Eric F Crist hails from Cottage Grove, Minnesota, and he works as a product and systems engineer for Abbott. He has a relatively wide range of professional and life experience starting from physical security and access control as a low-voltage technician into software development, system administration, and software development.
Eric has been a core member of the OpenVPN community since 2008 and helps manage the open source online resources. He also wrote ssl-admin, and he is a lead for Easy-RSA, both of which help manage Certificate Authorities and chains.
Eric collaborated with Jan Just Keisjer for the book, Mastering OpenVPN, in 2015, also for Packt.
I would like to sincerely thank my wife, DeeDee, for encouraging me to write this book. Without your prompting, encouragement, and motivation, I would have had a tremendous amount of additional free time and sanity.