How many of you are professional techies/work with tech?

[0ld_Chicken]

7 minutes ago, ZachBrownfield said:

Do you deal with Trane equipment much or do you do more residential stuff? Some of that commercial stuff gets pretty technical. 

I do 99% residential work, Carrier and Waterfurnace mostly although I used to work for a Trane dealer, residential still.  I do get to do a LOT of geothermal work, which is awesome because I love watercooling PC's and Geothermal is really similar in a lot of ways.  We do a lot of really high end homes, so a lot of control/zoning, multi-stage units, multiple units per home and wiring can get a bit crazy but its a blast and very simple once you know how it goes.  Oh and we do hydronics too so I've done a decent amount of plumbing for that as well as integrating it into existing/new geothermal units.  There is definitely a ton of knowledge necessary to be good at the job, but it's definitely not a computer job.

[RatedBlam]

Nah, tech is just an expensive hobby of mine.

I'm working as a postman while I figure out what I want to study.

[XenosTech]

I work for a systems integrator

[Bigbootyjudy]

I just know stuff and don't actually have a job(I haven't even built a computer if you don't count replacing a core 2 duo in an old dell). I just find everything on the forums interesting and it gives me something to do besides school.

[2FA]

I'm going to school for network security and am currently a part time asst. network admin.

[ZachBrownfield]

26 minutes ago, 0ld_Chicken said:

I do 99% residential work, Carrier and Waterfurnace mostly although I used to work for a Trane dealer, residential still.  I do get to do a LOT of geothermal work, which is awesome because I love watercooling PC's and Geothermal is really similar in a lot of ways.  We do a lot of really high end homes, so a lot of control/zoning, multi-stage units, multiple units per home and wiring can get a bit crazy but its a blast and very simple once you know how it goes.  Oh and we do hydronics too so I've done a decent amount of plumbing for that as well as integrating it into existing/new geothermal units.  There is definitely a ton of knowledge necessary to be good at the job, but it's definitely not a computer job.

 

Sounds great. I've always been curious about geothermal. I think it may have serious potential on Mars. 

[Okjoek]

Combination of 3 and 5.

[Lurick]

Yup, I work as a Solution Validations engineer for a large networking company. I get to try and break networking equipment and software pretty much on a daily basis and then tell people to fix it and let customers know if the solution works or not and not get chewed out by them.

 

In my spare time I spend time messing with computers, servers, networking gear, and random gadgets and whatnot. I love making things work and seeing what it takes to make it tick.

[ZachBrownfield]

17 hours ago, Lurick said:

Yup, I work as a Solution Validations engineer for a large networking company. I get to try and break networking equipment and software pretty much on a daily basis and then tell people to fix it and let customers know if the solution works or not and not get chewed out by them.

 

In my spare time I spend time messing with computers, servers, networking gear, and random gadgets and whatnot. I love making things work and seeing what it takes to make it tick.

 

Sounds cool, are you involved in the research of finding devices vulnerable to all the recent botnets? 

[Lurick]

Just now, ZachBrownfield said:

Sounds cool, are you involved in the research of finding devices vulnerable to all the recent botnets? 

No, we do test for vulnerabilities in software but I mainly focus on data center technologies which tend to have a little less focus on fuzz testing and more on just throughput, latency, and other aspects along those lines. There is a whole group though that works on mitigating botnets and other vulnerabilities though and I might apply to that group in the future.

[Godlygamer23]

I don't work in the consumer or commercial tech world. I work in the military tech world in the Quality department.

[ZachBrownfield]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

No, we do test for vulnerabilities in software but I mainly focus on data center technologies which tend to have a little less focus on fuzz testing and more on just throughput, latency, and other aspects along those lines. There is a whole group though that works on mitigating botnets and other vulnerabilities though and I might apply to that group in the future.

 

Do you test a lot of Ubiquiti gear? I use their products at work for the most part. If you do transfer it would be cool to pick your brain after doing it for a while. 

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, ZachBrownfield said:

Do you test a lot of Ubiquiti gear? I use their products at work for the most part. If you do transfer it would be cool to pick your brain after doing it for a while. 

No, only Cisco gear since that's who I work for

I've done work on the ASA in the past but haven't dug too deep into that, mostly just performance testing. Although my current customer is looking to ramp up security testing so that will likely change, which is going to be fun.

[ZachBrownfield]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

No, only Cisco gear since that's who I work for

I've done work on the ASA in the past but haven't dug too deep into that, mostly just performance testing. Although my current customer is looking to ramp up security testing so that will likely change, which is going to be fun.

 

That makes sense. Although I could see large companies benchmarking their gear against competitors. 

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, ZachBrownfield said:

That makes sense. Although I could see large companies benchmarking their gear against competitors. 

Yah, we've had a few of those engagements in the past. The customer will have to get a resource from the competitor and we'll give them access to a DMZ to do their testing on their gear and we'll do testing on our gear.

[csanders]

AV/IT specialist for a college.  Basically I act as an AV integrator with only one client, the school.

[MatazaNZ]

I work as decommission and installation at a company that specialises in IT procurement and service. Basically we are the middleman between local universities and lease companies. We perform all services required for said leased hardware, and they pay for it. Even though they have their own IT staff, most things are done by our on-site representatives and techs. It's quite interesting. Tech is also a hobby at home, but one that I rarely have the money for. My latest project is a home server. Can't even afford a motherboard right now. (although, I *am* looking at a supermicro board, so it's a little pricey)