Friday, May 16, 2008

ABS Engineer Timur Snoke Achieves Cisco Security TSS

Timur Snoke, a Senior Technology Architect at ABS Technology Architects was officially designated as a Technology Solution Specialist (TSS) for Cisco Security Advanced Technology products yesterday by a review board of Cisco employees. Timur is the only Security TSS in the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Region.


A Technology Solution Specialist is a qualification given to a Cisco Partner Engineers who can expertly explain, demonstrate, & design a technical solution within a particular technology, as well as escalate and facilitate post-sales issues during the implementation phase. A TSS must continue to participate and stay current in their chosen technology to maintain their designation. Cisco created the TSS Program to create awareness within Cisco for the best partner pre-sales engineers, create demand in the customer base for the best partner pre-sales engineers, and recognize partner pre-sales excellence.


Timur Snoke has been with ABS since 2005. He has designed, developed and deployed a variety of Cisco based solutions for customers across industries, including secondary education, higher education, utilities, and corporations. Timur received a Masters degree in Information Security from James Madison University, in conjunction with two NSA approved certificates: Information Systems Security Professionals and Information Systems Security Officers. He and his wife celebrated the birth of their daughter in November 2006, and they live in Roanoke, Virginia.

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