Mike O'Nan is VP of Networking at Arctiq and President of Safe Harbor Hybrid. He builds AI products, including ScopeIQ.https://onan.io/https://onan.io/creating-a-scholarship-program-my-journey-at-vine-christian-academy/https://onan.io/creating-a-scholarship-program-my-journey-at-vine-christian-academy/Explore the challenges and triumphs of establishing Vine Christian Academy’s scholarship program in my latest blog. Delve into our journey of innovation, community engagement, and the transformative power of education.Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://onan.io/career-path-planning/https://onan.io/career-path-planning/Experience is a funny thing when you’re trying to land an entry-level IT job. Most people separate experience and certification but I like to keep them together.Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://onan.io/do-i-need-a-college-degree-to-work-in-tech/https://onan.io/do-i-need-a-college-degree-to-work-in-tech/I spend some of my free time mentoring people that want to get into the tech industry and this is the number one question for everyone. Do I need a college degree to work in the tech industry?Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://onan.io/how-to-get-a-tech-job-with-no-experience/https://onan.io/how-to-get-a-tech-job-with-no-experience/How do I get experience if no one will hire me? I secretly hate and love this question and my answer is…use the Google! There is SO much information on the internet that is free.Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://onan.io/how-i-passed-all-three-aws-associate-certifications-in-10-days/https://onan.io/how-i-passed-all-three-aws-associate-certifications-in-10-days/To start the only AWS experience I have is some limited exploration before I purchased training material. Through Udemy (now aCloud.Guru) last year I watched the AWS Certified Solutions Architect (CSA) course and tried to multitask while studying.Mon, 30 May 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://onan.io/audio-conferencing-using-tropo/https://onan.io/audio-conferencing-using-tropo/Another thing I really like about Tropo is that it’s absolutely free for developers! Anyone can create an account at Tropo and immediately start testing your ideas.Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://onan.io/audio-conferencing-using-twilio-and-aws/https://onan.io/audio-conferencing-using-twilio-and-aws/I came across a pretty cool solution and thought it would be worth writing a short blog about using Twilio as an audio conferencing solution that utilizes code from an AWS S3 bucket.Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://onan.io/connected-home-iot/https://onan.io/connected-home-iot/I’m going to do something a bit different in this blog I’ll be covering products that consumers can easily purchase to help automate and control their home from anywhere you have a cellular or WiFi connection.Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://onan.io/26-2/https://onan.io/26-2/This is a quick and easy solution to get a VPN going to your AWS cloud. When you create a VPC it gives you two endpoints to peer with. The AWS documentation for VPC states they may take downTue, 27 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://onan.io/ccie-collaboration-training-vendor-reviews/https://onan.io/ccie-collaboration-training-vendor-reviews/**Update 6/12/16** Since iPexpert closed and no products are available from them I would completely disregard that section. INE still has yet to release Collaboration workbooks and only has videos. If you are in the market for CCIE Collaboration training you should definitely go to CollabCert! **End Update 6/12/16** In this post I will discussThu, 08 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://onan.io/bulk-add-translation-patterns-in-cucm/https://onan.io/bulk-add-translation-patterns-in-cucm/I’ve ran across multiple CUCM clusters where recent admins made a translation pattern for everything. When you turn up remote sites it can be very frustrating and time consuming to add a range of DIDs if you add them one by one. Here’s a quick how-to guide on bulk adding these translation patterns in CUCM. ThisWed, 07 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://onan.io/find-did-used-on-external-phone-number-mask-cucm/https://onan.io/find-did-used-on-external-phone-number-mask-cucm/Ever keep track of your DIDs in a spreadsheet? Not sure if that pesky help desk marked one as being used? Here’s a helpful command to see if one has been put in the ”External Phone Number Mask” field on a device in CUCM. SSH to the publisher and run this command: run sql selectWed, 07 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://onan.io/how-to-find-users-dialing-911-on-cucm/https://onan.io/how-to-find-users-dialing-911-on-cucm/I find it amazing how people will call 911 and when the operator picks up they just hang up the phone. The police show up to make sure everything is okay and after a few trips to the same location for false alarm they start to get frustrated and talk about giving fines. I foundWed, 07 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT