Trust is troublesome. It can take a very long time to construct and simply moments to wreck. On an interpersonal degree, it typically includes a bit little bit of give-and-take. But on a private degree, belief is with the ability to imagine in somebody with out hesitation. So, what is belief? For me, it means I do know somebody is telling the reality and their phrase is dependable. Cisco and the individuals who work right here have finished lots to make sure you know we’ve your pursuits at coronary heart. That’s the place our Technical Advocate Team is available in.
You is likely to be questioning what technical advocacy is. Well… it’s what it says on the field: A crew of technical advocates made up of tech professionals who advocate for know-how and the tech neighborhood. We’re the technical neighborhood’s greatest buddy, serving to them undertake know-how and navigate their studying journeys. Read on to find out about what the Tech Advocate Team inside Cisco Learning & Certifications does, who we’re, the place to search out us, and the way we’re targeted on supporting you to go farther in tech.
What does the Tech Advocate Team do?
We technical advocates symbolize our neighborhood, clients, and companions, by ensuring their wants are being communicated and met. It’s about greater than that, although. We additionally see to it that the technical enablement content material we create is efficient and helpful. To be frank, we’re a bunch of nerds who get pleasure from tinkering with tech, and who additionally occur to have the within scoop on all issues tech, studying, and certifications at Cisco. And we’ve the technical chops to evangelise, train, and lead the tech neighborhood to succeed.
Who are the Tech Advocates of Cisco Learning & Certifications?
When you take care of the Learning and Certifications Tech Advocate crew, you’re coping with folks like me—consultants, undoubtedly — however folks who’ve your greatest pursuits in thoughts. This is an efficient time to introduce the members of the Tech Advocate Team, Tony Roman and Jason Belk, and myself. I’ve requested them to let you already know some issues about them in their very own phrases. Keep studying to get to know the folks behind the blogs, webinars, coaching movies, shows, and extra tech studying content material of all types.
Tony Roman, Technical Advocate
I’ve over 20 years of IT expertise, from System Administration to Software Engineering, with a heavy concentrate on DevOps, Automation, and Software Development within the final 10 years.
In latest years, I’ve come to appreciate how a lot I get pleasure from serving to folks study new expertise. There is nothing extra satisfying than serving to folks perceive the know-how that finally helps them of their careers.
Generally, I name myself a maker, with strengths in design, pottery, woodworking, 3D printing, electronics, and mechanical engineering. If it pursuits me, I work to determine it out. All these come collectively to assist my dwelling automation passion (whereas some would possibly take into account it an obsession). I additionally strongly imagine in residing my life with a concentrate on well being, health, and restoration.
You could have seen me on webinars, like this CCNA Ask Me Anything | CCNA Prep Live Webinar, presenting at Cisco Live 2022 Las Vegas, the place I mentioned how IT groups can bridge the hole between software program and infrastructure within the Design Thinking Workshop: Upskilling Your Workforce to Build the IT Team for the Future, or right here on the Cisco Learning Blog — like Git for Network Engineers Series – The Basics.
Jason Belk, Lead Technical Advocate
My space of experience is community automation. I’ve a background engaged on the Cisco IT Network Operations crew in addition to a small consulting start-up, serving to others get began in automation.
I got here to be on the Tech Advocacy Team as a result of I’m passionate about studying, serving to scale back the barrier to entry within the trade, and making the lives of oldsters in IT simpler via training. I understand how arduous it may be to interrupt into IT and need to assist make it simpler for others.
In my private life, I get pleasure from household time with my spouse, our two-year-old daughter, and our black lab, Piper. We like spending time outdoor round Reno since we reside near Lake Tahoe. I additionally play a little bit of Magic the Gathering (the buying and selling card recreation) and have even helped guest-host a podcast on MTG from one of many podcasts I take heed to.
Check out my Ansible webinar sequence on the Cisco Learning Network, in addition to my latest session at Cisco Live 2022 Las Vegas:
Kareem Iskander, Lead Technical Advocate
That’s me! I’ve been working in know-how for 14 or 15 years now. I began my Cisco profession as a software program developer. In truth, I used to be one of many preliminary developer advocates inside DevNet.
Outside of my skilled life, I get pleasure from home-brewing beer and watching soccer (or soccer, should you’re flawed). I’m a Liverpool fan, however I’ll throw on no matter Premier League crew is enjoying. But what does any of this must do with something? The reply is straightforward: Trust.
Together, the three of us act as a voice for you. You can belief that once we go to bat for you, we’re talking as consultants. With greater than half a century of shared expertise between us, we all know easy methods to navigate each tech at giant and the workings of Cisco. Each of us has labored individually to construct ourselves as acknowledged consultants and develop our credibility. Additionally, our skilled lives have introduced us to a spot the place we’re viewing these items from the attitude of the Learning and Certification content material we assist produce.
As Jason stated in his bio, the barrier to entry in tech is excessive. Reducing that barrier is one thing we’re all targeted on as a crew, and dealing with our neighborhood is how we accomplish that objective. If you need to develop in tech, it may be arduous to even determine the place the place to begin is, what you want to accomplish to maneuver on, and what you want to study. Part of how I tackle this downside is by studying the issues I’m asking others to do firsthand. It provides me an understanding of the fabric and an understanding of what college students are going via once they try it themselves. Advocating for a neighborhood is greatest finished if you end up an lively a part of that neighborhood.
Get related and keep within the know
Now that I’ve spoken at size about neighborhood, it’s time to be part of it. We have varied studying communities accessible for no matter certification you’re pursuing, we produce content material for YouTube and webinars, and the members of the Tech Advocate Team are lively on social media.
And along with the Tech Advocate Team, Cisco is filled with different voices you’ll be able to belief. Some of the folks I look to are Yusuf Bhaiji (@YusufBhaiji), Hank Preston (@hfpreston), John Capobianco (@John_Capobianco), and Matt Saunders (@citylifematt). Look out for weblog and neighborhood posts by them and comply with them on social media.
One thing more earlier than you go…
Want to know one in all my favourite issues that I get to do as a senior tech advocate? Snack! Well, Snack Minute, really…
Snack Minute Presented by Cisco U. is a weekly present overlaying buzzy tech subjects—issues like networking, automation, and cloud. I host the present with my colleague, Matt DeNapoli, and we frequently deliver on educated friends to partake in every dialogue. It’s greater than only a dialogue amongst techies, although. We deliver these buzzy tech subjects to life with real-time demos. Every episode is a brand new, distinctive alternative to see us roll up our sleeves and get hands-on with highly effective applied sciences.
And it will get higher. All of this occurs in beneath quarter-hour. It’s a good way to check the waters of latest applied sciences and discover what’s attainable with the fitting expertise. After all, generally you simply desire a style earlier than you decide to the complete meal. It’s an enormous menu.
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Can’t wait? Satisfy your craving to study: Browse latest Snack Minute episodes to search out the right snack now. (While you’re there, subscribe and activate notifications for alerts as new episodes are added.)
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