Jorge
Arredondo

I'm Jorge Arredondo. I love to see how technology, whether is a simple transatlantic Video-Chat with your partner, thinking about Electric Self-Driving Cars or just a simple micro piece of hardware inserted into your body, can make us tremendously productive. It is the Mystery of where and how the technology is guiding us that Indeed Fascinates Me!.

Besides fascination, I have an odd attachment to learn and share knowledge within the ecosystem I belong to, addressing that Knowledge can even be my communication language among the members around. I think the Internet helped us little by little to create a flat world since late 1990's till now. I mean, globalize one and only one ecosystem with the same likes, with the same taste, with the same all in one powerful learning source and sharing information source. Therefore, I think data is clearly the new oil and has to be treated, absorbed and digested properly.

Well, well... After I described the love I have towards the Internet (Networking) and the importance Data in a nutshell, I will talk a bit about my Professional Background.

So far I have over 13+ years of overall IT experience working in different Industries such as ISP services, Manufacturer services, Health Care services and Banking Finances services. I could say that improving my personal leadership, constant IT development & pushing myself to rotate in different Industries, has been the most powerful troubleshooting life toolkit I've ever applied. Is interesting to see and understand how different business and Industries align their IT department work and effort based on their specific dependencies and necessities. In the end, IT is going to be the backbone in any Industry Business Model. I want to be clarifying that getting stuck in one Industry forever can also be such an amazing experience getting an exceptional learning curve. Perspectives may differ I guess.

Gracefully changing the Subject, the truth is that lately the Software Defined Networking, trend turned me crazy! In a good way. I mean, I have been falling in love with the "new" decoupled Control Plane, Northbound, Southbound and the coolest flexibility with the application layer making the Networking behave quite unimaginable and scalable adding cool features such as Analytics, flexibility, less complexity, Automation, etc neat KPIs in general. I think NFV, SDN, Network Automation, Network Programability, Public-Private Cloud flexibility, Data Science, Big Data, Machine Learning, etc, will be the main key differentiator for any service Industry in the upcoming decade and believe it or not, as an IT engineer, you are going to find joy deploying and programming it (Pythonize it)!.

Speaking about cool stuff, I have been putting quite some time gathering valuable info experience to set up properly my own metrics and my professional KPIs. Is not easy at all as it seems to be. That's why I fragmented down below my top 6 IT KPIs measured since the experience I got in early 2006 until the current year 2021. Obviously, these values are not perfect. Are roughly calculated as you can tell, but I tried hard to bring you the closest percentages. FYI, my highest 98% comes from my justified CCIE Routing Switching & Enterprise Infrastructure abilities moving all the way down to Automation, Network Programmability, SDN, Python, NFV, Multicloud experience, ITIL, ITSM Frameworks and other Interesting IT KPIs...