President Biography
2nd Door Enterprises, Inc.'s president and senior network architect is Bradley S. Largent. Born and raised in Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, Brad started his computer destiny originally by exploring electronics. This began when he was 13ish; tearing things apart, building electronic kits, well, mostly tearing things apart. His electronic interests continued into junior high and high school where he was introduced to computers. His electronic and computer interests continued while in the Navy in the early to mid 70's.
After leaving the Navy, Brad with his freshly obtained FCC license and a business partner started his first business. The business provided TV and MATV services to the Holiday Inns in the LA area. His business also provided installation and repair assistance of VHF and UHF aircraft radio for private planes at the Hollywood-Burbank and Van Nuys airports. And lastly, security, audio and video systems design, installation and repair to homes and businesses in the LA area. PC's were just coming out around this time and Brad worked on those too; Apple II, TRS-80, Altair, SWTC 6800 (still has his TRS-80 and SWTC 6800, can you say geek).
This was going very well but the call of computers was strong, with no real training options available Brad attended Control Data Institute to receive more formal training on computers. Brad graduated at the top of the class and was the first to be hired beginning a career that has now spanned 39 years as of this writing.
Brad spent the first seven years of his career working for two computer companies holding such positions and computer/network technician (networks really didn't exist then, just being invented), technical support to field technicians, programmer, and a supervisor. Following his time with computer companies, Brad was hired into the pharmaceutical industry where he worked for 25 years. In 2002, Brad stepped into 2nd Door full-time and has been here since and from what we know intends to die here.
Over his career, Brad has worked on mainframes minis and micros, and probably every peripheral (well at least it seems like it he says). He has designed microcomputers, programmed in languages from assembler to C. His career took him into the network arena where he has designed, maintained and repaired, LANS, WANS, and wireless in most all their various forms from serial and DECNet, to Ethernet and FDDI for LANS, ATM to Sonet for WANS and, well, many more. We could fill this page up with abbreviations and acronyms. Suffice it to say that Brad has worked with almost every network technology and protocol that's existed since the late sixties.
Bottom line, all these skills, all this experience, all this knowledge is what's behind 2nd Door Enterprises, Inc.