PALO ALTO, Calif. – Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, a Department of Defense office, announced Nov. 10 Bob Vail the director of information security at Pivotal Software Inc. was honored with an Above and Beyond Award in recognition of extraordinary support of its employees who serve in the California Guard and Reserve. Vail […]
Safe and Secure Online – A Homeschool Presentation
You’d be surprised how many people blurt out their whereabouts on Facebook. That’s what Bob Zinga, my husband, and our guest speaker at our homeschool co-op’s Web 2.0 class spoke about today during his Safe and Secure Online presentation (an ISC-Squared curriculum). Our class comprised of a small group of high schoolers- all homeschooled- and […]
Pivotal Software supervisors honored by Department of Defense with Patriotic Employer Awards
PALO ALTO, Calif. –Bob Vail, Director Information Security at Pivotal Software, was awarded the Patriotic Employer Award along with three other Patriot Award recipients including; Drew Kramer, Chris Curtis, and Ken Baylor, respectively. Pivotal Software, Inc. (Pivotal) is a software company based in San Francisco, California that provides software and services for the development […]
Naval ensign sees drug-free route to freedom, success
Navy Reserve Ensign Bob Zinga came to Alabama in 1996 after leaving his home in the Congo in Central Africa. For Zinga, whose mother brought him to the United States for college, education is everything. ‘My mom wanted me to have the best education in the world,’ he said. ‘And it was here in […]
Team brings virtualization expertise to carrier personnel
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) NetOps Support Team (NST) Fly-Away Team (FAT) Reserve component recently provided IT training support to the aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and USS John C. Stennis during a detachment to Naval Station Kitsap Bremerton. Training classes took place March 16-20.
Program helps students learn how to say “no” to drugs
Raised in the Congo, Bob Fabien Zinga came to the United States to pursue freedom and educational opportunities. After earning a degree from the University of Alabama and joining the U.S. Navy Reserve, Zinga is now using the story of his journey for freedom to teach about a different type of freedom — freedom from […]