[SASAG] Training for Industry needs and standards.

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Agree Ski creating an open source focused vendor neutral program is hard
work though not impossible.

I did just that over the last few years, created Cloud Genius
https://be.a.cloudgeni.us/get-certified, licensed it to a couple academic
institutions http://www.lwtech.edu/ce/cloudgenius and
http://niu.edu/springboard/Cloud_Genius/ and got recognized as one of the
top 10 vendor neutral cloud programs by the CIO magazine. Also, got great
recognition by US military in helping returning soldiers land dream jobs in
tech industry. I routinely train employees of Boeing, Expedia, Microsoft,
AT&T and other local companies with a focus on the customer, while shaping
core skills with open source.

Obtaining core skills + some skills around popular open source products is
a way to accomplish competitive edge today.  I would love to offer help to
people looking to develop core skills in association with SASAG.
ᐧ

Nilesh Londhe
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https://be.a.cloudgeni.us
https://linkedin.com/in/londhe
nilesh at cloudgeni.us
425-223-3474

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Ski Kacoroski <kacoroski at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jesse,
>
> I am on the BC advisory board and teach there.  The main issue that we are
> running into at BC is that new courses are very difficult to create from
> scratch so they end up using Cisco, VMware, and Microsoft courses.  Ideally
> they would love to create courses from scratch that are platform
> independent to teach stuff like configuration management, scripting,
> automation, virtualization, storage, networking, etc. but practically this
> is impossible.
>
> I am having some luck pushing them to add in more non-microsoft, non-cisco
> centric courses as many of the jobs these days are with service providers
> based on linux, openswitch, etc.  I would point out to the committee that
> many of the system admin jobs require open source technologies and they
> need to add them into more than one course.  Also they should focus a lot
> more on scripting so that students when they graduate can write and debug
> scripts in powershell and bash (at a minimum) and preferably one other
> language like python or perl.
>
> cheers,
>
> ski
>
>
> On 05/20/2015 06:29 AM, jesse.f.moore at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hello SASAG Friends,
>>
>> **YOUR EXPERT KNOWLEDGE of what Industry training is NEEDED***
>>
>> I have recently become a student member of the Edmonds Community
>> College’s CIS (Computer Information Systems) Advisory board.
>>
>> It's come to my attention that EdmondsCC (EdCC) could use help
>> in receiving feedback from us about technologies we are
>> currently/previously used so EdCC could either update an existing class
>> like a Cisco Class to include such tech as OpenSwitch or add a
>> certificate class for Puppet configuration.
>>
>> I would appreciate it if you could take a minute to respond with what
>> technologies (and job role) you are working with that would be great to
>> have taught in a class rather than self-taught or on the job experience.
>>
>> I will start the conversation with the below that I am familiar with as
>> a Linux Admin/Engineer role:
>>
>> Python, Perl, and curl, for scripting
>>
>> CFEngine (lots of company still have this because it’s been around so
>> long), Puppet (this is the new hotness), and Jenkins for configuration
>> management.
>>
>> OpenSwitch for virtual switches also VMware virtual networking is on the
>> rise at companies that have VMware.
>>
>> VMware – Setup & configure vCenter for a virtual environment along with
>> using vSphere to manage day to day admin/user tasks.
>>
>> Monitoring tools such as: Solarwinds (used mostly for Networks teams to
>> monitor network gear), Zenoss (Nintendo uses this for their entire
>> computer infrastructure), Nagios (this is older tech, but still used),
>> and VROPS (VMware’s monitoring solution).
>>
>> Thank you for your time and info!!
>>
>> Hopefully this will generate some new certificate courses or update
>> existing ones based on your comments!!! [image: 😊]
>>
>> Have a great week ahead and see you at the next SASAG meeting!
>> -Jesse Moore
>> 425-628-9070
>> (UW Medicine ITS)
>>
>>
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>
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