From: Muthu Mohanasundaram (mmsundar@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 22:57:40 GMT-3
Congrats Robert,
Tell me if it is a boy or girl.
Mohan.
--- Robert_Wang@toyota.com wrote:
>
>
> HELLO to our CCIE-to-be folks,
>
> I finally got my CCIE# 5918 right after Joe in San
> Jose on this memorable
> memorial weekend. What a great way to spend a
> holiday like this, off course
> after passing it!!
> I wish I could have joined this study group earlier
> since I really learned a lot
> from most of you and got inspired by those CCIE
> success story. I could not
> believe it's my turn to do this!!
>
> To make my story short, I got into the networking
> field back in 91' doing
> Novell/UNIX integration. I worked for a Novell VAR
> and got my CNA then MCSE.
> The next few years, I was doing product testing and
> support for bridge / router
> manufactures where I gained a great deal of
> experience on internetworking.
> Since becoming a network consultant at Lucent, I
> joined our internal study group
> and passed the written 2 years ago. Before the
> expiration of my written last
> July, I went ahead and took my first lab --- Crash
> and Burn badly. I went back
> again in Oct. and this past Jan. for my 2nd and 3rd
> attempts, I was feeling more
> disappointed after each failures. Before giving it
> up after my 3rd failure, I
> got strong support and prayer from my wife and our
> church. I signed up for my
> 4th try again and changed the way I studied before.
> I did not stress myself all
> the time trying to accomplish 20 things in a lab,
> instead, each week I focused
> on specific area, did thorough research on the CDs
> and CCO, then set up my
> practice lab.
>
> On the warm memorial weekend, I was back again in
> San Jose for my 4th try. I
> did not push myself too hard this time and calm down
> to slowly accomplish each
> section. I was lucky to get the day 2 book and even
> got into the
> troubleshooting section. After receiving my welcome
> letter from the proctor, I
> called my wife with tears since I have owed her too
> many weekends burying myself
> into the labs. With our first baby due this month,
> I really thank God that He
> really does everything in His time with His plan on
> me.
>
> With that, good luck to everyone and enjoy the road
> to your final goal, it¡Çs
> worth the try and never give up!!
> My next certificate will be something called
> ¡ÈDADDY¡É which many of you are
> certified!!!
>
> Cheers..............
>
> -Robert Wang-
> CCIE #5918
> Network Systems Consultant
> Lucent NetworkCare Professional Services
> Costa Mesa, CA
> rowang@lucent.com
>
>
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>
>
>
>
> "Joe Martin" <jmartin@gte.net> on 05/28/2000
> 04:58:28 PM
>
> Please respond to "Joe Martin" <jmartin@gte.net>
>
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> cc: (bcc: Robert Wang/Vendors/Toyota)
>
> 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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