Personal Information

Marc Lüthi (1973), living in northern Argovia, not too far from where the river Aare flows into the Rhine.

Education

• dropout at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) [http://www.epfl.ch/], after two failures at first propaedeutic exams in electrical engineering.

• a short visit to Uni St.Gallen [http://www.unisg.ch/ turned out to be a dead end.

• Matura '93 at Kantonschule Beromünster [http://www.ksb-lu.ch/]. Those were the golden years.

Career

• Network specialist at SWX - Swiss Exchange [http://www.swx.ch/] for five years and counting...

• IT support at Holcim Switzerland [http://www.holcim.ch/] for almost five years

Certifications

• CCNA since February 2005
• complete and utter failure to become a CCIE during summer 2005

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

private

• inline skating, motorcycling and airboarding [http://www.airboard.com/] 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 Psytrance music
• Sarah