About Me

CorbinLinks.com publishes practical real world and usable information on a variety of business and IT topics, including:

The site started back in 2007 as a basic digital calling card. In late 2011 it is “reborn” and transformed into a full content hub. As you read this “About” page, the author is feverishly at work creating new (and with hope) interesting and useful content.

Who is This Corbin Links Person?

Corbin Links - Gravatar PhotoFirst-time visitors often visit this page seeking my “professional” bio, so here goes (keep on reading for the “personal” bio that follows):

Professional Summary

Corbin Links is known in professional circles as “The IT Consultant’s Consultant” and the “Go to” Identity Management Guy”, because of his extensive background with large-scale Enterprise IT and Identity Access Management Projects. He has authored three books in the field of Identity Access Management (IAM / IdM); “IAM Success Tips: Volume I,” “IAM Success Tips: Volume II,” and “IAM Success Tips: Volume III”, and is currently working on his fourth.

In business for over 29 years with 23 years in IT, Identity Access Management (IAM / IdM), Program/Project Management and Consulting, Corbin Links has the rare combination of “been there and done that” expertise and highly developed strategic insights that have delivered big results to his clients. His past and current clientele are among Fortune 400 companies, many of whom continue to seek out his post-project advice. Throughout Corbin’s ongoing and ever-expanding career, he has engaged in hundreds of enterprise business projects (including systems integration), software development, systems automation, network engineering, data center consolidation, Identity and Access Management, data security implementation, project management, consultant training and development, business expansion, and of course “other duties as required.”

Prior to working as a Strategic Business and IT Consultant, Corbin Links was the Senior Manager for a contract security company (physical security: cameras, patrols and such) and continued to serve in management roles across several industries including retail and records management.

Today, Corbin Links devotes much of his time to sharing his Identity Access Management, Strategic IT Consulting expertise and business knowledge with consultants and business owners alike through his books, lectures, speaking engagements and personal training sessions as well as managing select consulting projects. His blogs can be found at CorbinLinks.com and IAMSuccessTips.com. Corbin’s background, experience, and refreshing candor continue to generate proven results to the many who seek him out.

Corbin can also be found on Twitter at @corbinlinks, and LinkedIn at http://linkedin.com/in/corbinlinks.

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Personal Bio

I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest (the one with Microsoft…) and have lived in several other places including California (north and south), Southern Utah and the Northern Virginia – DC area. I’m a husband and father who constantly struggles to find that right “mix” of personal and business. Some of my experiences and findings are found in this blog.

After graduating high school, I (unintentionally…) began a period of career exploration that brought a lot of rich experience into my life. Some of the work I did:

  • Moving and relocation services
  • Security guard and security guard management
  • Catalog sales and customer service
  • Software packing and packages (back in the days of floppies)
  • Packaging beer bottles into 12-pack boxes
  • Landscaping
  • Used car sales
  • Waiter / busboy / dishwasher / host
  • Loan processing assistant
  • Clerk
  • Records delivery driver
  • Insurance inspection and calculation – residential
  • Records archive manager
  • Helpdesk and network engineer
  • And the rest as they say is “history”

My youth was a bit misdirected in the scholastic department and I ended up finishing my college degree long after I was professionally established. I got so much more out of it when I was (finally!) mature enough to appreciate higher education.

Some Stuff I Like to Do

When I’m not working on CorbinLinks.com or numerous other professional projects I:

  • Hang out with my family
  • Walk and hike
  • Drive to interesting historical sites (or just take a brisk drive)
  • Read for pleasure (strong interest in history and international trade) and “saw sharpening”
  • Meet interesting people
  • Consume voracious amounts of podcast and iTunes U content (both personal and professional)
  • Study other languages
  • Work on personal and spiritual improvement

Interesting personal fact

One little-known thing about me is that I don’t watch any television. I “unplugged” network television many years ago and have never looked back.

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