Re: CCIE Hall of Fame . . . . . Missing No.

Antonio,

Thank you for bringing this up. You are correct people like Pedro
passed the TAC Engineer qualfications before the official CCIE Program
and were later awarded numbers. So technically they got their CCIE
before Biggs and Slattery, however, Biggs and Slattery received the
first numbers since this was probably when the program started and
other Cisco employees were later awarded the CCIE, but since the the
early numbers were already gone they got the next numbers.

If anyone cares to look the CCDE is currently having a similar story.
The first CCDE is Ryan Hicks, but there are older CCDEs from the
previous year and these are the guys on the CCDE development team.
Note their numbers.

Some of you guys will argue anything.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Antonio Soares <amsoares_at_netcabo.pt> wrote:
> Hello Mark,
>
> Please add my colleague Pedro Rey to your list:
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Name Certification Type Certification Number Track Certification Status Certification Date
> PEDRO REY CCIE 1178 Routing and Switching Suspended 21-Jan-1993
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> You can see that Pedro is an older CCIE than STUART BIGGS, TERRANCE SLATTERY and many more that have a lower CCIE Number.
>
> I was talking with Pedro about this and it seems in Europe some Engineers were awarded with the Cisco TAC Engineer Certification or
> something similar. The CCIE word came later so these guys got their certification renamed CCIE. Of course, their got higher numbers
> but they got their Certification first.
>
> So these are actually the first CCIE's in the World.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio Soares, CCIE #18473 (R&S)
> amsoares_at_netcabo.pt
>
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Received on Sat Oct 24 2009 - 01:21:22 ART