Short cuts: How to contact me Directions to my office Directions to the NACS Engineering Conference Room Directions to the NACS URP Conference Room Who is Garrett and what is his role on the UCI Campus? Hi, I'm Garrett D. Hildebrand, and this is my contact page. Unsure about who I am? (e.g., is this the right place?:) Well, if you are looking for a network planner on the UCI campus, you came to the right place. I am the primary network planner for data networking on the UCI campus. I work closely with Todd Strand, the primary network planner for layer 1 (fiber, copper, conduits, paths) network planning. We both work closely with the NACS Network Engineers, who maintain the UCI network, UCInet, and do a fair amount of network planning and design, also. Ways to Contact Garrett If I'm in my office you can call me on the phone. By the way, if you call and get voicemail, I may be on the phone. Using one of my Internet pagers can help you find out if I'm there.

You can Internet-page me using one of the following: IM me (send me an AOL Instant Message) over the Internet using the panel on the left. Note:  You must be an AIM user and have AIM running on your desktop to do this. If you try to IM me using this Web page and you don't have AIM running, you'll get a message like: http://blah...blah/aim:goim?screenname=wrangler2x&message=Hi.+Are+you+there? ain't there. Yech. (or is that Blech?). My screen name is Wrangler2x. Yahoo! Page me--send me a message through Yahoo! Messenger (aka Yahoo! Pager). Note: if the following says, "Not Online right now," forget that idea!  If all this has failed, I may be out of the office (not uncommon), but I wear a cell phone you can call. Of course, if this is not urgent, a sure-fire way to contact me is to send me email, which I read frequently and from many locations. My email address is gdh@uci.edu Or Were You Just Looking for Directions? Click here for directions to my office or for my mailing address

Where I work, how to locate me, and where to send snail mail:

Directions to Garrett's office and the EGW Conference Room

My office is in the east wing of the Engineering Gateway building (building 321)--also known as EGW-- on the 2nd floor.

The EGW Conference Room, E1130 E, is the same building, in the same wing, on the ground floor, which is below street level but at the same level as the quad area.

You can locate the Engineering Gateway building on the campus map by finding grids E8/F8, and looking for building 321. It is located between Gabrelino Drive and Los Trancos Drive, right by a shuttle stop and a yellow pedestrian crosswalk. From a campus pedestrian's perspective, EGW is just S.S-E of the McDonnell Douglas Auditorium and the Information and Computer Sciences and Engineering quad area. It has a large courtyard or quad area which lays between its West and East wings.

If you enter from the rear or from the courtyard or quad area which lays between the wings, you will be on the ground floor level. This is where the conference room is. You will find it behind the open stairwell, at the bottom of a ramp which has a white tubular railing.

If you enter from the street-level entrance, you will be on the 2nd floor. This is where my office is. EGW is between parking lot 18/18a (where the new CalIT2 building is being constructed) and 18c, and is just adjacent to East Peltason Drive. The nearest major cross street is East Peltason and Los Trancos, which is the entrance to parking lots 18 and 18a (see map). The easiest way to find my office is to enter the street-level doorway by the '1' in the '321' building number on the map, turning right on entry and then right again. Ask for me at the front desk.

If you come here for a meeting and no one is in the conference room, just go upstairs to the NACS help desk and ask for me or whomever set the meeting up.

EGW Parking

Parking at UCI requires a parking permit except in metered stalls, which are quite hard to find. Parking permits are available at kiosks at both the West Peltason and East Peltason entrances off of Campus drive. The nearest to Engineering Gateway is at the East Peltason entrance, across from the Police Station and Services Building. This kiosk is noted with a black star on the campus map at the lower right-hand corner of grid C8 on the campus map (the West Peltason permit dispenser is located in grid C5). Rates for sort term parking are shown here.

Because parking lot 18/18a is being used as a construction site, the only nearby parking is parking lot 18c or the parking lot located between East Peltason and Russell Place, by the corner of East Peltason and Gabrielino Drive, located on the campus map in grid E9, and marked '43'.

Road Travel: Directions to UCI NACS Engineering Gateway (EGW)

The directions below should be sufficient, but if you want to see a view of the relative position of Engineering Gateway and the surrounding roads, take a look at this area map.

405 South from north of Fairview

Exit on the 73 South just after Fairview. Exit Bison after passing McArthur. Turn left onto Bison (no toll; tolls start after Bison). Turn right at Peltason Drive to go to EGW. The next stop-sign intersection you will see will be East Peltason and Los Trancos. See below for parking information.

55 freeway or 405 South after the 73 but before Jamboree

Taking 405 South, exit Jamboree, turning West (towards the ocean). Proceed to Campus Drive, turn left. Stay on Campus through University, past West Peltason, past the pedestrian bridge over Campus Drive, and to East Peltason Drive, turning right there to enter the UCI campus. The parking pass kiosk is then on your right. More info on parking below.

405 North, south of Culver (no toll)

If you are south of the Jeffery/University Drive exit, exit when you get there and proceed to Culver Drive, turning left. If you pass--or are past--the Jeffery/University exit, exit on Culver, turning left, continuing on through University Drive, remaining on Culver. On Culver, continue to Campus Drive, turning right. Proceed to East Peltason Drive, turning left.The parking pass kiosk is then on your right. More info on parking below.

405 North from South of Avery Parkway (toll involved)

Exit on the 73 North. Exit Bison, turning right. Turn right again at Peltason Drive. The next stop-sign intersection you will see will be East Peltason and Los Trancos. See below for parking information.

Campus Mail: To send intra-campus mail, simply address to: Garrett Hildebrand, NACS, Eng. Gateway, Zot 2225

You can visit me by going to the 2nd floor of the east wing of EGW, and go to the front desk in NACS and ask for me by name or, "that network wrangler guy, I forget his name." For meetings here, the EGW conference room is directly below NACS, on the ground floor, behind and next to the stairs.

Directions to URP and the UCI NACS URP Conference Room

I also work out of URP, (University Research Park) some of the time. This is where the NACS Network Operations group is, and the NACS URP Conference Room.

The NACS URP facility is located on the south-west corner of California and Bison on the ground floor. From the 73 freeway or from McArthur, proceed on Bison towards the campus and turn right on California, then at the next right into the parking lot. The building is on your right. Walk in the door on the western side and turn right into the first door. There is a receptionist there. No parking permit is required.

Contacting Garrett with Telephone, or Cell Phone:

 

Direct line (EGW office)	949 824-8913
Cell (PacBell PCS) phone	949 874-8913 (like office phone, except prefix)