HOT CCIE JOBS!!!

Eman just sent these to me to share with you:

Cisco Voice engineer – Dallas, Texas – Eligible to work in the USA only please

Opportunity Snapshot

In this position you will play a leadership role in a fast moving entrepreneurial company and enjoy the “best of both worlds:” the tight-knit camaraderie of a smaller organization (with a big company benefits package) and the technical impact of a strong Cisco Premier Certified Partner. In addition to coordinating and acting as a resource to an Engineering team of six, you’ll be involved in projects from cradle to grave — and we won’t pigeonhole you; you’ll touch on all disciplines: UC, Network, Wireless, and Security.

 To be a good fit for this opportunity you will have a current, valid CCIE in Voice and solid engineering experience with current Cisco technologies, particularly voice and security. Quick question for you – click here

Cisco voice/UC engineering (Call Manager, Unity, ICC Express, Cisco Presence)

Within the last 5 years, what role did the above play in your job:

 To apply click here and use this link to submit your resume and information. You will be credited to the CCIE Agent as one of my candidates. 

http://neteranetworks.jobinfo.com/description.lasso?jid=9900308&refid=1742

Senior Network Engineer – Pleasanton, California – US eligible only please

Opportunity Snapshot

This position offers you the opportunity not only to work with the latest Cisco and Microsoft technologies, but also to take on intriguing and challenging projects — we frequently take complex projects on referral from Cisco and other partners. You will become part of a small, entrepreneurial company that is growing strong; in the past few months we’ve added seven new team members, and this position also will help us meet the booming demand for our services. The team you’ll join is highly competent, fanatically committed to customer satisfaction.

 To be a good fit for this opportunity ideally you will have a CCIE or be working towards one (preferably in Voice), significant experience engineering with Cisco networking products and strong knowledge of routing & switching and networking.

 We’re looking for a professional with technical expertise that is a cut above the rest as well as the ability to explain technical issues clearly to diverse audiences; consulting experience is strongly preferred. You also will need a passion for learning new skills, technologies and processes.

 ExtraTeam is a thirteen-year veteran of the technology industry. We provide communications, networking and data center services and solutions across multiple vertical markets. As our clients’ extra team we are there when they need us, earning repeat business through expertise, innovation and a track record of outstanding customer satisfaction. These are just a few reasons we earned the 2008 Cisco award for Unified Communications Partner of the year.

What Else You’ll Bring to the Table

In addition to the qualifications detailed above, you’ll need:

 * A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant field; we also will consider non-degreed candidates with significant and relevant experience.

* Strong written and oral communication skills, including proficiency in business and technical writing as well as presentations.

 Ideal candidates will have experience with many of the following technologies:

 * Cisco UC Manager and all of its supporting products (Unity, UCCX, MeetingPlace and so on).

* Security Products such as ASA, IPS, 802.1x, ACS, FWSM.

* Datacenter Core products such as Nexus, 4900, 6500, 7600, ACE/CSM.

* Enterprise wireless — WLC, WiSM, Wireless Voice.

* Juniper networking products.

 Microsoft certifications are a plus.

 Follow this link to apply directly:

http://extrateam.jobinfo.com/description.lasso?jid=9900568&refid=1742

CCIE Network Engineer – Houston, Texas – USA eligable only please

Use the link below to apply directly

Opportunity Snapshot

Whether you have solid network engineering experience or are a recent grad just launching your career, this position offers you a unique environment in which to showcase your expertise. You will enjoy the best of both worlds: the entrepreneurial energy of a smaller company in which your ideas will be welcome, and the stability and status normally associated with much larger companies: we work with seven of the ten largest companies in Texas, and we recently were named 2009 Cisco Commercial Partner of the Year for the 11-state “South Area.” In addition, you’ll work with the most current technologies; for example, we are one of 25 partners Cisco selected to pilot its leading edge TelePresence solutions.

 To be a good fit for this opportunity you will have a current CCIE or passed the written exam.

 To apply online use this link:

 http://accudatasystems.jobinfo.com/description.lasso?jid=9900517&refid=1742

Cisco Voice engineer – Dallas, Texas – Eligible to work in the USA only please

Opportunity Snapshot

In this position you will play a leadership role in a fast moving entrepreneurial company and enjoy the “best of both worlds:” the tight-knit camaraderie of a smaller organization (with a big company benefits package) and the technical impact of a strong Cisco Premier Certified Partner. In addition to coordinating and acting as a resource to an Engineering team of six, you’ll be involved in projects from cradle to grave — and we won’t pigeonhole you; you’ll touch on all disciplines: UC, Network, Wireless, and Security.

 To be a good fit for this opportunity you will have a current, valid CCIE in Voice and solid engineering experience with current Cisco technologies, particularly voice and security. Quick question for you – click here

Cisco voice/UC engineering (Call Manager, Unity, ICC Express, Cisco Presence)

Within the last 5 years, what role did the above play in your job:

 To apply click here and use this link to submit your resume and information. You wil be credited to the CCIE Agent as one of my candidates.

 http://neteranetworks.jobinfo.com/description.lasso?jid=9900308&refid=1742

More FREE Stuff For Voice Candidates!!!

VoiceBootcamp is offering a unique opportunity for CCIE Voice or CCVP for low as as $1299 USD The Terms and Condition for VoiceBootcamp Exclusive offer is now posted. 

You can take a look at the Terms and condition and decide if you wish to continue.  Should you wish to continue you must proceed with the purpose otherwise you can ignore it.   To view Terms and Condition please go to this link – http://www.voicebootcamp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=139 

Seats QTYs are limited to 10 to 15.  So it first come first server and will last until Jan 31st 2010.    

Also don’t forget to download – Sample labs of our new product call – Call Routing and Dial Plan DVD set. Call Routing and Dial Plan DVD set will contain over 50 labs focusing on how to create/configure dial plan on Cisco IOS Router as well as Unified Communication Manager.   Dial Plan being one of the toughest topic in CCIE Voice and real world deployment, so we decided to come up with these videos.   

Download – Free Video Labs of – Call Routing and Dial Plan DVD – go to www.voicebootcamp.com and click on Download Center

The Full version will be around $499 to $699 USD.   However if you do purchase the Exclusive Offer Kit then you will receive it for Free.  This is a rare opportunity and you know how much a CCIE VOICE cost around the world.

VoiceBootcamp Offers FREE Online Training!!!

Starts next week

Free Online Seminar

1Free Training – Unity Connection Partition and CSS

2Free Training – Calling Party and Called party Transformation Pattern

3Free Training – UCCX Express – Database Scripting

4Free Training – How to Configure Single Number Reach

Go to www.voicebootcamp.comto register

 We are also running a special CCIE Voice Bootcamp offer for $1299 USD in exchange for beta testing our products.    

Only a handful of people will be selected for this promotion.  To find more details about the procedure and plan, we will be sending out the Terms and Condition paper next week. If anyone is interested to receive this must register to receive this Terms and Condition paper. To Register go to http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e2oehwwsg4602zl8/a016ag4ftk5el/greeting

Thanks for your help.
Faisal H. Khan

FREE Online Training for CCIE Voice Candidates!!!

Hello All:
The folks at VoiceBootcamp are offering some FREE online training that they wanted to share with you.

Starts next week

Free Online Seminar

1Free Training – Unity Connection Partition and CSS

2Free Training – Calling Party and Called party Transformation Pattern

3Free Training – UCCX Express – Database Scripting

4Free Training – How to Configure Single Number Reach

Go to www.voicebootcamp.comto register

 We are also running a special CCIE Voice Bootcamp offer for $1299 USD in exchange for beta testing our products.    

Only a handful of people will be selected for this promotion.  To find more details about the procedure and plan, we will be sending out the Terms and Condition paper next week. If anyone is interested to receive this must register to receive this Terms and Condition paper. To Register go to http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e2oehwwsg4602zl8/a016ag4ftk5el/greeting

Thanks for your help.
Faisal H. Khan

CCIE’s MAKING HISTORY!!!

This is hot off the press from Eman Conde.

CCIEs MAKING HISTORY

EINSTEIN3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_(US-CERT_program)

(Really I don’t Make This Stuff Up!)

I wrote about how dumb I am getting in my old age when I mentioned that kids are helping me along with that degeneration.  (called the Eman Effect) You see kids are like little Einsteins today and I discovered that through the “Dumbing Down”, or as they call it “Renormed” IQ scores that are used today.  What is commonly known as the “Flynn Effect” proves that over time I am being made dumber!

From Wkipedia; IQ tests are re-normalized periodically, in order to maintain the average score for an age group at 100. In fact, the necessity for this re-normalization provided Flynn with an initial indication that IQ was changing over time. The revised versions are standardized on new samples and scored with respect to those samples alone, so the only way to compare the difficulty of two versions of a test is to conduct a separate study in which the same subjects take both versions.^[3] Doing so confirms IQ gains over time.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect)

If Einstein had taken an IQ test it has been estimated his IQ would have been about 160 and that was in 1920.   So according to the Flynn Effect the score of the average child in diapers with an average IQ today is actually as smart as Einstein!

That is why the next generation of Network Engineers is smarter than the first was right out of the starting gate!  So it comes to pass that more cool work is being created for these young minds to be challenged by.

Why do I share such tidbits with you? 

Because I have this thing about spilling my unrestrained thoughts out to you, that and I was excited to learn about roles supporting what may be the coolest project I have been asked to provide CCIEs for ever.  Back in the 90s I was providing IT staff as part of the Human Genome project and those IT guys really were psyched about being a part of the endeavor.  Today I was asked to help staff a huge government initiative called Einstein3 with engineers who hold Top Secret/SCI, Homeland Security and Full Scope/Lifestyle Poly clearances.

The Einstein Program is an intrusion detection system that monitors the gateways of US government agencies in the USA.   There have been various phases of this program and now we arrive at Einstein3.  Talk about your cyber wars and the ether strewn with data carnage!  This is cool stuff.  I mean, how long would you have to look to find a job where you would literally had a chance to grin all day and do real cool stuff that would make your resume look like Arnold shared steroids with it?  As long as it took to call me or shoot me an email actually!

Several companies are asking me to help provide staff for some of the coolest work a CCIE or IT professional could ever find.  So if you are a developer, Project Manager, CCIE, IT Security professional or CCIE (I know I said CCIE twice didn’t I?).  What are you waiting for shoot me an email eman@ccieflyer.com and let’s talk – these roles are piling up with over 80 that I am aware of in and around Washington, DC. 

What you need to do is remember kids stay away from drugs, don’t whine, make sure you are Santa Clause worthy, keep your criminal record clear of anything but tickets, and most of all (drum roll please) contact your local CCIE Agent™.

If you take my advice and study real hard in school passing a few Cisco certifications along the way you too can make History.  Those folks who get a chance to work in this history making cyber security program will have added to their resumes inclusion into an arena that will push their careers for the foreseeable future.  Ok well maybe just until they retire. 

 Einstein 3: Version 3.0 of Einstein has been discussed to prevent attacks by “shoot[ing] down an attack before it hits its target”.^[24] The NSA is moving forward to begin a program known as “Einstein 3,” which will monitor “government computer traffic on private sector sites,” with AT&T thought of as being the first. The plan, which was devised under the Bush administration, is controversial given the history of the NSA and the warrantless wiretapping scandal. Many DHS officials fear that the program should not move forward, because of “uncertainty about whether private data can be shielded from unauthorized scrutiny.”^[25] Some believe the program will invade the privacy of individuals too much^[26].  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_(US-CERT_program)

No longer a passive hardening of sites, Einstein3 is actually charged with going on the offensive.  How coo is that?  Going out and “Shooting Down” offending sites is part of the goal of Einstein3.  Still got your attention huh?!

Let me know if you have any of the important clearances needed to be a part of this awsome program and I will be happy to pull you away from that really boring security role you are in now.  Make big bucks and kill stuff now that’s real cool!

Peace!

Interview With Faisal Khan From VoiceBootcamp!!!!

It is my pleasure to interview Faisal Khan – President/CEO of VoiceBootcamp Inc. Faisal is a Voice instructor at VoiceBootcamp Inc.

Larry: Obviously, from the name of your company VoiceBootcamp, you are in the voice training business. What made you want to specialize in voice?

 Faisal: I decided to focus on Voice out of passion for these technologies.   I believe to be an EXPERT, you need to focus on one area.  It’s like a Doctor, some specialize in the Brain or Heart while others on Children, etc.  But what is common among them is they are all doctors but specialized in certain area.  You won’t see a doctor who specializes in the Brain performing heart surgery.   But I am sure he knows about the heart.  So same rule applies to CCIEs.  If CCIEs are considered to be expert, we need to focus on one area and I believe devoting 80% to 100% on certain topic makes you an expert otherwise you are a professional

 I stopped going after CCIE exams when I achieved two.  I realize having triple or 4 or 5 CCIE, I would be doing disservice to myself.  I will not be focused on any area.  I don’t believe for one moment that one can do CCIE Voice, R/S and SP, Wireless every month and still consider to be expert.   These days I feel bad to call myself R/S Expert because I lost touch with R/S.

 VoiceBootcamp is a small company started by just me.  So I decided to focus 100% on Unified Communication and become an expert in that topic.

Larry: That is an interesting take on it. I can definitely see your point about focusing in on one area. When folks ask me about what track they should go for I always say “the one that interests you the most”.
I  see that you offer training all over the world. Do most of the classes fill up?

 Faisal: VoiceBootcamp run classes globally.  If class does not get fill up we will take serious financial loss.  So to answer your question yes, most classes are full if not at least with minimum requirement to ensure we don’t take financial loss.

 Larry: I took the CCVP+ Bootcamp earlier this year. It was 2 full weeks of 12 hours a day non-stop training. Are your CCIE Voice bootcamp classes as intense?

Faisal: Our CCIE VOICE is as intensive as our CCVP +.  Over the years, CCIE VOICE has changed and we have changed our strategy.  

 A typical day of a CCIE VOICE candidate in one of our training center around the globe is ss follow:
Since every student has been given CCIE VOICE Lecture on DVD, their job is to watch the pre-recorded lectures (Per day basis) prior to attending the class.  Student arrives on the 1^st day, after the orientation we will review those lectures and have an open discussion.  Then student start the lab based on the lab that is also given to them in advance.  Around 4:00 PM every day 1 hour will be allocated to discuss and demonstrate some CCIE VOICE Trouble Shooting tips from our CCIE VOICE troubleshooter product based on the topic covered that day.   This way you will know how to troubleshoot the network.

Larry: Sounds like a good learning experience and a slightly different take from the traditional CCIE bootcamp.
I know that you are always doing something to develop products or teaching classes. Do you ever sleep?

 Faisal: I am human being so sure I do sleep. I am a married person with a son who is 3 years old.  I spent most of my time when I am not working with my son. I travel a lot so I have to sleep.

 I don’t take vacation that much because if you love something so much (as I do for my work in this technology) then you should not be taking vacation. Vacation is something you do to enjoy and I enjoy my work. But then since I travel a lot, I get to see many countries, enjoy different food, culture and often my family will come with me once in a while.

 Larry: You really do have a passion for teaching!!!
What do see for the future of the Voice lab? There was a big change made this year with the change of version of the UC products tested. Do you foresee any other big changes in the near future?

 Faisal: I see Voice has huge future. Simply take a look at the PSTN technologies. For telephone companies it took over 100 years to build the PSTN infrastructure worldwide.  VoIP just started.  All the companies in the world, All the household in the world will have voice enable devices.  Your Fridge at home will be voice enabled, these days your car use voice enable features.  Think about the future where one day your car can make a 911 call in case of a emergency and you are now talking to the E911 operator over VoIP and they are using GPS to track your location.   

 Most of the feature added by Cisco in Unified Communication is not new to Telephony world.  I mean similar feature already existed in traditional PBX.  Cisco just finally got their product up to PBX standard.     I am sure Cisco will come up with lots more integration in their CallManager -for example using IP Phone to initiate a database lookup or customer query directly from CallManager. Enable CallManager to talk to multiple Active Directory for different companies.   May be one day all Cisco IP Phone will initiate a direct VPN Connection by using a built in VPN client so all the issue with security and/or NAT may be resolved. 

 I think the next big thing will be Video enable IP Phone in house to house in any given countries. 

  Larry: Interesting ideas!!!
You do actual voice implementations while you are not teaching  and developing materials. From your real world experience, what do you see as the future for folks that are in the voice market? Will there still be a demand for these specialized skills?

 Faisal: Yes, this one thing I always have done.  I do believe in order for me to keep up to date, I have to be involved in project.  So I often do lots of design and architect work or provide call center design for small business.  Nothing big or huge.  Simply stuff to keep going.  I have another company call UC Solutions which is Cisco Premier partner and Microsoft Gold Partner where we provide small to midsize consulting service for partners.  Although we don’t do big project as I am short of resource but my idea one of these days is to become a global player.

 Larry: Thanks for taking the time out of your schedule to share with the readers of the blog. Any last words you would like to share with the readers – maybe a special;-)?

 Faisal: Focus, Love the technology.  Don’t just go for CCIE certs.  CCIE Voice cert is useless if you don’t know the product inside out.  I mean I have been teaching CCIE Voice around the globe, met with many different people and many are not ready to become a CCIE but they will by some means or other.  So to be a true CCIE, make sure you understand the concept.  You should be able to live and breathe this technology.  We all want Certs to get more money or secure a job, but while you are doing it, Enjoy the technology. 

 I have seen candidate who are burning themselves doing this lab over and over just to get the number but I don’t see them enjoying it.

 Here are a few specials for your readers:

 Feb 1 CCIE VOICE in New York – $4495 USD (promotional price $2499 USD) Register 30 days earlier

 Review from the previous CCIE Voice in NYC

 CCIE Voice Package – $999 USD

Includes – CCIE Voice Workbook
includes – CCIE Voice Lecture on DVD
includes – CCIE Voice Study Guide
includes – CCIE Voice TroubleShooter (for limited time)

 UC Resource KIT Ultimate Edition – $1299 USD (every person will be eligible to win a Free CCIE VOICE or CCVP Plus Bootcamp).  – over 160 plus Videos of Unified Communication (you know the rest)

New Years News From Narbik!!!!!

Hello All:
Happy  New Years!!!! Narbik sent this note to Eman Conde  letting him know what he is doing and how he is expanding the product line for CCIE candidates.
Eman and Narbik have agreed to help spread this great news here. Enjoy!!!!

Hi All,

 I hope that you all have a peaceful, healthy, and wealthy new year. We saw lots of changes in the routing and switching labs in 2009 and I believe we will see similar changes in the SP, Voice and other tracks as well in 2010. 

 I would like to assure you all that I will continue teaching the tracks like I have been, I just added more material to what I already have in order to make the learning easier and fun.

 I have been extremely busy writing new material, writing material in different tracks, starting my VODs, and God willing soon we will be offering online classes.

 I worked with Maurillio Gorito to tech edit the “CCIE Routing and Switching certification Guide Fourth edition”, an excellent book by Wendell, Rus, and Denise for the written exam.

 I finished the 2500 page 2.0 advanced CCIE R&S.  I’ve worked on the SP work book with Paul Negron (who has tech edited the previous version of the CCIE R&S cert guide and many other Cisco press books).  I’ve worked on the Security work book with Piotr, an extremely knowledgeable person who happens to also be a Dual CCIE (Soon to be Triple).  I have not seen a match when it comes to security. 

 I’ve worked on the Troubleshooting labs with Dan Shechter (a Triple CCIE), what a gentleman, this guy knows his stuff.  I mean he knows it and he knows it well. 

 I am still working on the VODs and online training. 

 Not to mention the fact that I taught 28 boot camps and bunch of custom classes.

 Sometimes when you are this busy, deadlines are NOT met, and sometimes I completed the book; but when I looked at it, I did not care for it, so I deleted the entire thing and started again. Some of my students are getting upset but I WILL NOT SELL CRAP, QUALITY MUST BE THERE or else I will not sell or put my name on it.

 I am also looking into adding other tracks like CCNA (R&S, Security, and Wireless), CCNP, CCVP, and CCSP. But I offer these with world leaders; these are people that rule in this area and have no match. Once negotiations are completed, I will let everyone know who these guys are. If you have done any work in IT, you will know these gentlemen.  

 Starting end of Jan people who attend my boot camp will see a huge change, I have added around 5 hours of additional lecture and I have added the following material to what my students get when they attend my boot camp:

 Foundation – Upon registration, the students will get an E-copy of this work book. This work book will prepare my students for the BOOT CAMP and NOT the actual lab.

 Advanced CCIE R&S 2.0 – This is a 2500 page work book that is technology focused covering every item in the blue print.

 Boot Camp 2.0 – This is a brand new work book that contains mock labs, there is a mock lab for RIPv2, there is a mock lab for Eigrp and so forth. These are tough labs and they convey unbelievable amount of information a MUST have work book.

Troubleshooting 2.0 – Each student gets 2 eight hour troubleshooting labs. These labs are designed to cover the blueprint. You basically load the initial config file which configures the routers and switches for EtherChannel, Trunks, RIPv2, Eigrp, OSPF, BGP, Redistribution, Security, Multicasting, Ip services, IPv6, and etc…… and once the initial configuration is loaded, you will have 15 tickets to resolve. Unbelievable is all I can say about these labs.

 360 Program – These are 2 volume work books plus a lab guide.

 We have added CCIE Service Provider and Security tracks to our schedule and you can see them on our website as of today; we are planning to offer these tracks on monthly basis soon. Remember once you purchase one of the tracks the other tracks will ONLY cost you $1500 each. For example, if you purchased R&S, the SP will cost you $1500, and if later on you decide to take the security track, it will cost you another $1500, as I have stated before, this certification should NOT cost you an arm and a leg. Remember, just because its $1500, the quality WILL NOT SUFFER.

 We have added more racks for our students, and we have made the price affordable, ONLY $450 for the entire month, 24 hours a day for 30 days. 

 One big favor, when ever you attend a boot camp, no matter who the vendor is, be vocal, write about your experience, what happened, what was your expectation going in, and if they met your expectation. This is the best way to keep us vendors honest, if you liked the boot camp, write about it, if you did not like the boot camp you should also write about it.

Many times people attend these boot camps with vendors that have an excellent reputation and they don’t get what they were promised or they paid few thousand dollars for a week of slide shows, they should write about these vendors every where. People read these posts and they decide where to spend their hard earned money.

Don’t worry I have spoken to the owner of GS and other forums and they have absolutely NO problems with true posting of your experience with any product or boot camp.

  I get over 10 e-mails about some of the flame/arguments that goes on in some of the forums and blogs, but my new year’s resolution is to IGNORE them all.

I have made guys famous by getting into arguments with them, I am NOT mentioning any names here but this is the way it’s going to be, I will NOT participate in any of these useless and pointless discussions. I know…..I know….I am NOT being nice, but if you know me, you know that I am a straight shooter, I call it exactly the way it is and some have a problem with that, well……… that is their problem and no one else’s.

Teaching has turned into “lecturing”, chalk talks have turned into “Let me get back to you” or “Let’s check the doc-cd” or the instructor purely uses his/her artistic maneuvering to get out of it. O well………..enough of this and that……

I hope this gave you guys an idea of what’s happening in Micronics Training Inc. I hope to see 5 digits next to your names soon.