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Marc Lüthi (1973), living in northern Argovia (Switzerland) near Baden.

Linux

Career

• collected first experience with Red Hat, Mandrake and Debian, but never really made the switch over to Linux.
• discovered Gentoo and loved it, for about a year on one PC and several Sun Ultra workstations. It taught me a lot about Linux and helped to complete the migration to Linux - great support community.
• found Ubuntu in it's late 4.10 days and was instantly upon it.
• running Ubuntu 11.04 on another Laptop (HP Pavilion dv5000)
• running Ubuntu 10.10 on a Shuttle SN95Gv3 barebone with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (Toledo).
• running Ubuntu 10.04 server with some services (NFSv4, Samba, DNS) on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5050e (Brisbane EE)
• all in a fully dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 environment

Involvement

• my page on Launchpad

• spurious visits to the local Linux User Group http://www.lug-ag.ch/

• helping out with the networking part (switches/routers, wireless, mirror server) at SwissTeam's release parties for 7.04, 7.10, 8.04 and 8.10

Education and Career

Education

• dropout in summer '96 at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne), Department of Electrical Engineering, after two failures at first preliminary exams. I hate maths ever since then.

• a short visit to Uni St.Gallen turned out to be a dead end in spring '94; I just didn't feel at home with the ties and white collars, and left after one semester.

• Matura '93 at Kantonschule Beromünster. Those were the golden years.

Jobs

• Senior System Engineer at Econis (Oct.'10 and counting )

• Network engineer in the IT & Logistics division at SIX Group ('09- Sept.'10)

• Network specialist at SIX - Swiss Exchange ('02-'09)

• IT supporter with Holcim (Switzerland) during almost five years ('96-'01)

Certifications and other Qualifications

• CCNA since February 2005, recertified in Feb. 2012.

• complete and utter failure to become a CCIE during summer 2005. Sometimes, you can aim too high indeed.

• Cisco Live! 2008 in Orlando/FL, with a good focus on IPv6

• FCSNA and FCSNP for the Fortigate products by Fortinet

• Cisco Live! 2012 in London(UK)

Fields of Interest

professional

• Networking. TCP/IP, Routing, Switching, Firewalls (mainly Cisco-oriented)

• Network Management. HP OpenView Network Node Manager, CiscoWorks 2000

• Redundancy, fault-tolerance and resilience in networking
• unixoid operating systems
• the protocols of the Internet in general, with some deep love for IPv6.

private

• inline skating and airboarding in wintertime.

• Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld.

• Life, the Universe and Everything http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy.

• listening to what people (don't) say when they open their hearts to let grief, anger, pain, sorrow or old memories out.
• Goa and Psychedelic Trance music and parties, Didgeridoo.

• Geocaching: The Global GPS Cache Hunt http://www.geocaching.com/