Lori Mac Vittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application services available across F5’s entire product suite. Her role includes authorship of technical materials and participation in a number of community-based forums and industry standards organizations, among other efforts. Mac Vittie has extensive programming experience as an application architect, as well as network and systems development and administration expertise. 

Prior to joining F5, Mac Vittie was an award-winning Senior Technology Editor at Network Computing Magazine, where she conducted product research and evaluation focused on integration with application and network architectures, and authored articles on a variety of topics aimed at IT professionals. She is the author of “XAML in a Nutshell” (O’Reilly, 2006), and co-author of “Object Oriented Programming” (CBM Books, 1996).

She holds a B.S. in Information and Computing Science from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Nova Southeastern University. 

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