As I sit here feverishly refreshing the MSDN Subscriber Downloads page, waiting for the RTM release of Windows 7 to become available. I thought I’d take a moment to shoot a brief update.
Since starting my new job, I’ve really let my Cisco training slip. I’ve been bouncing around, going back and forth in my studies. One day it will be SCOM, the next ITIL. Then one day I’ll spend researching Powershell. Basically a lot of work without getting a whole lot accomplished.
That’s not to say I’m not learning anything. However, I’m not exactly keeping my promise to myself to acquire one new certification per Quarter.
However! I have just been asked to sell upper management on adopting ITIL Best Practices, and coming up with a strategy to implement it here at AAFES.
This will actually prove to be a very exciting opportunity.
Certification, Cisco, ITIL, jobs, MSDN, training, Window 7
So it’s been a few weeks since I’ve updated the site. I was finally able to crawl out from under this economy and find some work. First of all, a big thank you to a friend of mine that hooked me up with some consulting work. I really thought this was going to get me through a couple more months of job searching. But then, I got a full time job offer. And then, I got another consulting gig. And THEN, I got ANOTHER consulting gig! Needles to say, I’m quite busty.
In addition to that, I’m still trying to find the time to work on the yard, and study for my CCNA. In fact I just purchased my first Cisco router! It’s a SOHO 817W with Advanced IP Services. Basically this thing does just about every single thing the big boys do, just on a smaller scale.
It’s got:
- Switching with VLANs
- WLAN 802.11b/g
- Stateful Inspection Firewall
- IPSec VPNs
- Intrusion Prevention
- RIP, OSPF, etc…
- Spanning Tree
And the list just goes on and on… Basically everything I need to study for the CCNA!
Check it out yourself!
So anyways, hopefully I’ll get caught up and can work on some more tutorial videos. In fact, I actually have several things I’d like to share. Maybe I’ll make a few videos setting up the 871W :)
871W, CCNA, Cisco, jobs, Video
