From: Joe Rinehart (jjrinehart@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 09 2006 - 16:19:41 GMT-3
Well I AM a presales engineer and have a CCIE...
From personal experience, I think its a great thing to have for a couple
reasons:
1. It creates immediate customer confidence. The title itself still
carries great respect, but of course have to be matched with real expertise.
2. It enables you to have first hand experience with the technology. This
will serve customers well since at times you have to corral people in who
may think the technology will do things it cannot.
3. It enables you to render assistance beyond the presales piece. I am not
suggesting you let yourself get sucked into a big nightmare for free, but
when you can assist and/or give insight at a critical moment it creates huge
dividends with customers.
4. It gives you more options in case the future is not totally presales
forever.
On a side note my more recent career goal is to be a CIO. I think it speaks
a lot when someone at that level of management understands how things fit
together.
Joe Rinehart, Consulting Systems Engineer
CCNP, CCDP, CCIE #14256
World Wide Technology, Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Grey" <examplebrain@hotmail.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:43 PM
Subject: Should presales engenier have CCIE???
> Hello everybody. I have got a question... look the subject
>
> 1) Is it usefull for presales engeneer to have a CCIE??
>
> 2) I have R&S and want to take a Security lab. Thought to study in my
> personal time and money.
> But my manager thinks that one CCIE is much more than eneough, i will not
> have to configure anything for clients just support the sales in company
and
> consult the clients. He thinks that this is even harmfull.
>
> Should I forget about it??
> What do you think??
>
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