——About
A senior network practice, built for work that has to be right.
Herman Stone INC is a California corporation founded in 2024 — a principal-led network engineering practice serving MSP partners and regulated client environments from Southern California.
The arch — our recurring mark
01—The principal
Stone Azefor, Principal Engineer
Named accountability · Senior on every engagement
Eighteen-plus years of senior network engineering — Cisco SD-WAN, ISE, Catalyst Center, and campus switching alongside Palo Alto Panorama, PA-series, and Prisma SD-WAN. Deep healthcare, enterprise, and public-sector experience across Southern California.
Stone leads the technical review, partner rehearsal, and delivery handoff on every engagement. White-label work stays discreet under the partner’s brand, while responsibility for the engineering remains explicit. Rigorous change control and audit-ready documentation are defaults, not upsells.
- Years
- 18+
- Stack
- Cisco · PAN
- Region
- SoCal
02—The partner model
Built to protect the relationship you already own.
Herman Stone requires written scope, confidentiality, and account-protection terms before client access. The MSP keeps account ownership and client communication; HSI supplies principal-level review, change evidence, and delivery support behind the partner brand.
- California Corporation · est. 2024
- Principal-led delivery
- Written scope · confidentiality · account protection
- Cisco · Palo Alto Networks · Prisma
03—Operating principles
Four invariants, on every engagement.
- I.
Senior expertise only
Principal-level engineering on every engagement — no juniors learning on your network.
- II.
Safety and rollback
Every change is staged, peer-reviewed, and reversible. The back-out plan exists before the cut.
- III.
Documentation as deliverable
Diagrams, SOPs, and evidence you can hand to an auditor or enterprise customer.
- IV.
Clear, direct communication
Plain English. Written summaries after every working session. No jargon walls.