Introduce yourself to Red Hat Academy!

[Deanna]

Welcome to the Red Hat Academy group! As we build a discussion area dedicated to collaborative, open source learning with Red Hat Academy, let's get to know more about each other. Reply to this post with details about yourself, your background,  the skills you want to develop (or have developed ), career stories, favorite Red Hat courses, fun facts and anything else you may want to share with your fellow Red Hat Academy community members!

[RLS_Kansas]

Rodney Stanfield here.

Manhattan Area Technical College, Manhattan KS USA

Lead Instructor for the Information and Networking Technology program.

We teach the 124 and 134 courses in our program

[Trevor]

Hello Rodney,

Welcome!!!

[sdea2900]

Good morning Rodney,

My name is Shane Archibald and I am a Cybersecurity Instructor at Gwinnett Technical College in Lawrenceville, GA.. Quick question. How do you promote Red Hat to your students? Thank you for your time and I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Shane Archibald

[waldonhendricks]

Waldon Hendricks from Cape Town Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Academic IT lecturer for the Information Technology Department

I  teach to the 2nd and 3rd years the RH124 and DO180 courses as part of Elective subjects.

[moDafro]

I'm Mohamed Eldefrawy from Alexandria,Egypt

Preparing for RH124 Exam 

nice to meet you all

[Vinodj80211]

Hello everyone! My name is Vinod Jadhav and I'm working as Network consulting engineer in one of the MNC. I have been in networking field from past 15 yrs. I am interested in learning automation in networking field and i feel RHCSA will be my first step to start journey. I am new in Linux world. I would love to learn more about what Red Hat courses are.

[JG_Kootstra]

Hello everyone,

My name is Jan Gerrit Kootstra, I am a DevOps engineer and System Administrator at the Dutch Telco called KPN. I am a MSc in (Applied) Mathematics.

I started using Red Hat products since Red Hat 6, got my first RHCE on Red Hat 9, kept it until RHEL 5, since than I kept my RHCSA.

Regards,

Jan Gerrit

[sdea2900]

Good morning Jan,

Welcome to the Red Hat Learning Community. Quick question. Once you became RHCSA certified, was it a "game changer" for your career? Also, was that the same premise once you obtained your RHCE? I am in the process of preparnig for the RHCSA certitfication and I would like to have your insight. Thank you for your time  and I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Shane Archibald 

[JG_Kootstra]

Good day @sdea2900 ,

In early 2000's there was not RHSCA, so to me it was a bommer not being able to maintain the RHCE level.

It was not a great "game changer" as I worked already for 5 years in the IT before I got my Red Hat Certifications. I already had a HP-UX certificate.

Once I had the ambition to become a RHCA, as that failed due to budget, I got more and more into Red Hat Accreditations as that was more benificial for my employer.

Regards,

Jan Gerrit

P.S. I am member of the community since 2019, but missed this subject.

[HeshanD]

Hello Hatters,

My name is Heshan Dharmasena, from Sri Lanka. I am Red hat Certified Architect Level 2 and Red hat Certified Instructor. I am delivering RHCSA and RHCE for more than 5 years of time. I started my Red Hat journey in mid of 2015 and within 1 1/2 years gained RHCA. I am working as Linux/DevOps/Cloud Engineer in Sri Lanka and worked for multiple different organizations. 

My passion is into Linux/DevOps and Cloud. Also I would like to train and mentor people. I am happy to join this community as a learner to learn from everyone here.

Welcome onboard me.