Marc Lüthi (1973), living in northern Argovia (Switzerland) near [[http://www.baden.ch/|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 [[https://launchpad.net/~netztier|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 [[http://www.epfl.ch/|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 [[http://www.unisg.ch/|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 [[http://www.ksb-lu.ch/|Kantonschule Beromünster]]. Those were the golden years.

=== Jobs ===
 * Senior System Engineer at [[http://www.econis.ch/|Econis]] (Oct.'10 and counting )
 * Network engineer in the IT & Logistics division at [[http://www.six-group.com/|SIX Group]] ('09- Sept.'10)
 * Network specialist at [[http://www.six-swiss-exchange.com/|SIX - Swiss Exchange]] ('02-'09)
 * IT supporter with [[http://www.holcim.ch/|Holcim (Switzerland)]] during almost five years ('96-'01)

=== Certifications and other Qualifications ===
 * [[http://www.cisco.com/go/ccna|CCNA]] since February 2005, recertified in Feb. 2012.
 * complete and utter failure to become a [[http://www.cisco.com/go/ccie|CCIE]] during summer 2005. Sometimes, you can aim too high indeed.
 * Cisco Live! 2008 in Orlando/FL, with a good focus on IPv6
 * [[http://campus.training.fortinet.com/|FCSNA and FCSNP]] for the Fortigate products by [[http://www.fortinet.com/|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 [[http://www.airboard.com/|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/]]