From: Brad Ellis (ironbrad@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 23:29:50 GMT-3
Who's the youngest/oldest CCIE out there? Just curious.
-Brad Ellis
CCIE#5796
(27 years old)
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Conzone" <jkconzone@home.com>
To: "Joe Martin" <jmartin@gte.net>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: New CCIE
> Joe, congratulations. I'm 43, and hoping ot gt my CCIE before I'm 53!
> Go get 'em!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Martin" <jmartin@gte.net>
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 7:58 PM
> Subject: New CCIE
>
>
> > H e l l o from Sunny San Jose.
> >
> > I've just arrived back in my hotel after sucessfully completing the CCIE
> R/S
> > lab.
> >
> > My brain isn't quite functioning correctly yet, but I wanted to pass
along
> a
> > great deal of thanks to everyone in the group. I have learned so much
> from
> > each of you. I'll try to continue to lurk and help when I can.
> >
> > Here's a bit of my story:
> >
> > I'm 33. Got my first computer when I was 13. 20 years. Wow!!! Fell
in
> > love with programming. At 17, I got a job teaching college and was
> building
> > custom IBM compatibles for a friends business. I taught continuing
> > education computer classes. Did that for three years to help pay for my
> own
> > college. By my third year of college I burned out on programming. I'd
> > finally come out of my shell and found that I didn't want to sit in a
cube
> > all day and write code. I then went to work for a small telcom
> interconnect
> > and learned all about PBXs. Did that for 7 years. I decided to make
the
> > leap back into "real" computers and data. I went to work for the phone
> > company as a field data technician. Did that for 1 1/2 years and then
> > became a Sales Engineer. Been doing that for about 3 years now. I've
got
> > lots of hands on and plenty of different certifications(Cisco,
Bay/Nortel,
> > Fore/Marconi, etc...). Last year, I decided to work towards my CCIE. I
> > also decided to get all the intermediate certifications along the way.
> > Starting from last April to November, I did my CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP.
In
> > January of this year I did my Voice access specialization. In February
I
> > passed the CCIE written. I've been hitting my engineering lab at work
> ever
> > since. I did 4 hours a nite every day of the week and 12 hours each day
> of
> > the weekend since then. Its been 3 1/2 months of hell. My wife has
been
> > very understanding.
> >
> > Boy, was that a long rambling paragraph. Hope my highschool english
> teacher
> > isn't reading this!
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Joe Martin
> > CCIE#5917, and a couple of other things...
> >
> >
> >
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