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

People take pride in displaying their CCIE# so your friend should have smelt
something fishy when the guy refused to disclose his CCIE number. Just tell
your friend to take it up with HR and demand his credentials. His number can
be verified on the Cisco web site below.

https://sso.cisco.com/autho/forms/CDClogin.html

You will need to create a CCO ID before you can verify a Certification
number.

Regards,
Sid
Nobody's really listening, until you make a mistake...

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Humphrey Cheung
Sent: 13 June 2012 09:03
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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Humphrey Cheung, CISSP #365719, CCNP, CCDP, CCIP
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