From: Schulz, Dave (DSchulz@dpsciences.com)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2006 - 14:20:05 GMT-3
This is an interesting post....more of a career choice. I agree with the post
that stated as once you become a CIO, you will end up letting your CCIE to
expire. This would be due to the CIO being a manager at the C-level, rather
than a technical resource. Actually, it would seem that a CCIE would be a CTO
(Chief Technical Officier) as a move up the ladder. I made a similar move in
the mid-90s....having taken the CCIE written back in then, I took the
management road and have now since picked up the "tool box" again in the last
couple years. (It is a matter of passion....you never really take the
technical desire out of the engineer, I guess). I can say that being a really
good engineer and a really good manager are difficult things to balance (you
are doing two different jobs). Not impossible, but difficult. Most folks do
one better than the other. Hope this helps. And, really good managers (like
really good CCIEs) are hard find and in demand.
Dave
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com on behalf of David Lee
Sent: Fri 3/17/2006 12:01 PM
To: Joe Rinehart; 'Babylon By The Bay'
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: CIO and CCIE
Hi Joe,
This is what I know. Being as virtual CIO for many
companies at the same time or we called it as a
consultant CIO. You can earn alot more as compared to
working for just one fortune 1000 company.
Dave,
Network Engineer
http://www.ccie2be.com
--- Joe Rinehart <jjrinehart@comcast.net> wrote:
> I have noticed a significant preponderance with
> consulting in a CIO role...
> One of my former customers was a large company in
> which I got to interact
> with the CIO and last year I had several executive
> interactions that made me
> start to think about this...all of those folks had
> done consulting...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Lee [mailto:a07146@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 8:31 AM
> To: Babylon By The Bay; Joe Rinehart
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: CIO and CCIE
>
> MBA is a MUST if you want to undestand how top
> management people talk in $ & #.
>
> GMAT is not difficult compare to CCIE Lab. So having
> both definitely will get you CIO position soon or
> later. Even better, if you have your own consulting
> firm.
>
> Dave,
> Network Engineer
> http://www.ccie2be.com
>
>
> --- Babylon By The Bay <tech-lists@rexglobal.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I tend to agree!!!
> >
> > I'm looking at doing the same myself. As I'm now
> > pushing 40 there seems to
> > be a yearning within me to make the next big step
> > into the upper echelon of
> > the food chain. The only real way to do this
> within
> > the global 1000 is to
> > have a solid B-School to back it up with.
> >
> > I'm considering: London Business School (LBS) and
> > INSEAD, but we'll see as
> > I'm still in prep mode for GMAT.
> >
> > I've been following some MBA bloggers and there's
> a
> > wealth of information
> > there. From daily life to classes and getting your
> > foot in the door. CHECK
> > IT OUT...
> >
> > mbaleague.blogspot.com
> >
> > Good luck...
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joe Rinehart" <jjrinehart@comcast.net>
> > To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 7:59 AM
> > Subject: CIO and CCIE
> >
> >
> > > Weird off topic question but wanted group input.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Definitely value the CCIE after clawing my way
> to
> > it in 2004 (deep in my
> > > recert studies at the moment in fact) and love
> the
> > technical piece of
> > > that.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Having scaled that mountain I am now working on
> an
> > MBA with a career goal
> > > of
> > > becoming a CIO.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > My personal opinion is that having both the
> > business (MBA) and technical
> > > (CCIE) background is a unique and killer
> > combination for a role like that.
> > > What are YOUR thoughts? Benefit, drawback, or
> > neither?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Joe Rinehart, Consulting Systems Engineer
> > >
> > > CCNP, CCDP, CCIE #14256
> > >
> > > World Wide Technology, Inc.
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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