From: Thomas Larus (tlarus@cox.net)
Date: Wed Jun 16 2004 - 20:56:30 GMT-3
He still has his CCIE, but a new employer cannot use it to fulfill a Cisco
partnership requirement for a year (unless he can get the old employer to
let it go, which looks unlikely.) The odd thing is that the old employer
only gets to use his CCIE for six months, while it could be a year before
another employer can use his CCIE for partnership. His CCIE could
conceivably be in limbo and useless to any Cisco partner for the second six
months period.
I do not know whether or under what circumstances Cisco treats these matters
differently from the way I just described. This is merely my understanding
of the policies I have read, which may not be how things work in practice.
The policy seems a bit draconian to me, so I would be happy to learn that it
is usually enforced less strictly than it reads. The interesting thing is
that the Cisco policy in question refers to the situation where a partner
"hires away" a CCIE from another Cisco partner. I can understand that the
problem of employers poaching each other's CCIEs must have been a major
problem at some point, but Cisco's policy to prevent this goes further than
it needs to to prevent that "luring away."
It is hard enough for Cisco partners to fulfill all the requirements to keep
Cisco Silver or Gold Partner status. I guess this is meant to be a gesture
from Cisco to the partners.
Tom Larus, CCIE #10,014
Author of CCIE Warm-Up: Advice and Learning Labs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph D. Phillips" <jphillips@ufcwdrugtrust.org>
To: "Group Study (E-mail)" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 7:21 PM
Subject: CCIE Number
> I don't understand the difference. Why do you have to work for a Cisco
partner? Can't you advertise yourself as a CCIE to any employer you want?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nii orfson [mailto:norfson@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 16:16
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: CCIE Number
>
>
> Hey guys, I resigned from my company, Future Tech Enterprise
(www.ftei.com)
> on May 1st, but the company is refusing to release my CCIE number. I do
> have positions with gold partners, one in South Africa and another in Va,
> but both offers are falling apart as those companies would like to use my
> number which is tied to FTEI. I sponsored myself for the CCIE and joined
> FTEI more than 7 months after passing the lab. The two companies have
> advised me to get a release letter from FTEI, but the company simply
> refuses to release the number. I have sent countless emails to Cisco,
> left messages with Partner Relations, opened cases, but neither Cisco nor
> FTEI seems to have a sense of urgency regarding this issue. Can anyone
> recommend a course of action? Joe
>
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