Nice way to learn a bit about the people frequenting this forum, so here's my input:
I'm a 30 years young Belgian citizen, happily married and living near Brussels.
I work for a multinational IT service company as a Systems Engineer.
I slided into the IT world about 5 years ago, working as a sales rep for a home decoration wholesaler I (being the youngest at the firm) was asked by my employer at that time to install him a small network (1 NT server + 5 clients W95 on a coax network). It took me some sleeples nights and liters of coffee but finally I pulled it of. Little did I know that this would give me the status of IT guru in my firm

So I started to administer the whole IT infrastructure (if it was worthy that name
I supported that environment for about 1 year (in combination with my sales occupations) and decided to give it a shot in the IT world.
I got my first job in the IT world as a helpdesk agent (office, W95 etc..), starting to study for my MCSE NT4 certs and ended up passing my last exam about 1 year later.
After that I started at my current employer where my main occupation is administrating and designing Windows based IT infrastructures.
Professionaly I mostly work with security and network related products: Windows 2003 (PKI, VPN, etc..), eSafe, McAfee, Fortinet, etc... In my free time I try to work with the Open Source counterparts of the products I use at work (Debian, Snort, Squid, apache, etc..).
I currently hold a MCSE (NT4, 2000) cert. I plan to get my CCNA/CCNP after I have some more hands-on experience and a Linux cert is also high on my to-do list.
I follow a bachelor education in telecomunications a a local university, and if I find some spare time I devote it to my lovely wife
I visit this site on a regular base but to my shame must admit I never posted anything yet

So one of my intentions for 2005 is sharing my (limited) network knowledge with the firewall.cx community.
To end this post I would like to congratulate all moderators and members of this great site for maintaining such a super site !
Keep sharing the knowledge !!
Greetz,
Stefke