I restored an old copy of this blog that I had not even looked at for several years and decided to use it as a means to force myself to begin creating content and as an aid to my study efforts as well as the pursuit of knowledge and to be more disciplined while sharing my thoughts. I just finished setting things up to run the blog and should begin adding more content in the coming weeks.

So much to do, so little time. It’s been tiring lately, work and family have led me to decide to stop the CCIEing for the time being. I just did the RS written a couple of weeks ago and got recerted until  2013, which is very cool, plus that gives me 18 months to sit the new RS blueprint that is about to be implemented in Oct 18th. Will focus on lighter certs until I can have some things straighten out, the next several months I’ll...

Been struggling with keeping up with studying and then writing here. It’s been very busy at work with a Contact Center we are deploying, takes a toll to stay late everyday to do stuff that you can’t while everyone is working. And I consider voice a lot less entertaining than Security or RS, by far. I will be back at working on Frame Relay from the beginning in the next few weeks, I’m sure I will cause we are reaching a good...

Back in 2007 I promised myself I would become CCIE RS by the end of the year and then go on with the Security track afterwards, so I started to read on for the written part while I finished my last few months of studies towards my Master’s degree. A month after graduation, I passed the RS written, it wasn’t very difficult to go through an exam after reading so much stuff. I started my lab preparation with the buying of material from...

Moving overseas was a challenge, not really easy to be honest, but it was good to help make me grow in so many aspects. While working for the small consulting firm I got concentrated in working and studying full time, I kept on going and did some more certs done: MCSE/MCSA: Security 2k MCSE/MCSA: Messaging 2k MCDBA (I hated it and it took me just a couple of days to figure out I am not build do just do DB stuff, I learned useful things while...

While looking for a better job to secure my income (I already had a daughter and was about to finish college), I found a nice oportunity from another HP partner company, this time it was the place to be at. This dude (my boss) wanted me to be MCP as soon as possible, they did MS, Cisco, Avaya besides doing HP as their main business, it was great, they sent me for training (upstairs, the training center was in the same building) more than once...