What do you do?

did a quick search and didn't find anything on this, thought it would be interesting to see what everyone does. I'll kick off:

Title: Telecommunications Analyst II

Company size/scope: Oil drilling company, 3500+ employees, operations worldwide

Job: Among 2 other coworkers, install, maintain, and repair global satellite communications network (frame relay)among 50 oil rigs spread around the world, from Kazhakstan to New Zealand. Configure teleports (earth stations), as well as rig sites. Deploy to rigs when necessary to repair; provide remote assistance, research/recommend cost effective upgrades that reduce bandwidth usage and save $$.

I've also taken on the additional responsibility of ordering all satellite equipment for fresh installations and repair, as the previous person doing it....well, wasn't.

As a result of taking that on, I've gotten tossed into some project management as well - for example, I just finished up ordering a mile of fiber optics(which I have NO experience in, aside from the class I requested to be on this project), Cisco switches, racks, SFP transceivers, mode conditioning cables, etc. to provide the infrastructure for a "mini-city" that surrounds an oil rig up in Russia. I'll be heading up there in October for about a month to oversee the contractors that we have doing the installation.

EDIT: I forgot, I set up Blackberries, pagers and aircards too for 75 of our employees too. Big deal.

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Mmartin_47

Pursuing MCSE at home. Will upgrade to 2008 and take SQL probably along with CCNA.

Was doing my college degree online but put it on pause until 291 is done. Then I plan on working at probably Circuit City for FireDog. My first job and probably only option... =/

swabbies

Title: Network Engineer
Company Size/Scope: Financial Company, 6000 employees, operations worldwide.

Job: Work on a team of 15 that maintains the global corporate network. We manage approximately 900 cisco devices, and maintain F5 and wan acceleration devices.

The job is demanding, but the environment is big enough to get your hands on most of the major technologies.

I love the in depth experience that I am gaining. The only downside is that sometimes I do miss working on Active Directory. The larger the company the more you are forced to specialize.

Forsaken_GA

My official job title is System Administrator II for a web hosting company. My training and experience is more towards the network side of things.

However, when I was interviewing, the company was also looking for a network engineer (there was literally no network department, the senior admins were handling it all. The previous one got hired away by Google). I didn't qualify for the Senior network engineer job, but it was mentioned that they would be looking for a junior admin within the year, and they like to hire from within. A few months later, they hired a network engineer (and a CCIE at that), and I've spent a good deal of time doing work for him (lately, this has consisted of running and punching down cable... not my favorite task in the world!).

I took the job (and they took a chance on giving me the job) despite the fact that I hadn't touched any form of Unix in about three years. They were willing to take a chance on me so that I could grow into a position they knew they'd have a need for down the road.

I'm glad I accepted the position, as it's been a real eye opened to be able to do my studies at the same time as having an enterprise class network to deal with as part of my job, and a CCIE available to bounce my questions off of. It doesn't hurt that the company has an awesome culture, either. It's easily my favorite job out of everything that I've worked.

Just an example of sometimes you have to take a different exit than the one Mapquest shows you to get where you want to be

bjaxx

Forsaken_GA wrote:

My official job title is System Administrator II for a web hosting company. My training and experience is more towards the network side of things.

However, when I was interviewing, the company was also looking for a network engineer (there was literally no network department, the senior admins were handling it all. The previous one got hired away by Google). I didn't qualify for the Senior network engineer job, but it was mentioned that they would be looking for a junior admin within the year, and they like to hire from within. A few months later, they hired a network engineer (and a CCIE at that), and I've spent a good deal of time doing work for him (lately, this has consisted of running and punching down cable... not my favorite task in the world!).

I took the job (and they took a chance on giving me the job) despite the fact that I hadn't touched any form of Unix in about three years. They were willing to take a chance on me so that I could grow into a position they knew they'd have a need for down the road.

I'm glad I accepted the position, as it's been a real eye opened to be able to do my studies at the same time as having an enterprise class network to deal with as part of my job, and a CCIE available to bounce my questions off of. It doesn't hurt that the company has an awesome culture, either. It's easily my favorite job out of everything that I've worked.

Just an example of sometimes you have to take a different exit than the one Mapquest shows you to get where you want to be

Title: System Administrator

This job has given me the opportunity to grow and manage my own projects and work on the solutions I want to implement.

We house around 250 employees and are a paper manufacturing company.

This job has alot of open doors, working with sql, exchange 2007, barracuda, virtual iron, blackberry, terminal servers, back up exec 12, writing crystal reports and managing anything domain related.

Working with HP ProCurve Switches.

We currently run HP-UX boxes for are business application - Which I know nothing about.

Pretty much everything I have learned is because I have been put in the hot seat to perform.

Which I owe alot to this place for the help.

Thanks,

royal

Title: Network Engineer

I do Exchange, Office Communications Server, ISA, and DPM. Currently I am working on Enterprise Voice (use your computer as a phone). In a couple weeks I'll deploying OCS for Instant Messaging, Web Conferencing, Audio Conferenicng, and Video Conferencing for a global organization. After that I will be doing Enterprise Voice again with Exchange Unified Messaging integration as its' voicemail system. After that, don't know.

I also manage and built our lab in our office which contains OCS Voice, Exchange Unified Messaging (with the message waiting indicator), and worked with our Cisco guys to integrate that into our Cisco infrastructure.

I consult mostly with Medium Sized businesses and Enterprise Sized businesses.

bjaxx

royal wrote:

Title: Network Engineer

I do Exchange, Office Communications Server, ISA, and DPM. Currently I am working on Enterprise Voice (use your computer as a phone). In a couple weeks I'll deploying OCS for Instant Messaging, Web Conferencing, Audio Conferenicng, and Video Conferencing for a global organization. After that I will be doing Enterprise Voice again with Exchange Unified Messaging integration as its' voicemail system. After that, don't know.

I also manage and built our lab in our office which contains OCS Voice, Exchange Unified Messaging (with the message waiting indicator), and worked with our Cisco guys to integrate that into our Cisco infrastructure.

I consult mostly with Medium Sized businesses and Enterprise Sized businesses.

Royal,

I knew you didn't do anything that cool....

Impressive to say the least

HeroPsycho

Title: Senior Systems Engineer

Company size/scope: IT services consulting firm, <50 employees, specializing in Symantec, VMware, and Microsoft products

Job: One of two engineers in corporate branch location, service local customers for Active Directory, Exchange, ISA, security, and VMware needs, from maintenance and admin to full scale deployments. Customers are diverse, from small to enterprise sized. Also, to seek the Holy Grail.

scheistermeister

Professional Cert Monkey... Read unemployed bum...

IT_Admin

Title: System Administrator

Company size/scope: Telecommunications Company, 5000+ employees (worldwide)

Have 2 different sites to maintain. Look after win2k, win2k3 servers, manage a citrix environment. Configure voip phones, responsible for WSUS servers for my sites, in the process of upgrading 150-200 machines from win98 (yes win98!!) to XP.

vCole

Title: Help Desk Technician

Job Duties: Provide technical support to end users in the corporate office, (where I am currently located), our four southern remote offices & 400+ job sites. Also, I manage all telecommunications for the whole company.

bertieb

Title: Doughnut Holer

I get to put the holes in jam doughnuts. I'm a bit sick of it though, so I'm looking for promotion to the mighty ranks of 'Croissant Bender' in the near future.

(PS scheistermeister, hang in there. With that newly found CCNP I'm sure you'll find a role soon. Good luck)

TechJunky

Title: Systems Administrator

Company Size/Scope: Company size 2000+ Employees, operations world wide.

Job: Enterprise Application Provider. Maintain the corporate platform with a team of 3 employees. We also do consulting work for many companies throughout the U.S. Our new partner is Apple and that has been consuming a lot of my time.

Slowhand

My title? "Professional student".

Well, I've had lots of jobs, but in IT I've heald the following:
* A+ Technician
* Helpdesk Technician
* Systems Engineer
* Systems Administrator
* IT Systems Support Specialist

And right now, since I had to both drop my classes for the semester and I got dropped out of the last job, my title is CLE and TVWP: "Couch Lounging Expert" and "TV Watching Professional".

Once I've got a new job, I'll post up whatever title they give me.

Pash

Title: Systems Engineer / Cowboy

Description: Small to Medium to Enterprise. Everything and anything :P Voice, data, security in a mixture of support and project work. I am doing more documentation at the moment than engineering though. Damn this blame game world where everything needs change control.

My cowboy instincts are crazy enough to want to fix things so that users can work, clearly that is never the end goal any more!

Nice reading on others.

Cheers,

paintb4707

Wow, nothing as crazy as you guys.

Title: Network Administrator

Description: Nutritional supplement manufacturer. Mid-sized company with about 300 employees but only 50-60 computer end-users.

Job: Well, I independently maintain the infrastructure for the entire company. When I started my employment, we only had 2 tower servers. 1 was a SQL/File Server and the other was a promoted Exchange server.

Make a long story short we now have 9 servers in a rack: 2 DCs, 1 exchange, 2 SQL, 1 application, 1 vmware server for Double-Take failover, 1 WSUS/PRTG, and 1 file server for d2d backups.

Also implemented and maintain VPN remote access as well as the typical smart phones and blackberries for POP3SSL.