Author: Zig Zsiga

Zig Zsiga, CCDE™ 2016::32, CCIE™ #44883 has been in the networking industry for 20 years. He is currently a Principal Architect supporting the CX US Public Sector Business and Customers. Zig holds an active CCDE and two CCIE certifications, one in Routing and Switching and the second in Service Provider. Zig also holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from Park University. Zig is a father, a husband, a United States Marine, a gamer, a nerd, a geek and a big soccer fan. Zig loves all technology and can usually be found in the lab learning and teaching others. Zig is a published author now working on his second book, the CCDE OCG. He is the host of the Zigbits Network Design Podcast (ZNDP) where he interviews leading industry experts to talk about network design. All of Zig's content is located at https://zigbits.tech. Zig lives in Upstate New York, USA with his wife, Julie and their son Gunnar.

Einstein Time…You are Time!

Article, Blog, Network Community

Over the last week I have been listening to the book The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks which was a huge suggestion by Cliff Ravenscraft, The Podcast Answerman.  You can find all of Gay’s content on his website at Hendricks.com.  You can find a quick list of Gay’s publications here.  You can check out all of Cliff’s content on his website at Podcastanswerman.com. 

There are a number of huge take away’s from Gay’s book The Big Leap which I will be talking about over the next few months or so as I fully peel back each area within his book to properly implement in my life.

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ZNDP 010 – An overview of the Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) Certification with Jeremy Filliben

Cisco, Consultative Leadership, Demystifying The Roles, Network Community, Network Design, Podcast, ZNDP

I can’t believe we have made it to the tenth episode of this podcast!

We have a special show with a very special guest.  Our Guest has over 20 years of industry experience, he is a network architect, and a trainer of network architects.  He is a well known Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) instructor, training over a thousand networking professionals.  He holds high level certifications from multiple vendors.  He is a personal mentor and friend of mine, please welcome Jeremy Filliben!!

Today’s show is an overview of the Cisco Certified Design Expert Certification (CCDE), lets get started!!

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