About 10 years ago, almost to the date, I was blessed enough to have my Grandfather send me to get my CCNA at a bootcamp in PA.\u00a0Today, I was able get my CCIE number after 2 attempts and over a 2 year journey!\u00a0I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their continued support and guidance to me on my journey!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Special thanks: <\/em><\/strong> To mom and dad, without you guys, I would not be here; literally or professionally. Letting me build out labs in the basement and constantly break stuff until you could get back on the internet… And also teaching me the value of hard work (and all the skills I’ve acquired), which has paid off yet again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n To my Mentors<\/em>:<\/strong> Bob Dees, Norm (#Top5DOA), Bill Burns, Johnny Bass, and Mr. Gutt for teaching me that there is always a way to solve a problem, even if you need to take a few steps back to have a better look at it. For challenging me to push myself farther than I could ever imagine. Also for your continued guidance and support throughout my professional career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To everyone else:<\/em><\/strong> Big R Dogs, Mike T, Bob H, Dave B, Kakos, Trav, Keith S, Kyle F, Satish, Bradresh and everyone else I can’t think of right now, thank you for your guidance and support; it is much appreciated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About 10 years ago, almost to the date, I was blessed enough to have my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,11,30,44],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-ccie","tag-ccie-lab","tag-journey","tag-r-n-s"],"rise-blocks_total_comments":1,"rise-blocks_categories":[{"term_id":3,"name":"Tech Stuff","slug":"tech-stuff","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":43,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":43,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Tech Stuff","category_nicename":"tech-stuff","category_parent":0}],"rise-blocks_excerpt":"About 10 years ago, almost to the date, I was blessed enough to have my..","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}