TN category???? Please help.....

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My last post did not receive much interest:( and I can only hope some helpful soul can enlighten me this time around.:) This what I had posted last time:

http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=246945&highlight=cisco

I have a BSEE degree from US and then 10+ year experience in System/Network administration. My current job title is Senior Systems Adminitrator for a company in Toronto. I am responsible for maintaining and enhancing company's data center. What basically this means is that I am part of a team that is responsible for maintaining and upgrading server hardware/operating system and network equipment connecting the company's LAN and WAN. The involves designing technical architecture (server/os/networ/security) that would support various overlaying applications and databases. The job also involves maintaining existing instrastructure (server farm, stroage area network, backup etc) and network (wan connectivity, firewall rules, vpn etc..)

I am focusing my job search primarily in network side of things where I will be maintaining LAN and WAN using primarily Cisco routers and switches. I have Cisco's CCNP and various other certifications.

Now my future job titles could be Network Engineer, Network Analyst, Network Infrastructure Architect, Systems Engineer/Administrator.

I do work in a team of peers and junior staff but not with an Engineers (Electrical/Mechanical with a P.E. license). I do not manage people but do work on projects and at times have been project technical team lead.

The BSEE program that I did had no computer courses. Hmmmm.. I would not classify Engineering Design with CAD/CAM as computer course.

Is it even prudent for me to see myself as TN candidate or not? If yes what would be my best bet for NAFTA job category. I have been searching an answer for quite sometime but haven't got a definitive answer.

Please help. Thanks in advance.
 
sounds to me like the definition of a Computer Systems Analyst

EDIT: nevermind, saw your original post
 
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Thanks for your replies folks.

All three of you have three different anwsers. That makes me even more worried.

Mushy: Is Business System Analyst (Network Analyst) category on the ONET list? or is it valid sub-category of CSA? Can a person with Engineering degree qualify for this category or is it only for CS degree holders?
Simsd: But Scientific Tech require a supervisor who is an Engineer and in most of IT shops this is not the case.

Please help me folks. Thanks.
 
Not supervises, but in support of an engineer. Let's say "Joe" has an engineering degree and is part of the "team" or "department" you work for. Joe needs you to do some things for him - that's supporting an engineer.

We actually don't have an engineer on staff, but we deal with them every day in the outside world. We even had an RFE sent us once asking us that exact question and we answered it truthfully - and have never had a problem since.

I just looked at your background again. You have a BSEE which is probably what got you into this field to begin with. You probably needed the BSEE background to understand a lot of this, correct? Perhaps you need to show how the academic side pertains to the work side in the letter.

Why not just have them rewrite the letter that you are going as an engineer? Half of the gobbledy-gook we deal with makes no sense to most people at all. Don't you need to know IEEE standards? Doesn't help to have the BSEE for this?
 
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