Age, Experience, Certs

Purpose of this thread? To give people who are looking to do multiple certs and idea of other peoples experience and time taken to gain certs.

Age: 19
Experiance: 1 year working for an Insurance Broker
Certs: MCDST, 2 Year Nat Dip for IT Practitioners (DDD) (Highest Possible).

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Vask3n

Age: 16

Certs: A+, Security+, working on MCDST

Got my certs before I could get a job, and before I got my driver's license, so no real work experience, sorry =(

Megadeth4168

Age 24
Experience 8 years

2 Years running my own computer repair company
6 Years Information Systems Specialist
Certifications Listed under my name.

yamahafirefly

wow.. talk about feeling young..

Age:
21

Certs:
Currently working on A+ and Network +

OS:
Windows, 98, 2000, XP, NT, XP Pro
Fedora Core

Exp:
1 year document control specialist for biotech company
1 year comp lab tech in college
4 years web developer (freelance)

Currently looking for more work that will get me some experience.

Spur

Age: 23
Certs:
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Experience: 1 year, Help Desk for an ISP company

Moving towards MCSA/MCSE (depends on time spent on CCNP), CCNP during next winter

Knives Out

25.. just under 3 yrs experience,

14 month in a hardware/software deployment team w/ a prov. electricity company
6 months working in a school doing basic pc maintenance
11 months in an on-site tier 2 user/tech support role for ISP
2 months in a service desk role for provincial health regions

ooops, A+.. working on ITIL foundations and net+, hopefully security+ in the near future along w/ some MS certs

strauchr

Knives Out wrote:

25.. just under 3 yrs experience,

14 month in a hardware/software deployment team w/ a prov. electricity company
6 months working in a school doing basic pc maintenance
11 months in an on-site tier 2 user/tech support role for ISP
2 months in a service desk role for provincial health regions

ooops, A+.. working on ITIL foundations and net+, hopefully security+ in the near future along w/ some MS certs

Good luck staying awake studying for ITIL

bcairns

Age: 31
Experience 6 years Lead Programmer, 5 Years IT manager, 20 Years playing video games

Current Certs: A+ Network+ CST CNST - going to take Security+ in two days wish me luck!

Goals:
MCSE:2k3:Security
MCPD:C#:Enterprise Developer
MCITP:SQL:Database Developer
CISSP
Probably a bunch of Linux certs

PS - Wishing I had gotten all these certifications 10 years ago - better late then never

sprkymrk

bcairns wrote:

Current Certs: A+ Network+ CST CNST - going to take Security+ in two days wish me luck!

Luck to ya!!

RussS

Supertech tops he ..... dang that feels good

47

Professional MX racer
Chef de Cuisine
Retail Manager
Catering Manager

Student for 18 mths

IT field for 3 years - Systems Engineer
Certs as listed

billg

Age 51

21 years in the IT field.

Trainer (MCT, CTT+, College level)
DBA (Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase)
Programmer (C++, VB, Web Apps)
Networking (installation, training, troubleshooting)
Hardware (installing, troubleshooting, training, repairing)

I decided to change my focus from Programming, DBA and training to more Networking and hardware. I am presenting studying for Network+ which I will take the exam for at the end of July, A+ at the end of August and Security+ at the end of October. I have taken over 20 certification exams in the last 10 years.

rockstar81

Age 25.5

Exp- 5 years helpdesk support

A+, N+ and MCP XP

Working on CCNA and MCSA Also starting a Degree course which will take 4-5 years as doing it while working full time.