Hall Of Fame Board

Chris Deren (2017)

Technical Lead CCIE-Collaboration #17137. I have been working with Cisco Collaboration technologies since 2002. I started my career on CallManager 3.3 and limited applications that came with it back then to see the technology evolve to broad range of Collab applications, messaging, presence, SIP trunking, contact center, etc. My other area of focus is contact center ranging from small UCCX deployments to large enterprise UCCE accounts. My daily job includes the full project life cycle from pre-sales, architecture and design, to implementation and support. I started to regularly participate on Netpro in April 2005, and I have to admit I got kind of addicted to the forum. I find it most useful in finding design, implementation and support tricks and shortcuts that greatly help me in my daily activities. My advice to anyone interested in Networking technologies is to read, research, study and enjoy these technologies as the material is infinite.

Giuseppe Larosa (2010)

Electronic Engineer in 1993 Since 1997 consultant in the networking for Telecom Italia Group and later for other service providers. On July the 1st 2010 I have joined Cypress Consult as an Associate. My new role is senior network consultant for a service provider customer. I' m expected to provide technical support and knowledge transfer to customer's stuff. My Specialties are: In November 2012 I have joined Juniper and Cisco partner b! Spa part of CEIT group (owner Sandro Bordato) ITIL Service Management Foundation v.3 since Nov 2008 Cisco CCIE Service Provider #14802 since June 23 2005 Cisco CCNP since Juanary 2002 Cisco CCNA since July 2000 Cisco CCNA Voice Enterprise Ed. since October 2009 Juniper JNCIS-M since December 2010 Juniper JNCIP-SP since November 16th 2012

Jaime Valencia (2011)

I've been involved in voice since I joined Cisco at the AVVID team back in 2006 and after that I've been with the PDI UC team to the day. I'm a Network Consulting Engineer with the PDI UC HelpDesk and we dedicate to assist UC specialized partners. Most of my free time at work I'm either studying, reviewing product reference material or replying at CSC. In my free time I go to the gym to workout to stay fit after being sitting in my chair all day, I'm into Metal (pretty much any kind of metal, but Prog and Trash are my favorites) so I also attend a lot of gigs here in MX City and enjoy watching movies (I have a large collection of DVDs and BDs). I'm a Steelers fan and I usually wear my Polamalu Jersey whenever they play. CCNA-CCDA-CCVP-VCP4 now updated to VCP5, I'll start updating all my lab to ESXi 5 the next couple of months. UPDATE: 7/11/12 Now I'm also a Cisco Unity Support Specialist and also have passed the Cisco Unified Communications Architecture and Design exam. My goal is to get the CCIE-V and I'm already re-building my lab to practice. 02/21/13 I'm now also a Cisco Unified Presence Specialist 10/11/13 Cisco Unified Communications on Unified Computing Systems Specialist Biography from communities: Former member of TAC AVVID team. Now with the PDI team and pursuing the CCIE V I'm being part of the Drive to 9 initiative

Joe Clarke (2010)

As a Cisco Customer Experience engineer, Joe has contributed to development and adoption of many of Cisco's network management and automation products and technologies. He helps to support, enhance, and promote the embedded automation and programmability features, such as the Embedded Event Manager, Tcl, Python, NETCONF/RESTCONF, and YANG. Joe evangelizes these programmability and automation skills in order to build the next generation of network engineer. Joe is a top-rated speaker at Cisco's annual user conference, CiscoLive!, as well as a certified as a Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert, Certified Java Programmer, VMware Certified Professional, and certified Cisco network programmability engineer. Joe provides network consulting and design support for the CiscoLive! and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) conference network infrastructure deployments. He has authored numerous technical documents on Cisco network management, automation, and programmability products and technologies as well as a chapter co-author in the Springer publication, “Network-Embedded Management and Applications: Understanding Programmable Networking Infrastructure”; and he served as one of the technical editors for the Cisco Press books, “Tcl Scripting for Cisco IOS” and “Programming and Automating Cisco Networks: A guide to network programmability and automation in the data center, campus, and WAN.” Joe is co-author of over 20 Cisco patents. He is an alumnus of the University of Miami and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science. Outside of Cisco, Joe is a member of the FreeBSD project, and the co-chair of the Ops Area Working Group at the IETF. Joe is a certified commercial pilot for single-engine airplanes with an instrument rating. Biography from communities: As a Global TAC engineer, he has contributed to network management products and technologies by finding and fixing bugs, as well as implementing maintenance and troubleshooting components in Cisco Prime, Cisco’s flagship network management suite. Joe helps to support and enhance the embedded automation and programmability technologies, such as the Embedded Event Manager, Tcl, NETCONF/RESTCONF, and ONE Platform Kit (onePK). Joe is a top-rated speaker at Cisco’s annual user conference, CiscoLive!, as well as a certified as a Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert, Certified Java Programmer, and VMware Certified Professional. Joe provides network consulting and design support for the CiscoLive! and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) conference network infrastructure deployments. He has authored numerous technical documents on Cisco network management, automation, and programmability products and technologies as well as a chapter co-author in the Springer publication, “Network-Embedded Management and Applications: Understanding Programmable Networking Infrastructure”; and he served as one of the technical editors for the Cisco Press book, “Tcl Scripting for Cisco IOS.” Joe is co-author of over 20 Cisco patents. He is an alumnus of the University of Miami and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science. Outside of Cisco, Joe is a member of the FreeBSD project. He is a committer in the project focusing mainly on the GNOME Desktop. He also maintains the FreeBSD ports Tinderbox application, which facilitates the automated packaging a testing of FreeBSD third-party ports. Joe is a certified private pilot for single-engine airplanes with an instrument rating.