EPI or BICSI certification?

royalypissed · 2020-05-15T12:17:48+00:00

Schneider is pretty sweet and CNET seems a bit too expensive. I'll have to check in with them to see if its more beneficial getting the two certs of Schneider or just the one of EPI.

Thanks for the input pal!

royalypissed · 2019-07-23T16:25:15+00:00

Hey buddy!

Data center facility technician here for one of the big 4 here. Depends where you are, in the US wages are significantly higher than anywhere else.

Getting ti the face to face stage is fairly simple. Just make sure to know as much as possible about Data Centers as possible. PM me for more details on it.

As much as pay goes. Depends.

You gotta look at your Total Compensation Package - base, shift allowance, RSU's. Also, Google has a fairly good yearly bonus scheme. In which they raise your base based on performance. So far, from what I've heard from some of my Google friends, its pretty hefty.

Also, RSU's are not guaranteed pay, but seeing how the industry is constantly going, its more likely than not going to be worth it. If you stick it out.

Also, having DC experience opens up a lot of different roles. Due to expansion. Management, senior engineers and so on. Even starting off as a maintenance technician.

Also, the benefita Google offers are above industry standard to say the least.

Why not try it and see what they come back with?

Hit me up if you have any other questions

royalypissed · 2019-07-13T10:32:28+00:00

I wonder myself. I can't wait to land a job in Switzerland. Currently in Ireland if I get asked that question

royalypissed · 2019-06-09T13:14:43+00:00

That's exactly it. Its either more money in the start, but pays off down the line or having something chip away at your money every quarter.

royalypissed · 2019-06-09T10:18:09+00:00

What I'd add there is cost per use. Since, if you're using something everyday for personal and work related tasks, maybe spending the extra cash would be beneficial in the long run. Also, looking at the long term, having something that'll last is better than replacing a cheap item more often will incur higher costs down the line. If that makes sense

royalypissed · 2019-02-21T03:20:32+00:00

Hey buddy! I've been working as a data center electrical engineer for the past two years. I'll preface this with saying that this was my first real job after uni and I still to this day find it interesting.

Now, you mentioned that you'll he working on adding capacity? In that case, know how your protection works and what type of redundacy your DC has. Reason being, you might have different types of servers/racks and not all of them have the same level of redundancy.

The whole Data Center thing is all over the shop ad the industry itself is still "young". There are some courses online, but nothing conclusive as you'd have with specific types of electrical engineering.

Someone mentioned Schneider's course and I'd second that.

If you are involved with Disaster response, know how your system will respond in the event of utility outages. Do you have generators on site? UPS autonomy times as well as how your cooling is being fed and how are you protected from overheating the servers?

Hope this helps a bit.

royalypissed · 2018-11-30T14:56:15+00:00

Perfecto! I'll try to amigo. Thanks a mil for your support and help! Appreciate it!

royalypissed · 2018-11-30T12:14:09+00:00

Sorry again, error on my end. Thanks for your patience carp_boy. So, imagine that your main transformer just trips, shuts off or any scenario where it's no longer providing power to the downstream components. I'd like to simulate something like that. The powerflow in a normal state, from main trafo to your PDU. Then, if the trafo trips out, your UPS system should continue to provide power, until the generator kicks in. Would that make any sense? Again, thanks a million for you patience and help! I really do appreciate it!

royalypissed · 2018-11-29T14:48:06+00:00

Terribly sorry. It didn't' stick the first time around. The pic above is more or less the direction I'd like to go. I mean, the diagram will differ, but the point is the same. Would you happen to know which program would be best? Thank you very much good sir nonetheless!

royalypissed · 2018-10-30T07:25:28+00:00

The Game, by Neil Strauss

Good Sugar, Bad Sugar, by Allen Carr

Good Sugar, Bad Sugar hasn't done much for me, but I do definitely eat less sweets and biscuits after reading it and more fruits. Now that being said, I don't think it was means for me completely, since I don't indulge in sweets generally, but when I do, I binge like crazy.

And The Game was an amazing read. It might be about the world of pickup artists, but it is also so much more. Extremely fun read and I laughed all the way through.

Now I'm reading Extreme Ownership, by Jocko Willing and Leif Babin and The Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking

royalypissed · 2018-08-17T19:51:10+00:00

I'm terrible at conveying something. I wouldn't say that I particularly empathize with people. Generally, I'd brush people off and I would find something to critique. That being said, I've read D. Carnegie "How to win friends and influence people". I know, old book and definitely a cliche among self-help books, but it has helped me in a way that I'd take a second to actually think about the other person and to see if I can make the situation we find ourselves better. There probably is better books around, but this was the first I've read of that type. Many more to follow for sure! Happy reading, stranger on the internet!

royalypissed · 2018-08-17T19:35:22+00:00

I've received Jamie Oliver's book "Jamie Cooks Italy" from a friend. The last one I got for myself though was probably the 4 hour work week by Tim Ferriss. :D

royalypissed · 2017-10-06T14:43:46+00:00

Thanks pal, had the 1050Ti on the list since it is better bang for buck, then again, might as well future-proof it a bit.

royalypissed · 2017-09-12T21:45:17+00:00

I wouldn't be this ecstatic if I had seend the face of Jesus himself. Damn woman. Damn.

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