Ronald P. Reck is the owner and founder of RRecktek LLC, a provider of IT solutions and consulting services. RRecktek, LLC was established over twenty years ago and is located outside of the Washington DC metropolitan area. Mr. Reck was awarded and successfully completed over one hundred fifty contracts ranging from the data warehousing of state, local, and federal law enforcement incident reports outside of submarine bases for The Navy Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) to vocabulary projects for the management and dissemination of controlled vocabularies for The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), as a member of the Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group staff. Author / co-author of two dozen publications including Hardening Linux ISBN-13: 978-0072254976. Representative clients include Nextel, Winstar, ANS +COre, AOL, Standard & Poors, The Federal Communications Commission, Kiplingers Newletter, The United States Information Agency, The Council of Better Business Bureaus, and Department of Defense Health Affairs.