IT veteran... Where to now...

I am 41, have been working in IT all my life (21 years now) and I have always loved working with technology.

My experience has been mostly with Microsoft products, and in the past 6 years with VMware as well. I recently completed the CCNA certification for 'fun' as I never had much exposure to that side and I enjoy it.

As a consultant working for a big firm, I am now trying to move more into an IT architect position as opposed to operations/sysadmin role.

I have time to study, and I enjoy learning stuff. What do you think would be a good training plan? I'm more of a generalist than a specialist but I find it gets very tedious to keep on top of all those technologies

My current certs:

MCITP:EA
MCTS: HyperV
VCP 2/3/4
CCNA
Security+/A+
Plus a bunch of expired ones... MCSE NT4, MCP Windows 2000 etc...

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NinjaBoy

You could look into the ITAC certification program.

You state that you're a consultant. You may qualify for level 1 or 2, then work your way up from there.

I'm not sure about price for it now a days, when I looked into it a few years ago it was more than what I wanted to pay (besides I didn't have the indepth experience that they require imo).

-ken

SUBnet192

NinjaBoy wrote: »

You could look into the ITAC certification program.

You state that you're a consultant. You may qualify for level 1 or 2, then work your way up from there.

I'm not sure about price for it now a days, when I looked into it a few years ago it was more than what I wanted to pay (besides I didn't have the indepth experience that they require imo).

-ken

My view of architecture is more in solutions design i.e. technical aspect vs "enterprise" architecture where you provide general orientations etc... Thanks for the suggestion though.

za3bour

Have you looked at ITIL or CISSP maybe?

SUBnet192

I am already ITIL v3 Foundation certified (and that was plenty enough for me lol)... CISSP? Not enough experience in security to go for that one.

laidbackfreak

SUBnet192 wrote: »

CISSP? Not enough experience in security to go for that one.

Don't bet on that, if you've been working MS for last 20 odd years you'll probably find you qualify.