IT Professional by day, Fiction Writer by night.With my 20+ years of experience in IT infrastructure engineering and architecture design, one might suspect that bleeding-edge technology is what motivates me to hit the ground running. Tech can be very cool, but my passion for the industry comes from the purpose tech serves: It can improve the lives of people. A leader and a teacher at heart, I am far more inspired by the customer relationship, the pre-sales process, and post-sales knowledge transfer, than I am with the widgets themselves.Redhat RHCE and VMware VCP certified, I have been using VMware since it was free (version 0.9x on linux), and over the years I have implemented VMware infrastructure solutions on almost every rack mount and blade system available: HP, Dell, IBM, and Cisco. Even whitebox systems.Leveraging technologies that support virtualization, I have experience with a broad variety of data center products including: Cisco UCS B-Series and C-Series, Cisco Nexus, Cisco MDS, Cohesity, NetApp, EMC, Brocade, and many others. Cloud integration with Cohesity, and networking with the Cisco Meraki stack are my latest interests. That is my day job.As a hobby, I am also a published fiction author. Find me on Amazon.Specialties: Pre-Sales Engineering and Architecture Design, Sales Presentation, Training, Service Contracts, Problem-solving, Troubleshooting, Documentation, Hardware Implementation, Vendor Management, Team Leadership, IT Management