Certification Magazine - November 2007 - (Page 27)

ture and going from one to two data centers, as well as four Web servers to two farms of eight Web servers. “Typically, at least for the past few months here, I tend to work regular eight- to nine-hour days, then I’ll go home, and I’ll see my family until they go to bed, and then I’ll work another three or four hours at night and then come up and do it all over again the next day,” Tosi said. Where Marketing and Development Meet Tosi earned a bachelor’s degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology before quitting an MBA program a year in because he didn’t think it was going to get him anywhere. He got his start in IT doing Java consulting, then he briefly worked for a start-up dotcom in 2000. From there, he went to a software company, doing Java and Web development for about a year before moving to CME, where he’s been for the last five years. Before coming onboard at CME, Tosi earned his Sun Certified Programmer & Developer for Java certification during the first round of certification to be done for Java. Since then, Tosi has earned no fur- ther certifications — he said that in his job role, he takes on so many different technologies that he can’t certify in every one he uses. “It wouldn’t really be feasible for me to get certified in 100 different technologies,” Tosi said. “I just need to know them well enough to know when it’s right and when it’s wrong.” A typical day for Tosi while CME has been building its new Web site illustrates why a webmaster must be all things to all people in a given organization. “My day consists of two distinct sides,” Tosi said. “One is meeting with the business side, meeting with the marketing department and the people who will be driving what needs to be done to make sure we address all of their needs and requirements. The other side is meeting with my developers to make sure we are putting a framework together that will meet these requirements.“ “So, it’s pretty much split right down the middle, getting the requirements and then actually doing the architecture to get things ready to go.” November 2007 CERTIFICATION MAGAZINE 27

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Certification Magazine - November 2007

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