From: Jason Sinclair (sinclairj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 20:21:08 GMT-3
Guy,
Excellent work with passing the exam. It is nice to see people appreciative
after they have passed. I bet you are feeling lost now not having to study!!
Well done.
Jason Sinclair CCIE #9100
Manager, Network Control Centre
POWERTEL
Ground Level, 55 Clarence Street,
SYDNEY NSW 2000
AUSTRALIA
office: + 61 2 8264 3820
mobile: + 61 416 105 858
* sinclairj@powertel.com.au
-----Original Message-----
From: thomas larus [mailto:tlarus@mwc.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, 8 May 2002 03:18
To: Guy.Lupi@eurekaggn.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: CCIE 9275
I am so happy for you. I have never met you, but I see your
name on the list so much, your name sounds like that of an old friend.
Manny Gonzalez. Howard Berkowitz. Jason Sinclair. . . . I hope we all meet
someday at a networkers convention. Maybe a bunch of us groupstudy "alumni
and alumnae" could hold a gathering at one someday.
The camaraderie here is every bit as important as the
answers to questions about how frame relay traffic shaping works (to me, at
least).
Tom Larus
>>> "Lupi, Guy" <Guy.Lupi@eurekaggn.com> 05/06/02 16:12 PM
>>>
Well, here it is, I have been waiting to send this email for
a long time. I
got my number in RTP this past Friday, CCIE # 9275. It has
been a long road
for me, I started in telecommunications when I was in the
Navy, this was
about 8.5 years ago. I got a little exposure to networking
gear then but it
mostly involved communications systems. After the Navy I
worked for Lucent
for about 6 months where I got more exposure to networking
equipment with
different vendors, I found routing so interesting I decided
that I was going
to go find a job where I could get exposure. In February
2000 I got a job
at a small ISP in NYC working the helpdesk, and every free
second I got I
was on the routers poking around. I was hooked, and from
that moment on I
have read every book I could get my hands on. I was
promoted to junior
engineer (upgrading IOS, turning up simple customer routers
etc.) and then
to full engineer within 6 months, and I started to learn
BGP, OSPF, and
other protocols in depth. After getting my CCNP, I met a
couple of CCIE's
that were working on a project, and they so impressed me
with their
knowledge and comfort level with the equipment that I
decided that I was
goingto be one. I started studying in August of 2001, 9
months non stop,
every weekend practicing on my newly purchased routers, and
every day
reading on the commute to work. When I sat the lab, I found
it to be
extremely challenging, I could not believe that I was
finding it this hard
after almost 3 years of non stop studying Cisco equipment.
I am glad I
waited that 9 months before scheduling the exam, because if
I had gone any
earlier I would not have passed. It truly did require you
to know how the
protocols interoperate and function, if I hadn't then I
definitely would
have failed the routing section.
I would like to say thank you to Paul for creating this
list, it was
fundamental in building the kind of skills and knowledge I
needed to pass.
To John Neiberger for helping me with my first dive into the
old IGRP/OSPF
redistribution, Manny Gonzalez, Mas Kato, Dan Dorton, Howard
Berkowitz and
Priscilla Oppenheimer for their long and detailed
explanations that expose
the real world operation of a protocol, not just the "here
is what you need
to pass the lab" version. Brian McGahan who explained
extended access list
filtering, and Dave Madland. There are so many others that
have helped me
to get to this point. If there is anything I learned from
this experience,
it is that you never stop learning, and that the CCIE's
value is in the
understanding that you gain while studying to pass the lab.
I have so much
more I want to learn, and I look forward to having an
opportunity to do that
with the exceptional people on this list. Good luck to
everyone, I hope you
get the satisfaction of achieving your goals.
Guy H. Lupi
NOC Engineer
Eureka GGN
39 Broadway, 19th Floor
NY, NY 10006
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