Team Climbing

Team Climbing
Ascent

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Meet the Team

Asen Petrov, MCITP: Enterprise Administrator
Windows Deep Technical Support
Best Shore ITO DO Bulgaria Center
HP Enterprise Services



Tyson Leslie: Enterprise Architect
Information Management - Strategy and Architecture
WorleyParsons
http://www.worleyparsons.com


Hiddo de Vreeze:MCITP: Enterprise Administrator,
CEO Asapnet Network Solutions.
The Netherlands


Manny Sandhu: Microsoft PFE based out of Canada since Oct 06
Primary focus is AD


Chris Yu
Premier Field Engineer
GCR South Premier Field Engineering
Microsoft Services

Ambers Ferrara


Brandon Wray


Martin Solis

Matthew Tisdale


Michael Koeppl


Simon Winterborn


Jun Yao
Microsoft PFE in China since 2010 Aug. 
Specialties are AD, Debugging, Networking, Virtualization and System Center products


Mark Wilson
Senior Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft


James Carrion, MCITP: Enterprise Administrator, Microsoft Certified Trainer
Mountain View Systems, LLC.
Fort Collins, Colorado



Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Microsoft Certified Master - The Journey Begins

On April 4, I begin the ascent to achieving Microsoft's most coveted professional technical certification - the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) designation. I chose the Active Directory Server 2008 R2 MCM but other MCM offerings include Exchange Server 2010, Sharepoint Server 2010, Lync and SQL 2008.

The MCM program is not for the feint of heart - not only do you have to meet the stringent prerequisites as defined here, but once accepted, there are also significant pre-reading requirements. For the AD R2 program, this is a 4 page list of technical articles comprising some 3000 pages of techno-grizzle to digest before you even take the first step to the summit.

Base camp is Microsoft Campus, Building 40 in Redmond, Washington where 13 fellow climbers and I will attempt the ascent together. They are already experienced Active Directory administrators and architects from all over the world: China, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the United States. This is not an individual journey but a team effort and our goal is for all 14 of us to stand together on the summit and celebrate our success. It won't be easy and it will tax our limits - so wish us luck as we begin our journey together and keep track of our progress along the way.

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IT Security Manager by day - cyber researcher by night. Tired of being a passive sheep as cyber wars rage. It is time to take the fight to the enemy - within the constraints of the law of course! I am a super fan of all things cyber security! You can find me on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-carrion-2805767/

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