Ugur Oktay has a degree in Electronics Engineering and  passed his Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Routing and Switching exam (CCIE #16829) in September 2006. He is one of a small percentage of people that pass their CCIE labs on their first attempt.

Ugur has a multitude of experience in IT and telecommunications around data centers , OSS/BSS systems, information security, broadband systems and almost anything related to service providers. For the last 10 years he worked for Cisco as part of the global service provider team where he had the chance to design and implement systems serving millions of subscribers each day.