{"id":1977,"date":"2025-01-25T13:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T18:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:33:05","slug":"professional-development-courses-taken-aka-additional-schooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"Professional Development &#8211; Courses Taken aka &#8220;Additional Schooling&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">I have taken the following Professional Development courses since staring my Professional Career in 2005.<br> \u2013 <code>Updated 2025.09.05<\/code> \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2005 \u2013 The Training Camp \u2013 Accelerated Boot Camp to prepare for Cisco CCNA\/CCDA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006 \u2013 H&amp;R Block \u2013 Tax Theory and Return Preparation Training.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010 \u2013 KBZ Communications &#8211; Tandberg \u2013 Authorized Partner Technical Training.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011 \u2013 Meru Certified Technical Installation &amp; Operation Curriculum<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013 \u2013 INE \u2013 CCIE Routing and Switching Written Exam Prep Self Paced Videos<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013 \u2013 INE \u2013 CCIE R&amp;S Lab Preparation Bootcamp V4.5 Self Paced Videos<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015 \u2013 INE \u2013 CCIE R&amp;S Advanced Troubleshooting Self Paced Videos<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015 \u2013 Cloud Harmonics \u2013 Palo Alto PAN-EDU-201 3 Day (Live Training)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015 \u2013 Cisco 360 CCIE R&amp;S Advanced Workshop 1 \u2013 5.0 (CIERS1) (Live)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015 \u2013 Cisco 360 CCIE R&amp;S Advanced Workshop 2 \u2013 5.0 (CIERS2) (Live)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016 \u2013 Ingram Micro &#8211; Cisco ASA Express Security (SAESX V1.5)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016 \u2013 Silver Peak Deploying SDWAN Technologies (SPSP)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017 \u2013 INE &#8211; CCIE Data Center: Written Bootcamp Self Paced Videos<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017 \u2013 INE &#8211; CCIE Data Center: v2 Transition Technologies Course Self Paced Videos<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017 \u2013 INE &#8211; CCIE Data Center: Lab Cram Session Self Paced Videos<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017 \u2013 SecureWorks\u2019 Incident Responders\u2019 Workshop<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018 \u2013 Orhan Ergun &#8211; Service Provider Design Workshop<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018 \u2013 Skyline Advanced Technology Services &#8211; Implementing and Configuring Cisco Identity Services Engine (SISEv2.1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018 \u2013 System Operations on AWS (Live)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019 \u2013 INE &#8211; CCIE Security Written Bootcamp (Live)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019 \u2013 INE &#8211; CCIE Security V5 Advanced Technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019 \u2013INE &#8211;  CCIE Security Lab Bootcamp (Live)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019 \u2013 Orhan Ergun &#8211; Self Paced Layer 2 Network Design Training<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020 \u2013 Orhan Ergun &#8211; Self Paced Network Design Fundamentals Course<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020 \u2013 Orhan Ergun &#8211; Self Paced OSPF Training<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 \u2013 Attended Cisco Live US 2021 (Digital)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 \u2013 Cisco.com &#8211; Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) Training Videos<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 \u2013 Orhan Ergun &#8211; Self Paced BGP Zero to Hero Course<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 \u2013 Mohamed Radwan &#8211; Self Paced CCDE Technology Training Course<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 \u2013 Orhan Ergun &#8211; Self Paced CCDE Training course<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 \u2013 Jeremy Filliben &#8211; Pristine Packets CCDE Training<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 \u2013 Attended Cisco Live US 2023 (Las Vegas)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 \u2013 Cisco U &#8211; Rev Up to Recert: Python<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 \u2013 Cisco U &#8211; Rev Up to Recert: Secure Cloud and Network Analytics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 \u2013 WebRTC SIP design NAT course (Alta 3 Research)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024 \u2013 Ekahau Quick Start Video On-Demand Series<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024 \u2013 Cisco U &#8211; Rev Up to Recert: Programming for Network Engineers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025 \u2013 Cisco U &#8211; Introduction to 802.1X Operations for Cisco Security Professionals (802.1X) 2.0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025 \u2013 Cisco U &#8211; Understanding Cisco SDA Fundamentals (SDAFND) 1.0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025 \u2013 Cisco U &#8211; Securing Cisco Networks with Snort Rule Writing Best Practices (SSFRules)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025 &#8211; Cisco U &#8211; Introduction to Network Simulations with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLLAB) 1.0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025 &#8211; Cisco U &#8211; Administering Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLADM) 1.0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025 &#8211; Cisco U &#8211; Understanding and Deploying Cisco Routed Optical Networking (SPRON) 1.0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025 &#8211; Cisco U &#8211; Network Convergence System 5500 Series Router (NCS5500HW)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there you have it. A (<em>basically full<\/em>) list of Professional Development Courses I have taken over my professional career. Keep learning!<br>\u2013 <code>Updated 2025.09.05<\/code> \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning is a life-long process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,40],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-journey","tag-professional-development"],"rise-blocks_total_comments":0,"rise-blocks_categories":[{"term_id":3,"name":"Tech Stuff","slug":"tech-stuff","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":43,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":43,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Tech Stuff","category_nicename":"tech-stuff","category_parent":0}],"rise-blocks_excerpt":"Learning is a life-long process","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}