Biographies:

Jim Conley earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Northern Illinois University and his Masters Degree in Management Information Systems from Northern Illinois University. Jim has been teaching at Rock Valley College for the past 14 years in the Business and Computer Information Systems Division. He helped start the Cisco Networking Academy program at Rock Valley College. Jim has A+ certification as well as his CCNA, CCNP and CCAI certifications from Cisco.

Lyle Frantz earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois, Champaign in Education and a Masters Degree in Instructional Technology from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. In addition to post graduate work at Northern Illinois University and University of Illinois at Springfield, Lyle has earned CCNA, CCNP and CCAI certifications from Cisco. He started a high school Cisco Academy Program in 2000 in Rockford, Illinois and has since become a Professor in the CIS department at Rock Valley College. While at Rock Valley College, Lyle has taken extensive training as a CSSIA partner in Information Assurance, Network Security and Computer Forensics as well as training in Wireless Networking, Data Cabling. He has conducted training for teachers as a part of the CSSIA program during 2005,2006 and has been teaching in the technology and mathematics fields for 32 years.

Contact: JimC@ednet.rvc.cc.il.us or LFrantz@ednet.rvc.cc.il.us