Any IT experts out there?

XFactor · Postby **XFactor** » Thu Sep 13, 2018

Looking for anyone currently working in IT. I would like to network with a few people to pick some brains and learn new things.

Brick's · Postby **Brick's** » Thu Sep 13, 2018

Definitely, do not talk to me. I am not your guy.

XFactor · Postby **XFactor** » Thu Sep 13, 2018

Brick's wrote:Definitely, do not talk to me. I am not your guy.

LOL! Thanks for that

everything · Postby **everything** » Thu Sep 20, 2018

Be more specific about what your interested in

MaryB · Postby **MaryB** » Thu Sep 20, 2018

IT covers a lot of different skill sets... programming, networking, security, web design...

XFactor · Postby **XFactor** » Thu Sep 20, 2018

Correct, there are many different facets to IT. I took CCNA along time ago in high school and never did anything with it. Also took some web design classes, never did anything with it. I am currently interested in AWS and am working towards CSAA. Very interested in security and networking.

What are your areas of expertise? I might scroll through this one day and see hey X! I'm a Java programmer or I'm a Azure expert! I would see that and immediately contact you if I had a question at that time on your area of expertise.

silverpv · Postby **silverpv** » Fri Sep 21, 2018

I’m currently workin in aws, Cassandra, and Kafka, among other tech.. mostly cloud native tech now.. feel free to ping me if you have questions.

XFactor · Postby **XFactor** » Fri Sep 21, 2018

silverpv wrote:I’m currently workin in aws, Cassandra, and Kafka, among other tech.. mostly cloud native tech now.. feel free to ping me if you have questions.

Thank You!

Zugzwang · Postby **Zugzwang** » Sat Sep 22, 2018

I am/was a programmer. I wrote my first program in 1979 -- on some kind of Wang with a teletype and paper tape storage. :shock:

About 19 years ago, I learned Oracle SQL and worked with that until last year. I also taught programming fundamentals with Java and Python for about 13 years. Last year I left IT became a user - an inventory manager in a small startup. However, once in IT always in IT, so if anything plugs in and it goes wrong they call me

I tried to explain just because I was a programmer that doesn't mean i can fix a printer :roll:

Prolly TMI.

Zz. :kitty:

jfkwashere · Postby **jfkwashere** » Sat Sep 22, 2018

Hi, I'm John,
I recently retired from a Tech Director job,so had an overview of a lot of networking and user support, Cisco, MS and EMC storage. Lapsed MCSE and some Cisco certs a long time ago.

I got my ham radio license this spring, does that count?

MaryB · Postby **MaryB** » Sat Sep 22, 2018

COBOL, RPG/AS400, java... but it has been to many years since I did any programming

Rik Bitter · Postby **Rik Bitter** » Sat Sep 22, 2018

I don't know exactly what you're looking for. IT is a huge topic. It's kind of like asking about cars instead of a specific model. My background is in Database Archetecture, (OLTP, OLAP, Data Warehousing) and MPP (massively parralel) databases like Teradata, Redshift and Netezza. I can write you a mean SQL query. If those topics are what interests you, I'd be happy to answer some questions.

XFactor · Postby **XFactor** » Sun Sep 23, 2018

Thanks for the replies! If I have a question on something you know ill shoot you a message. I'll be taking my AWS CSAA in a couple weeks. And Rik, ill be contacting you