Microsoft Sharepoint Support in Fargo?

[Irish]

BrianGriffin81;179477 wrote:
I understand how a help desk works, I been in this business longer then you imagine. I been in it before ATM, working for various telecom industries. You do not need to explain to me how it works, I know how it SHOULD work, and volt does not do that. If you want a standard tier 1 call, let us go back to this particular example once again, when the question of "What operating system is it?" and they answered SBS 2003, well obviously the guy has not a god damn clue of anything of the innards of it. He should've chucked it on over, perhaps saving maybe an hour or 2 there, then idiot #2 came in, idiot #3, and idiot #4, sure the REMOTE possibility came that #2-4, ASSUMED that something was covered, but that just shows blatant inexperience, anyone in the IT industry, whether your desktop support, helpdesk, admin, IS manager - YOU never EVER assume, you work from the group up. Hell its the foundation of the OSI layer (However practical that is)

I am sure your brother in law, and irish, are fine employees of the company and represent them well. I myself use to work for a company similar to volt back in the telecom days - until I realized, the only way to make money in god blessed America and its capitalistic ways - is to be in business for yourself. Which was the best decision I have ever made in my life.

I don't stand for particular business models and practicies, and volt seems to be following these off not only this experience, but others, I tried finding a .NET developer several months ago, Volt found and sent me 15 candidates, NONE of them worked with it before, ever. How completely idiotic is that? I payed volt great money for there "excellence in service, dedication, and human resource management" what I recieved was just pitiful garbage. I had better luck posting an add on craigslist.org and reading through resumes myself, which takes my valuable time.

I don't like reading resumes, they bore me to death, that is why I attempted to use volt, and several other agencies, so that bad taste of recruiters are left with me never to be shaken from.

First of all let me give you some facts. I worked for volt/vmc for 5 months before being hired on as an FTE at microsoft. I am currently a Tech lead. Our VMC team is considered first line of support and they do a damn good job. On average they escalate less than 3% of cases per period. Volt does an excellent job working on location at MS Fargo. If you want some real information on Sharepoint teams coming to Fargo PM me, I would be more than welcome to help you out. That team has grown vastly with Full time microsoft employees in fargo NOT volt/VMC.

I love how you compared every employee to the ones Volt sent you. Great reading! :icon_scratch:

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BrianGriffin81;179477 wrote:
I tried finding a .NET developer several months ago, Volt found and sent me 15 candidates, NONE of them worked with it before, ever. How completely idiotic is that? I payed volt great money for there "excellence in service, dedication, and human resource management" what I recieved was just pitiful garbage. I had better luck posting an add on craigslist.org and reading through resumes myself, which takes my valuable time.

I don't like reading resumes, they bore me to death, that is why I attempted to use volt, and several other agencies, so that bad taste of recruiters are left with me never to be shaken from.

I'm sure that if you've been in "the business" as long as you're implying that you understand that IT/Technology recruiting stinks in general. I've done a bunch of MS FTE interview loops (out in redmond) and these are all people that have gotten past a phone screen and have been flown to see us on our dime. We still can't hire 80-90% of them. If you can solve the recruiting problem in general, MS will pay you whatever you want to solve it for us Finding good people is hard.. i still get mails from placement agencies asking if I want to work for MS in Redmond

In any case, I don't think it's fair to suggest that Volt is some hive of villany or incompetance based on you assuming stuff about the composition of a support team you had no direct experience with, and of your experience trying to get a "good" candidate referred to you.

As an aside, we all have bad days at work in this field, but typically more seasoned professionals are able to remain on task and constructive even when they're working with less than perfect people or organizations. Your posts have been full of lots of steam and a bit of braggadacio; you never know what guy reading this might be your next client until they put two and two together and decide to take their business elsewhere.

[integra_gsr98]

BrianGriffin81;179469 wrote:
I'm a licensed Cisco dealer, therefore, I must keep my CCIE every 2 years, and as a matter of fact they change these tests quite often; August 15th the exam will be entirely different.

What's your Number?

[BrianGriffin81]

integra_gsr98;179488 wrote:
What's your Number?

Is your phone call referring to the needs of a CCIE? If so, I will give you the number to our dispatcher, and depending on your situation, Jayan (CCIE #18350) will take care of it, if it is voice, and myself on data (CCIE # 18485)

888-412-5546 is our (outsourced) dispatch office

If for whatever reason you need my personal contact information, feel free to PM me and I shall reply - please keep it confidential. Which I find so far, after reading some various threads, will be quite difficult to do.

[integra_gsr98]

Didn't you say you moved back to Minneapolis?

[BrianGriffin81]

integra_gsr98;179493 wrote:
Didn't you say you moved back to Minneapolis?

Correct - that is the number of the dispatch office, that allocates all of our calls. Are we having a misunderstanding here of some sort?

You see, let me explain to you a simple business concept, instead of hiring a monkey to answer phone calls, why not hire a company (that doesn't need to be paid benefits, and on top of that, far cheaper) to dispatch out phone calls, this company also does this for various other companies amongst the north american continent.

Why don't you just call it, and go ahead and give them your information (after collecting your billing information) make sure to ask for a CCIE support, and like magic within 10-15 mins (due to our response time guarentee) one of us will give you a call, as a matter of fact, today is your lucky day - I will be that one.

[integra_gsr98]

So you passed the routing and switching exam?

[BrianGriffin81]

Since were als on topic of, for whatever childish reason, doubting my geographical loaction - if you are a forum moderator, you should be able to take a look at oh say, the last 5 IP's that I've logged on as, and then go to a little known website called http://dnsstuff.com and it will give you all the information you want with their utilities, including a basic trace which should show you the hops I am coming from giving you a rough estimate.

I'm either in Minneapolis, or I got some really really really long fiber out from, Eagan, Plymouth, Downtown, and Bloomington.

[integra_gsr98]

I have no issues with your geographical region except your last IP puts you in Fargo, weird.
Current one seems to be OK though.

When did you pass your CCIE?

[BrianGriffin81]

integra_gsr98;179497 wrote:
So you passed the routing and switching exam?

I'm assuming you mean the 350-001, last time I checked - yep, I did. I just gave you my CCIE #, use your TAC ID and verify for pete's sake.

I don't know what kind of background you have, but after August 15th - CCIE, CCNA, and CCNP (CCDA will be left alone) will be changed dramatically to more alter professional environment, consisting of what the CCIE mainly was (lab environment)

they will be taking a structure, similar to what MS uses - core and supplemental facilities to give greater aveneues, and specialties in particular products.

During your CCIE lab exam, they make you setup whatever network they desire (ATM, now MPLS) could be anything - you do it within the stipulation, bandwidth limitation, etc, of whatever they demand, then they break it. I am absolutely shuddering to see what they will do in any 8500 + Chasis + Sup 720 (seems to be the hot item vendors are pushing) kind of troubleshooting they will expect.

[BrianGriffin81]

integra_gsr98;179500 wrote:
I have no issues with your geographical region except your last IP puts you in Fargo, weird.
Current one seems to be OK though.

When did you pass your CCIE?

Rephrase the question, originally pass my CCIE? Or the most recent time I was recertified?

Originally - 1999

Recertified - 2006

CCIE once again, requires you to do it every 2 years. I am seriously considering not doing it anymore, as I am partnered now and we are streamlining ourselves to be an Aruba partner, my CCIE will be moot point to our vendors.

[integra_gsr98]

So you passed in 1999? What was your original number?

[BrianGriffin81]

integra_gsr98;179503 wrote:
So you passed in 1999? What was your original number?

Christ, is this an interrogation?

Back in 2001 - they changed the way how Cisco professionals were monitored. It use to be a 4 digit number - and when I recertified in 2002 - I was given my current number - also because I was self employed and we were a cisco partner we came on a different standard.

I am sure I could find my ORIGINAL card somewhere, but really? Wouldn't it be far easier for you just to go on, put your TAC in, type my badge, and pull up the information?

Or rather, call the number I gave you, It really is insulting for people to basically, how I say, undermine your experience when I have gone through much in order to attain my status. I have given you the credentials and avenues to verify, please do so and then get back here. Thank you and have a great day.

[integra_gsr98]

CCIE #18485 was ISSUED July 20, 2007. Sorry, try again. It was also issued to Benjamin Hill who took the SECURITY track, and not the Routing and Switching track. Hell, he even used a boot camp to get through the written test.

CCIE numbers do not change. If you were issued a 4 digit number and recert, you reclaim your 4 digit number. They do not recycle them, as they are continually incrementing.

They don't care who you work for, whether you work for a partner, an ISP, a telco, whatever. Your number is assigned in the order the certs are handed out.

[BrianGriffin81]

Please post a screenshot of that, before you spew out nonsense - I think I know my CCIE #

Also, what is your CISCO TAC ID? I want to see how long you been in the industry.

[integra_gsr98]

Nice of you to rejoin Fargostreet Adam Drake.

And for those wondering, I've been around this industry for plenty long.

[Guest]

integra_gsr98;179510 wrote:
Nice of you to rejoin Fargostreet Adam Drake.

And for those wondering, I've been around this industry for plenty long.

I was wondering how long it would take you to post that GSR

[HandoEX]

integra_gsr98;179510 wrote:
Nice of you to rejoin Fargostreet Adam Drake.

And for those wondering, I've been around this industry for plenty long.

Again?

[integra_gsr98]

Well the proof is in the pudding. You don't lie about being a CCIE to someone who is a senior network engineer. I've got the resources to validate any information about any CCIE so that if someone applys for a job and says they are a CCIE I can see if they are lying or not. Cisco will tell me the date they passed, their name, and which track (Security, Routing and Switching, Voice, etc) that they took to get the certification as well.

[DaveH]

integra_gsr98;179550 wrote:
Well the proof is in the pudding. You don't lie about being a CCIE to someone who is a senior network engineer. I've got the resources to validate any information about any CCIE so that if someone applys for a job and says they are a CCIE I can see if they are lying or not. Cisco will tell me the date they passed, their name, and which track (Security, Routing and Switching, Voice, etc) that they took to get the certification as well.

Careful, he might come back and get you with his registered lethal weapons.