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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strauchr

I gather you meant thread and not threat!

Age: 27
Exp: 8 years total

2 years Help Desk and Systems Admin for major Telco (internal) (Perth)
2 years Senior Systems Engineer and Support as well as small projects at major insurance company (Perth)
2.5 years as a Systems Engineer/Design and Consultant to insurance industry (Perth)
1.5 years AD Design Engineer, Project Manager, Technical Lead for major Investment Bank (London)

Certs: Listed under my name

edit: A bit more clarification.

LukeQuake

Doh!

- Typo

BF2Mad

Age: 23
Certs: MCP (but I have high hopes

)
Experience:
- 1 year on a IT help desk
- 3 years Local\remote desktop for Computer Science Corporation (CSC)
- 1 year 2nd/3rd line Support and everything else the company wants.

simon86

Age: 20
Certs - A+, MCDST, MCP, MCSA 2k3, (Just waiting on results for ITIL foundation).. MOS is next

Experience:
- 1.5 years hardware sales
- 1.5 years hardware maintenance (desktop, servers, laserjets etc) / 3rd line support
- 6 months (so far) 2nd line support. Mainly supporting Novell, Notes, Office and lots of custom apps for 2000+ users..

int80h

Age: 25
Certs: listed to the left

Experience: 5 years total. I'm lucky here, none of the projects I've worked only invovlved just 1 area of IT, so I've gained experience in multiple areas at once.

software:
4 years experience real-time software devel
1 year experience database software devel (MySQL, Oracle)

hardware:
1 year experience VHDL hardware design
2 years experience analog to digital converters design
1 year experience AutoCAD/mechanical drawings

networking:
2 years designing RS 485 networks
2 years designing CAN and LIN networks

Munck

Age: 26

Experience: app. 4 years.

6 months as helpdesk
3 years as system administrator
present job: IT-Security Consultant

<---- Certs

Humper

Age: 20

Experience: 3 years

A couple contracts as a Technical Analyst, now I on a new contract for Network support (jr. network analyst)

Certs: CCNA, working on CCNP
Present Job: Jr. Network Analyst ^^

crap I forgot my old pwd

age: 19

certs: CST, CWS, CNST, CIW-Associate, MCP, A+, Network+, i-Net+, Security+

exp: 3 years - geek squad and doing contract work for small businesses like network security, servers, etc.

working on MCP 70-272 and CCNA ICND to finish my MCDST and CCNA. Then on to HTI+. Also working on a Degree in Computer Science from UNiversity of Illinois at Chicago.

garv221

Age: Turned 25 last week
Certs: listed

Exp: 6 years

.5 year service tech
1 year network tech
2 years System Admin
1 year Network Engineer
1.5 years IT Director ~ present

Software

6 years MS

Hardware

Cisco 3 years routing/switching & VLANs, VPN
2 years desiging PIX, 4 series switches

kaur812

age: 17

Certs: MCP 70-270, working on 70-290 and some kind of Oracle cert

(I take part in Oracle Internet Academy course Database Design and Programming)

Experience: IT specialist/support for two really small companys (4 computers in each)

jlhct

Wow, looking at the ages posted so far I feel old!

Age: 33

Experience: 8 years Help desk/Desktop Support, 4 years Network Admin.

Certs: MCP - Windows XP, Novell CNA, hope to add Security + and ISC's after my relocation out west.

xwesleyxwillisx

Age: 18
Experience: 1 Year PC Tech, 2 days into Systems Tech for local Cisco partner
Certs: CCNA, A+, N+

evanderburg

Experience: (11 years)
Tech Support: 1 year
Network Admin: 3 years
Consulting: 5 years (Networking & Security)
Teaching: 2 years

Certs:
MCT, MCSE, MCDBA, CWSP, MCSA, CCNA, CWNA, MCDST, CNST, CIW-A, CST, CWS, A+, Network+, iNet+, Security+, Project Management (2000), Systems Analysis

jpeezy55

jlhct wrote:

Wow, looking at the ages posted so far I feel old!

Age: 33

Experience: 8 years Help desk/Desktop Support, 4 years Network Admin.

Certs: MCP - Windows XP, Novell CNA, hope to add Security + and ISC's after my relocation out west.

Here, I'll make you feel young again.

I'm 36

Experience: Well, not much. I am a PC Tech celebrating my 1 year anniversary at this job next week. I do Help Desk/Support type work in a School District. No Network Admin at all (they are screwed up and I don't get to the server room much, but I do have an interview on Wednesday the 14th with a different company for something better, I hope)

Certs: A+, CST, MCP (270 and 290) and working on Net+ then back to 291 for my MCSA and wherever from there...

The reason for my late start...I worked for a company doing sales for over 8 years and was "downsized" in September of 2004. Went back to school for 14 months to get some certs and here I am!

The only thing I have going for me is 23 years for informal computer repair and work...my first computer had a whopping 4K -- yes, 4k -- 3,825 BYTES of memory and used a cassette for storage and a 300 BAUD modem. My they've come a long way...

strauchr

Phew! I was starting to think I would end up being the oldest. Interesting to see more experienced people have CNA - from when the big red N ruled the networks!!

okie

Age: 27
Exp: 7 years total

5 years Network Administrator/IT Director for mid-size school in Oklahoma
(quite the variety of skills developed there)
2 years basic PC tech work with all MS OS's

Certs: at left

I did my certs over a two year period. Nothing was too bad after I had taken one MS test and my CCNA test.

sprkymrk

Okay, guess I'll respond as the oldest so far:

Age 38
Certs:
See info at left, plus several gov't specific certs such as Computer Network Defence, System Administrator/Network Manager Security, Information Assurance Security Officer, and Vulnerability Assessment Tech 1.

Exp:
12 years as journeyman electrician - the journeyman's electrical exam was harder than any computer cert I have taken, it was a 6 hour exam with 50 multple choice closed book, 50 multiple choice open book (actually harder than the closed book) and 25 calculations questions. At the time the national pass rate was 1 out of 4 on first attempt, I passed with an 85%.

2 years service tech (3 schools and a church)
2 years Team Leader level 2 help desk and network
2 years Network Admin for a small 50 user\3 server network
3 years Sr LAN Admin 400 user\25 server network

JDMurray

sprkymrk wrote:

Okay, guess I'll respond as the oldest so far:

Age 38

I'll see your 38 and raise you my age of 43. Can anyone top that?

keenon

lets see

age 31

6 years of experience

1 year helpdesk
1 year system admin
1 year IT director- company folded
3 years Network Engineer

certs: tow motor operator, N+, CCNA, currently working on CCNP

mwill

Age: 22
Years of exp: 2.5

1 year Senior support tech @ Dell computers - call center
1.5 years of desktop/network support at a Healthcare company - Present

Certs: Dell cert DCSE, N+, MCP, CCNA - working towards CCNP

sprkymrk

jdmurray wrote:

sprkymrk wrote:

Okay, guess I'll respond as the oldest so far:

Age 38

I'll see your 38 and raise you my age of 43. Can anyone top that?

Dang, I bet you remember when the Dead Sea was just sick!

12thlevelwarrior

32

6 years

4 tech support
2 sys admin

mcp, working towards mcsa

supertechCETma

age 51

exp 25

4yrs - submarine/satellite digital communications
21yrs - process industries instrumentation & controls - from mainframes to embedded, anything 120v and below.

billybob01

I feel Young again!!!!!!!

Age 40. 3 Yrs I.T Exp
2 yrs with IBM
1 yr in Education as an ICT Administrator

SRTMCSE

Age: 22 years old
Experience: 3 years
Certification: MCSE:Security 2003, MCDST, MCP, C|EA, Security+, Network+, A+

2 years Technical Services (desktop support) for a large IT bootcamp
1 year Network/Systems Admin. for a small community bank
Misc. projects for consulting firms in between jobs

hanakuin

Certifications to the left. Age: 30. 5 years Sys Admin (One of Many) for an Aerospace Contractor. 6 years Sys Admin (Only One) for a Community Bank.

biggene

Age:38

Certs: A+, working on 270, then Net+, then finishing MCSE for 2k3

Experience:
13 years helpdesk for various contract companies
1 year Desktop Support

It has taken me quite a while to figure out exactly where in the computer industry I wanted to go, but now I am on track, have a great job with an awesome boss, and hope to be Net+ and MCSE by the end of the year

Gene

LukeQuake

Best of luck to ya!

Nathan of GothTech

Age: 23

Experience: 4 Years Computer tech
Run a PC Repair business in Sumter, SC

Certification: A+, Network+, Dell F2005 Desktops

strauchr

biggene wrote:

Age:38

Certs: A+, working on 270, then Net+, then finishing MCSE for 2k3

Experience:
13 years helpdesk for various contract companies
1 year Desktop Support

It has taken me quite a while to figure out exactly where in the computer industry I wanted to go, but now I am on track, have a great job with an awesome boss, and hope to be Net+ and MCSE by the end of the year

Gene

13 years in Help Desk!! That would have killed me - you must be tough