Rob Shimonski (www.shimonski.com) is a best-selling author and editor with more than 20 years of experience developing, producing, and distributing print media in the form of books, magazines, and periodicals, and more than 25 years working in the Information Technology field. To date, Rob has successfully helped create, as both an author and an editor, more than 100 books that are currently in circulation. Rob has an extremely diverse background in the print media industry, filling roles such as author, co-author, technical editor, copy editor, and developmental editor. Rob has worked for countless companies, including CompTIA, Cisco, Microsoft, Wiley, McGraw Hill Education, Pearson, the National Security Agency, and the US military.

As a Wireshark guru, Rob's experience goes back to the beginning of the application's existence. Having worked with Ethereal and various other packet capturing tools, Rob has been at the forefront of watching Wireshark evolve into the outstanding tool it is today. Rob has also captured this evolution in various written works, including Sniffer Pro: Network Optimization and Troubleshooting Handbook (Syngress, 2002) and The Wireshark Field Guide: Analyzing and Troubleshooting Network Traffic (Syngress, 2013). Rob has also worked with INE.com to create a practitioner and advanced practitioner video series detailing the usage and how to work with Wireshark in 2015. In 2016, Rob focused his energies on helping other authors develop their works to ensure technical accuracy in advanced topics within the Wireshark toolset. Rob is also certified as both a Wireshark Certified Network Analyst (WCNA) and a Sniffer Pro SCP.