Rick spent 12 years with the Columbus (OH) Division of Police, gradually working his way up from patrolman to detective and then to network administrator. In that capacity, he was responsible for the design, implementation and support of the Division’s Metropolitan Area network. He supervised the entire Y2K IT initiative.

He became senior network engineer for Intellinetics, Inc. and was responsible for all network administration, network security and telecommunications. As president of NMP Consulting for the past 15 years, Rick provides complete Information technology services to numerous clients across the U.S. and Canada. He’s focused on data recovery, network architecture, and security.

Rick has undergone specialized training from Cisco and Microsoft as well as a computer hacker techniques course.