FOA Reference Guide to Fiber Optics: Study Guide to FOA Certification
Jim Hayes is a co-founder and                 President of The Fiber Optic Association, Inc., the                 professional society of fiber optics. He is also a                 partner in VDV Works, a company that provides tech                 support to the voice-data-video industry and training                 and technical content for instructors and schools and                 technical consulting in communications.  Originally                 educated as a physicist and astronomer at Vanderbilt                 University and The University of California at Santa                 Cruz, Jim has been involved with the electronics,                 communications and instrumentation industry  since 1968.                 Since 1980, he has been involved with fiber optics and                 communications. Jim was founder and President of Fotec,                 Inc., the Boston-based fiber optic test equipment                 company which was sold to Fluke Networks in 2001. While                 at Fotec, he started the Fiber U and Cable U training                 conferences. Jim is a frequent lecturer on                 communications, writes monthly columns for Electrical                 Contractor and TED (The Electrical Distributor,) is the                 author of three books, The FOA Reference Guide to Fiber                 Optics, The  Fiber Optic Technicians Manual and Data,                 Voice and Video Cabling  as well as numerous articles on                 fiber optics and cabling. His cabling curriculum is used                 by several hundred schools worldwide. In 2003, Jim was                 selected as one of the "luminaries" of the fiber optic                 industry by FPN magazine. In 2007, he was chosen one of                 the Top Ten Pioneers in fiber to the premises by                 Broadband Properties magazine.