I was wondering if anyone here is involved with BICSI, employs people based on their membership/training or knows anyone who does. It has to do with communications cabling, infrastructure, safety, installation practices, network/phone, A/V (mainly commercial and industrial) etc.
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I'm not real sure what information you're looking for, but if you haven't already done so, visit their website, bicsi.org. Note that it's BICSI, not BISCI.
They are the primary certifier of anything relating to telecomm certification, and offer several levels of certifications (Installer 1, Installer 2, etc) and their premier certification is an RCDD, a system designer. This certification is required for many of the commercial telecomm installations we bid on, and are required to design systems, oversee the installations and supervise/certify the testing. It's a rather rigourous test, I understand, and people who have it are in pretty high demand. In Alaska, it's nearly impossible to find an independent RCDD to certify a project.
Pretty much every communications system company has an RCDD on staff.
Most telecomm equipment manufacturers (Leviton, Avaya, and others) offer training on their products that include a certain number of continuing education credits toward BICSI certification.
Reddog
Yeah, I spazzed when I typed it. I talked to one of the people in their training department but wanted to check in with people in the industry to see if becoming a member would make me more marketable. I think it's time to add this to my pack of certificates and go see my brother (there's a training/test in his city in a little over a month).Could a moderator correct the spelling in the title to BICSI, please?"I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."
Edited 10/31/2006 5:38 pm by highfigh
If you haven't already looked on their site, check out the pre-requisites for each of their different certifications. I'm a little hazy on this, but if I remember correctly, you can't just jump to the top level without showing some experience in lower levels.
Reddog
They have the100 level test (approx. 1.5 years exp), 200 level (approx. 5 years) and the 300 level, which is basically technician instead of installer. Then, they have other courses for design, fiber, etc. Even with more years of experience, there's still areas of their courses that someone won't necessarily have experience in so I'm going to knock out the first and second ones soon and get into the fiber course ASAP.
"I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."