions and 10+ surgeries over 4 years. Her final wish before she passed was a wedding. Eric and Tuvan had a special wedding in August 2009. Tuvan passed exactly 1 month later in bed as Eric lay beside her.
6. Starting LAN/WAN Pro And Health Issues - By the fall of 2008, Eric closed down TPG and kept a small dedicated team of less than 10 to launch LAN/WAN Professional to take care of a small list of clients while he focused on taking care of TuVan in her final year of life. During this time, Eric was also informed that he had type 2 diabetes due to his extreme lifestyle including high stress and poor eating.

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Life Journey/Lessons (Foundation For LAN/WAN Pro) - Eric Choi experienced more in 20 years (sections 1 & 2) than most have in 3 lifetimes while helping thousands of clients. This includes how career and life success/loss are so intertwined and the importance of a person’s CORE VALUES in the face of adversity. These experiences created the foundation for LAN/WAN Pro, a nationwide membership organization.

LAN/WAN Professional, a nationwide membership organization, officially started in the fall of 2008. With that stated, the actual transformation of the organization including implementing the comprehensive improvement began in 2011. This is due to the fact that our founder, Eric Choi, was mentally and emotionally exhausted with health issues (read section 2) and needed 2010 to recuperate, reflect and plan.

Building LAN/WAN Professional (Starting A New Life) - Beginning in 2011, Eric Choi took the lessons from the previous 20 years to develop a set of services that initially focused on helping members fast track their careers and also transform their personal quality of life. Eric decided to limit the number of new members until the services were solidified and dedicated the next 10 years to solidifying those services.

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1. Finding A Partner In Life (Akemi) - Eric knew he needed to be financially frugal and work-focused while he dedicated to developing/refining the life-changing services and needed a partner in life to help with this. Eric was fortunate enough to find a special person in Akemi who helped Eric simplify his personal life so Eric can focus on putting his energy/focus into building a great nationwide organization.
2. Five-Part Training (40+ Times Faster) - Since 2010, LAN/WAN Pro worked closely with its working members to create a comprehensive 5 part system that helps them acquire real-world skills 40+ times fasters by 2019. The result is they acquire real-world LAN/WAN skills that would normally take 4 years of full-time grad school plus 5 years of experience in just 1 to 2 months full-time up to 3 to 4 months part-time.
3. Comprehensive Placement (Get Job) - As effective as their training was, LAN/WAN Pro still had a success rate that was below 60% by 2014. This rate would be considered stellar for schools but not for them. They realized that the skills required for getting the job are different than the skills for doing the job. Starting in 2014, a comprehensive placement system was created that improved the success to over 80% by 2016.
4. Right Candidate (Most Critical Factor) - By 2016, Eric realized that no matter how good our service is, approving the RIGHT member is the most CRITICAL factor for mutual success. Based on this, Eric and his team created a comprehensive 2 qualification process that resulted in a stellar success rate exceeding 90% by 2018. In fact, since 2020. EVERY new member who followed our process attained success.
5. Quality Of Life Benefits (At Work & Home) - From the beginning, Eric knew that transforming the personal quality of life is as important as career advancement. For this reason, LAN/WAN Professional started informally offering quality of life services beginning with helping negotiate better workdays/schedules, improving member’s credit, relocation, and even helping to buy a house, handling investments, etc.
6. Staying Connected To Son (Starting A Family) - Throughout this period, Eric made sure to see his son, Adam, who lives in Europe at least once a year, and stay connected. In addition, Eric and Akemi decided to have a family. Unfortunately, this is not easy when you are over 40. After many years including the painful loss of their first daughter Emma at birth, they had their beautiful baby girl Anna in 2019.

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Fully Refined Career Service (90+ Success Rate) - By 2019, LAN/WAN Professional had a comprehensive set of career advancement services that fast track’s newly approved members to LAN/WAN opportunities earning $60,000 to over $120,000 initially and $100,000 to $180,000 within 12 months with a stellar success rate that exceeds 90%. In addition, LAN/WAN Professional has key members working in every major industry.

Prior to 2020, LAN/WAN Professional was a small nationwide membership organization focused on helping a small group of new members attain success and stay successful while we refined/solidified our primary service of fast-tracking our member’s careers. Going into 2020, Eric Choi was ready to finally expand LAN/WAN Professional to be a global company with a comprehensive 10-year action.

Losing Mother (Inspiration For LAN/WAN Professional) - The inspiration for LAN/WAN Pro including our core values stems from the extremely close relationship between Eric and his mother and the values she instilled in him. Eric’s mom was told she had terminal cancer in the winter of 2019 and passed away in the summer of 2020. Her memory continues to inspire Eric to make LAN/WAN Pro, a global organization of “leaders”.

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1. Consulting Skills (Critical Higher Roles) - Throughout 2010 to 2019, we provided consulting-focused services to members desiring higher-level roles earning over $120,000 per year. Since our motto is “Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders Today”, we decided in 2020 to integrate consulting into every aspect of our service and adjusted our membership requirements starting in 2022 to only have HIGHER level members.
2. Launch Consulting (Key Transformation) - In addition, we also realized that our most successful members had a consulting business that provide significant tax/business benefits and part-time income. For this reason, starting in 2020, we officially converted to a business consulting membership. This resulted in a SIGNIFICANT benefit to our members that enhanced their wealth building.
3. Coronavirus (100% Virtualized Services) - Prior to 2019, even though over 80% of our services were remote, members still needed to fly to California for a series of intensive onsite boot camps that required travel costs and time away from work. In response to the coronavirus, we were able to fully virtualize our service. Even better, the virtual services have no hard costs and have been optimized to be better.
4. Expanding Career Services ($400,000+) - Since 2010, LAN/WAN Pro offered services to help members fast track to up to $180,000 per year (associate/pro) and also offered custom services for higher-level roles up to $400,000+. Starting in 2022, we are turning the custom services into official services earning $150,000 to $300,000 (mentor) and $210,000 to $400,000+ per year (consultant).
5. Quality Of Life Services (At Work & Home) - Starting in 2023, we will be transforming our informal quality of life services into formal services designed to help our members transform their personal quality of life including wealth building. In addition, we will be offering a proprietary members-only social media platform that will connect our members to each other in every company/industry.
6. Local Virtual Chapters (Offering Ownership) - Starting in 2024, we will be launching our “local” virtual chapters that will be individually owned by a successful member. These chapters will allow our TOP members to earn over $500,000 per year helping other members. In addition, all long-term members will have the opportunity to have ownership in the organization so that we all benefit together.

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Who You Know (Access To Top Members Everything) - Remember the saying “it is not just what you know but also who you know”? As of 2022, we have a nationwide community of members successfully working in every major organization who shares our core values and with whom you can connect both professionally and personally for the rest of your life. What is the value of this WHO YOU KNOW?!?