Rohan Karamandi

I’ve been working in a proper IT environment, away from a lab for a couple of months now (which is also why I haven’t been posting much). I’ve learnt a lot about myself, and a lot about the way things are run in the real world (as opposed to in the classroom/lab) with real users, in a production environment. It’s a completely different feeling when you know that everything you do can potentially affect a lot of people doing a lot of important things in your corporation.

This is definitely what I want to be doing in the future. Obviously, there are days where everything breaks, but that’s with any job. Currently, I’ve been doing a lot of projects involving security changes, as well as revamping some of our processes to make use of what we have more efficiently.

On my most recent project, which I started a couple of days ago, I’ve been using Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) for hardware and software inventory. This product’s been around for quite a while – formerly being called SMS. We use it for distributing software, and generating reports on who has what, among other things. I’m trying to customize SCCM to hold our inventory information with a variety of things. It seems like an easy enough concept, but I’ve learnt that applying it is more complicated than trying to design a method.

I urge you to check out a more technical blog that my friends started, which I’ll be contributing to. This is more meant to be a place where we keep our notes for ourselves, either through our experiences or referencing other stuff we’ve found online; but hopefully this helps you. http://nerdy-notes.blogspot.com.

On a more personal note, classes are going to be starting up in another couple of weeks. I’m not sure what this fourth/final year is going to hold for me, but I’m definitely looking forward to my CCIE classes/labs and my Capstone Project. Computer Forensics sounds interesting as well!

For everyone starting classes, whether you’re in Elementary school, High school, Apprenticeship, or College/University; I’d like to wish you the best of luck for the upcoming year.

Ciao!