Getting back to work!

It's really good be able to work again after a while. Spending your days for lying down in the bed over and over again is a bit too much for me :(. Recovering from my back injury lights my days again for sure :). And today is the first day I back to work as Juniper engineer. Well today, I start it with learning the system my colleagues have built for years. I have not touched Juniper devices for 2 years, concentrating my all for Infovista. Therefore there are many things I need to remember!

InfoVista and Juniper are two different beasts. Both are excellent for creating flawless network infrastructure. And it's really a golden opportunity given to me for I am be able to be acquainted with both products. Well, both have their own complexity that will take your lifetime for sure, but that's really fun, actually!

After finishing this year's InfoVista projects, I decided for taking time for a while. Taking breath from Infovista and rejuvenating my Juniper memory. Of course, next year there will be more exciting projects for InfoVista, but I saw capabilities from my colleagues and I think this is the right time for entrusting them with the full responsibility for InfoVista.

Meanwhile, I will spend almost my entire time for Juniper things. Having been failure two times in JNCIP-M test is not a pleasant experience I endured in the past. And there's still a small fire inside of me that urge me to pass that exam successfully. Well, I think if I am diligent this year and concentrate all for Juniper, I will be able to do it.

Only three keywords I must do from now on : Practice, Practice and Practice!

Out of Luck...

Well, in the recent months I've been super duper busy executing infovista project in Excelcomm. This year project is divided into 3 phase. And I'm in the middle of the third a.k.a last phase now :). The previous two has been done, but not without some hurdle and obstacles. Btw, it's rare anyway to have a 100% smooth project anyway :).

Sometimes this project requires me to work more than 14 hours. So I was down several times. Well, every human has it's limit ;). I know my company will be more than please seeing me work like that, since they never pay for my off-office hours work anyway.

And then came up news that there will be an employee gathering held in Borobudur Hotel. One of the main event is employee award of the year event. Well, in a moment came a thought maybe I would be recognized because of my hardwork this year and receive it. But after seeing how they determine the winner, i.e. through employee polls, I knew that I wouldn't be a winner anyway.

It's rare people in my office know me anyway since I spend most of the time in Excelcomm. So the event is more suitable called as popularity contest rather than achievement contest :). Even I could guess the winner before the event held. And in the end, I wasn't there anyway. There is no use to attend such an event. It will waste my time and make my spirit lower and it will impact to the project I'm working on...

Well, this is misfortune number one this year.

The second misfortune has just happened. It upset me for a while, but anyway, I'll have a nice bagpack as relieving present from Juniper. Well, honestly I should not complain about this. Juniper has been really nice for offering many gift to network engineer who pass their certification.

But since this is the second time I fail to have the gift I'm hoping maybe I have the right to call it misfortune :P. The first incident happens a few months ago when I request for BOSE headphone because I passed JNCIS-ER. At that time, I email Juniper, asking to change my gift from Casio watch to BOSE and they replied me that they still have BOSE and will ship it to my company address. So I was waiting for my BOSE but it seemed that they mistakenly sent me the Casio. Well, in the end, I sent an email to Juniper informed them about my situation but I said thanks anyway since Juniper has already been too kind for giving their Casio to me freely :).

The second incident is when Juniper announce that there will be a mysterious gift for anyone who has already passed both JNCIA-EX and JNCIS-ES. Well, as a very lucky man, I passed both with "remarkable mark". Why I said that? Because the score is so close to the passing grade that in the end of the test I stopped and said thanks to God, something I rarely do :P. Anyway, I'm more proud have that score because that was pure my understanding, not come from some cheat dump test easily found on the internet :D.

So I hurriedly email them and claim the present. It would be nice to have a recognition from Juniper of my hardwork. Well, it's really hard for me in the recent months of learning things out of infovista since my infovista projects itself has already occupied almost of my time so I deserve to call it as hardwork!

In the first email, I only be able to send them my claim along with certification pass notification from Juniper since I'm out of office. (All of my certification are kept in my office. It's my company policy) Juniper replied me and asked me to sent them scanned result slips or certification. I was very happy since the claim number is JN2-001. Wow, 001! So I was the first man ever to claim that prize :D

So in the next day, I reserve my time specially for visiting my office and asking for my certifications being scanned. After it I emailed them at the first place. Somehow my email are returned and there is a message that my email address has been blocked because of excessive spam. Well, it's really weird since I never spam anyone anyway. But maybe this is the sign of my inability to capture the great prize :).

Later I decide to sent them through my gmail. And here is the thread for you to read:

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Hi,

It seems that my company email has been blocked so I send this through my gmail account.
Thanks..





This is the Postfix program at host dtcmail.datacomm.co.id.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.



For further assistance, please send mail to 

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

   The Postfix program



: host
  smtp.where.secureserver.net[64.202.166.12] said: 553 124.195.5.* mail


  rejected due to excessive spam (in reply to RCPT TO command)

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Hi Stevenus

Your certificate is not in full (the "En___" got truncated). Appreciate if you can resend it in full, alternatively, you can email us your result slip.

Rgds

Juniper Networks Campaign (ASIN) - AROM

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Hi Juniper Team,

Wow, it seems that the lady in my office scanned it wrongly. I must ask her to scan it again since I'm totally out of office in this week.
It may take sometime so that I send you screenshot from my certification progress. Maybe this can be used as a temporary proof before I'm able to get my new scanned certification. Just don't wanna lose my chance of getting "mystery" gift :D.

Thanks..

Regards,

Stevanus

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Hi Stevanus



I apologise but the first 30 had already submitted and closed even before

your submission. Due to overwhelming response for this project (we have

approx 100+ submissions so far).



* But what I will do is issue a new bag pack to you (it is the new range

from Juniper and it looks better than the previous one). It will arrive in

approx 1 weeks time and that should be just nice for the next round of

dispatch after your office lady had scanned the complete certification.



Will look out for your certification then, thks.



Rgds

Juniper Networks Campaign (ASIN) - AROM

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Hi Juniper Team,

Actually I'm really upset receiving your
notification. I thought I was the first one submit the request because
my claim number is JN2-001.
But nevermind. Attached is the certification sent once again. This time she did it correctly :).

Anyway, what is the "mystery gift" you offered previously? J-Series router :P?
Or maybe a job opportunity in silicon valley :P? Just still curious ;).
Thanks..

Regards,


Stevanus

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Anyway, everything has passed. This year is really not a good year for me. Out of luck here and there. But yeah, as I said in the email, nevermind :).

Maybe next year I'll get my prize I deserve to have. I still aim for JNCIP-M today. I failed the test twice and that make me feel like in hell. The failure is in me, which cannot allocate enough time for practising juniper because of my business with infovista. But next year would be different, I have determine to change that.

Beside, I have come to my boss explaining of my situation and he said that he cannot appreciate my work since my company is network-hardware based. So there is no use for being stubborn and risking all of my future with something like this. It's really pity because I've got used to infovista by implementing many projects in Excelcomm and Telkomsel this year. And I have met and worked together with several nice infovista people like Nguyen Vinh, Nitin A., my mentor Philip Brown, M. Zamri, and others.

But if this is something I must throw to garbage can for more promising career, well, I have no choice. Every big thing always needs sacrifice :).

It reminds me that once in the past I shocked everyone because of my anger. Well, at that time I cannot stop it. Well, I think everyone will be like that if they know they are being paid like one hundreth of other people payment. Hmm, I exaggerate it a little bit, but that's a sad true fact in indonesia. I can still remember my first salary as system engineer in my first company. At that time, I receive less than $150/month! Can you imagine that? As an employee we can do nothing here except struggle, struggle and struggle since there are approximately more than 40% unemployee in indonesia and the number keeps increasing each year.

That's life.

Actually I don't know what will happen in next year. Maybe the worst case is I have to resign from my company in pursuing for higher career. Or maybe a more serious company will hire me for doing infovista for their projects? Or maybe....I don't know...

All for all, I have to prepare my all for next year!

Very busy recently...

I've been very very busy recently doing InfoVista project for Excelcommindo..
Last year, I was a dumb supervisor accompanying InfoVista professional consultant. But this year, I had an opportunity of doing the project myself.

It's a golden opportunity to show that I'm capable of being a professional consultant as well ;).
I should thank my boss for always supporting me and letting me take any InfoVista training and workshop whenever available :)...

If I did it myself, maybe I still can do it, but not this good.
Well, I still have to save a lot for my current family and my future family so if I don't join a company that give me a lot room to improving my skill, then I'll be nobody :)...

And it's very nice working with SUN's IT professional. They are so damn good and nice too ;).

Curicullum Vitae

Working Experience

March 2004 – August 2006: Centrin Online PT, Tbk, Bandung as System Engineer

August 2006 – Present: Datacomm Diangraha PT, Jakarta as System Engineer

Project Experience 2004 – 2006 (Centrin)

Centrin Internal Project – Network Monitoring Server

• Role : Build and customize the system and maintain it afterwards.

• Description :

• Deploy NMS using Nagios to monitor Centrin’s Routers and Servers using SNMP
• Develop plugins for KPI that cannot be monitored by default using perl and shell script
• Administer Nagios in Centrin for daily operation

Centrin Internal Project – Trouble Ticket System

• Role : Build and customize the system and maintain it afterwards

• Description :

• Deploy Trouble Ticket System using OTRS
• Customize the OTRS source code in order to fulfill Centrin’s need
• Administer OTRS in Centrin for daily operation

Centrin Internal Project – Voip Based PABX System

• Role : Build and customize the system and maintain it afterwards

• Description :

• Deploy Voip PABX using Redhat Linux and Asterisk
• Customize the Asterisk source code in order to fulfill Centrin’s need (IVR part)
• Integrate Centrin billing into Asterisk IVR system using Asterisk perl-AGI
• Develop Web GUI for monitoring, accounting, recording and statictic reporting using php

Centrin Internal Project – MyCentrin WebSite (my.centrin.net.id)

• Role : Build the scripting engine for MyCentrin WebSite and maintain it afterwards

• Description :

• Build news, exchange rate, gold, stocks, and weather forecast crawler script for my.centrin.net.id using perl
• Build customer customization engine script for my.centrin.net.id using perl
• Using web template provided by Centrin’s graphic desainer

Centrin Internal Project – Centrin WebSite (www.centrin.net.id)

• Role : Build the scripting engine for Redeem Point System and maintain it afterwards

• Descriptions :

• Build Redeem Point System (now Centrin Reward) using perl
• Using web template provided by Centrin’s graphic desainer

2006 – Present

J Series, MPLS Project – Excelcom

• Role : Pre-config and deployed the router at customer site

• Descriptions :

• Assisting in preparing router configuration
• Deploy the devices on Excelcomm’s site

Infovista Project – Excelcom

• Role : Provisioning the MPLS IP-VPN network

• Descriptions :

• Provision Excelcomm network devices into Infovista

• Build scripting engine using perl for provisioning tool

3 Tier Firewall and IP Management System – Telkom Flexi

• Role : Pre-config and deployed the Firewall at customer site

• Descriptions :

• Preparing firewall configuration

• Deploy the devices on Telkom Flexi’s site

Security DCN – Telkom Flexi

• Role : Pre-config and deployed the IDP at customer site

• Descriptions :

• Preparing IDP configuration and staging IDP

• Deploy the devices on Telkom Flexi’s site

Infovista Enhancement – Excelcom

• Role : Operating Support System Engineer

• Descriptions :

• Supervise foreign consultant

Infovista Hardware Migration Project

• Role : Operating Support System Engineer

• Descriptions :

• Supervise foreign consultant

Infovista PM IT Network Expansion Project

• Role : Operating Support System Engineer

• Descriptions :

• Supervise foreign consultant

Infovista MPLS Expansion

• Role : Operating Support System Engineer

• Descriptions :

• Supervise foreign consultant
  

Infovista Vista Insight for Server Implementation

• Role : Implementation Consultant

• Descriptions :

• Implement Vista Insight for Server Solution out of the box
• Modify the default provisioning script in order to meet Excelcomm’s need

Infovista Enhancement

• Role : Implementation Consultant

• Descriptions :

• Build trap script engine for sending email for each anomalies detected for VIN solution
• Build trap script engine for sending email for each anomalies detected for VIS solution

Dorado – Provisioning Juniper Router with Dorado in Excelcomm

• Role : Operating Support System Engineer

• Descriptions :

• Supervise foreign consultant
  

Border Router Security Solution for TelkomNET

• Role : System Engineer (Project Leader)

• Descriptions :

• Build pre documentation (Solution Design Pack)
• Staging and deploy Cisco Guard and Narus Server at Telkom’s site
• Working with Joe Cowan from Narus to integrate Cisco Guard and Narus Secure Suite
• Build post documentation (Standard Operation Procedure, Standard Maintenance Procedures, Solution Delivery Package)

Education

1999 – 2003 Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta

• Graduated: Bachelor^*
• Majoring in Information Technology

* recognized as one of the best graduated student

2000 – 2004 Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta

• Graduated: Bachelor
• Majoring in Civil Engineering

Certificates

CCNA, Cisco Certified Network Associate, Cisco Systems

JNCIA-M, Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate, M-Series Router
JNCIS-M, Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist, M-Series Router
JNCIA-ER, Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate, Enterprise Routing
JNCIS-ER, Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist, Enterprise Routing
JNSA-AC, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Access Control
JNSA-DX, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Data Center Acceleration
JNSA-S, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Advanced Security
JNSA-R, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Enterprise Routing
JNSA-EN, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Enterprise Networking
JNSA-M, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Service Provider Infrastructure M-Series
JNSA-E, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Service Provider Infrastructure E-Series
JNSA-WX, Juniper Network Sales Associate, WAN Acceleration
JNSS-AC, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Access Control
JNSS-DX, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Data Center Acceleration
JNSS-S, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Advanced Security
JNSS-R, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Enterprise Routing
JNSS-EN, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Enterprise Networking
JNSS-M, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Service Provider Infrastructure M-Series
JNSS-E, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Service Provider Infrastructure E-Series
JNSS-WX, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, WAN Acceleration
ENA, Extreme Network Associate
IVCA, Infovista Certified Administrator
IVCD, Infovista Certified Developer

Training

February 11^th – 17^th, 2007 - Shanghai, Extreme Network Associate Training

May, 14^th – 18^th, 2007 - Singapore, Infovista Administration

May, 21^st – 25^th, 2007 - Singapore, Infovista Developer

January, 21^st – 25^th, 2008 - Singapore, Infovista VF4 Update Workshop

February, 1^st – 4^th, 2008 - Jakarta, Cisco Guard and Traffic Anomaly Detector

Certification update

There is revision on Sales Certification on Juniper due to the emerging of EX switches products. So the JNSA-R and JNSS-R is replaced by JNSA-EN and JNSS-EN. And today I have completed both, add two more certificates to my collections :

• CCNA, Cisco Certified Network Associate, Cisco Systems
• JNCIA-M, Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate, M-Series Router
• JNCIS-M, Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist, M-Series Router
• JNCIA-ER, Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate, Enterprise Routing
• JNCIS-ER, Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist, Enterprise Routing
• JNSA-AC, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Access Control
• JNSA-DX, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Data Center Acceleration (discontinue)
• JNSA-S, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Advanced Security
• JNSA-R, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Enterprise Routing (retired)
• JNSA-EN, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Enterprise Networking
• JNSA-M, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Service Provider Infrastructure M-Series
• JNSA-E, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Service Provider Infrastructure E-Series
• JNSA-WX, Juniper Network Sales Associate, WAN Acceleration
• JNSS-AC, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Access Control
• JNSS-DX, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Data Center Acceleration (discontinue)
• JNSS-S, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Advanced Security
• JNSS-R, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Enterprise Routing (retired)
• JNSS-EN, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Enterprise Networking
• JNSS-M, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Service Provider Infrastructure M-Series
• JNSS-E, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Service Provider Infrastructure E-Series
• JNSS-WX, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, WAN Acceleration
• ENA, Extreme Network Associate
• IVCA, Infovista Certified Administrator
• IVCD, Infovista Certified Developer

I'm still wait for some of my certification which are being sent by Juniper ;)...

Certification

Fuih, finally today I completed all Juniper Sales Exam!
So this is the list of certifications I currently hold :

• CCNA, Cisco Certified Network Associate, Cisco Systems
• JNCIA-M, Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate, M-Series Router
• JNCIS-M, Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist, M-Series Router
• JNCIA-ER, Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate, Enterprise Routing
• JNCIS-ER, Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist, Enterprise Routing
• JNSA-AC, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Access Control
• JNSA-DX, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Data Center Acceleration
• JNSA-S, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Advanced Security
• JNSA-R, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Enterprise Routing
• JNSA-M, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Service Provider Infrastructure M-Series
• JNSA-E, Juniper Network Sales Associate, Service Provider Infrastructure E-Series
• JNSA-WX, Juniper Network Sales Associate, WAN Acceleration
• JNSS-AC, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Access Control
• JNSS-DX, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Data Center Acceleration
• JNSS-S, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Advanced Security
• JNSS-R, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Enterprise Routing
• JNSS-M, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Service Provider Infrastructure M-Series
• JNSS-E, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, Service Provider Infrastructure E-Series
• JNSS-WX, Juniper Network Sales Specialist, WAN Acceleration
• ENA, Extreme Network Associate
• IVCA, Infovista Certified Administrator
• IVCD, Infovista Certified Developer

The funny thing is when I had just completed the JNSA-DX and JNSS-DX exam, then I read the news that DX would not be marketed by Juniper anymore...

If I had known that.....