Re: * The Man:
> Despite his technical wizardry, The Tech is not a formally trained computer engineer.
In a large IT department, I once had to go around and get what qualifications and certifications everybody had.
If we ignore qualifications in obsolete technology, the honest answer was "practically none", by which I mean 2 qualifications in something like 70 staff, one of which was a CCNA and one person with a degree in IT. The person with the degree was (and I say this as the line manager whom was allocating jobs) arguably the least productive person in the department.
There is a crying need in the modern economy for certifying self taught people have particular skills at an affordable price, without doing an irrelevant training course with a several thousand pound bill.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
