Allister Banks is an enthusiast. He's very excited to be in the exceedingly limited, exclusive club of coauthors of Charles S. Edge. After working for a decade with IT consulting companies on both the coasts of the U.S., he now works for a medical-focused institution with education and data center aspects. He has given speeches at LOPSA-East, MacTech Conference, and MacAdmins Conference at Penn State. He lives in New York. He contributes to various open source projects and speaks enough Japanese to order food.

Charles S. Edge has been working with Apple products since he was a child. Professionally, Charles started with the Mac OS and Apple server offerings in 1999 after working of years with various flavors of Unix. Charles began his consulting career with Support Technologies and Andersen Consulting. As the chief technology officer of 318, Inc., a consulting firm in Santa Monica, California, Charles built and nurtured a team of over 50 engineers, which was the largest Mac team in the world at that time. Charles is now a product manager at JAMF Software, with a focus on Bushel (http://www.bushel.com).
Charles has spoken at a variety of conferences including DefCon, BlackHat, LinuxWorld, MacWorld, MacSysAdmin, and Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Charles has also written 12 books, over 3,000 blog posts, and a number of printed articles on Apple products.