Verifying a CCIE for a friend... spider senses tingling

This is a strange situation at my friend's company... wanted to get
some ideas. I'm helping him verify the status of a supposed CCIE.
I'll keep the names anonymous.

Company hires new network admin
Network has crashed dozens of times since the new guy has been hired
Network admin claims to be a CCIE
Network admin doesn't divulge a number... doesn't sign his emails with
his number, doesn't have his number on LinkedIn
Looking at the guy's job history, he's worked at big name company's...
but generally lasts less than a year
Quick Google/LinkedIn/Facebook/Twitter/etc search shows no hits for
his name and anything saying CCIE or a number (permutations of first
name and common nicknames were used in the search just in case we were
missing anything)
Since there's no number, can't use the Cisco verification tool because
it requires a first/last name, cert type and number

Any pointers on where else to look? I think we're about 90% sure this
guy isn't a CCIE... but I think there's no actual smoking gun that
says, "this first name and last name is not and never has been a CCIE"

I'm at Cisco Live until Thursday evening.. if you want to unicast me.

Thanks,

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Humphrey Cheung, CISSP #365719, CCNP, CCDP, CCIP
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