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

Punch him in the face and grab his balls - tell him you're a Thailand Kathoey who flooded the Seagate factories to protest a new law preventing ladyboy's from working the Hilton and major hotels in Bankok and caused poor IT Millionaires In NY and London to pay $1,800 for a 900GB 10K SAS drive and wait 4 weeks for it.

I bet he'll tell you his number or break down and admit he doesn't have one...

-Joe
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From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Humphrey Cheung
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:03 AM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: 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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