I promised an update on my CCDE journey last week on Twitter, so here we go… I’ve been preparing for the practical for about 4 months and finally took it for the first time on 5.30.18. So, here’s my story… In preparation for the practical, I attended a CCDE bootcamp by Jeremy Filliben and it was awesome. Several of my study buddies from Cisco also attended, so we were able to collaborate during and after the bootcamp which was cool….
I was inspired to document my career journey after reading a post by Packet Pushers @ecbanks. Circa 1997 I was working in a local computer shop called Circle Computer in Ephrata, PA. We were a Commodore Amiga shop, but Commodore went bankrupt and had to start pushing x86 PC’s. The Intel Pentium MMX processors were hot at this time and Duke Nukem 3D was the FPS of choice. I was mostly responsible for building PCs…
It all started at #CLUS Unfortunately, I was unable to attend Cisco Live US in Las Vegas this year. Don’t shed any tears for me as I was fortunate enough to have customers, friends, and co-workers attend. They got me some sweet swag and provided a play-by-play as things unfolded. One such morsel of information was regarding a “CCIE DNA” or “CCIE GUI”. At first I was just sitting in front of my monitor drifting into space thinking what the format of…