At StorageReview.com, I am an analyst and Head of EUC Practice. I cover emerging technology in End User Computing (EUC), virtualization, containers, and storage.

I write a monthly column about virtualization and storage trends for Virtualization and Cloud Review online publications. I have also been a guest speaker at various Redmond magazine summits where I discuss best practices for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), end-user computing, and hyperconverged infrastructure.

Created and published articles, created video content and other marketing collateral to support products and new features Delivered content to users including: live presentation, technical reports, presentations, live and recorded videos, blogs and engaging on social media channelsTrusted advisor for best practices and driving technology needs of the community and internal business unitsProvided feedback from customers to the product management team to triage or improve product

Developed public facing courses for VMware.

Analyzed cutting, leading edge storage and virtualization solutions.➢ Conducted hands on evaluations, and produced written reports for products and for segments of products➢ Met with executives at major virtualization and software vendors to discuss their products and strategies ➢ Met with customers to conduct field reports and conduct “hands on” inspection of equipment to validate vendors claims of performance and usability and produce written reports on my findings

Developed, architected and implemented solutions based on virtualization running in datacenters and private clouds. Organized, marketed and conducted online seminars on behalf of one of the worlds largest virtualization company to energize, educate and excite their top partners about the upcoming transition to the cloud. Through this position I get to work with some of the top names in the virtualization and cloud computing to help them develop solutions to complex real world problems.➢ Working closely across technical teams and business units to design scalable, redundant solutions, based on virtualization technologies, to support an enterprises current needs and allow the solutions to scale out to support future growth.➢ Provide technical direction, proposals and implementation plans to incorporate new and emerging cutting edge technologies into enterprises on an ongoing basis.➢ Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the community➢ Help technical and sales professionals through engagements to help them understand and deliver world-class solutions using leading edge cloud computing and Enterprise proven virtualization technology.➢ Foster the knowledge in the community by engaging with other professionals in online forums, writing technical articles, and speaking at conferences and meetups.

Supported commercial and corporate reseller account executives for VMware virtualization and cloud product line by discussing and demonstrating products to potential customers in person and using various web-based techniques; served as subject matter expert to clients. Assisted in architecture design and implementation of proof of concept deployments.➢ Certifications: VMware Certified Professional 3/4/5, VMware Sales Professional, VMware Sales Technical Professional, and VMware Certified Instructor (lapsed).➢ Increased sales approximately 32% while working with VMware corporate reseller by connecting with client to understand their requirements and delivering customized technical sales presentations.

Specialized in analysis and evaluation of Cloud solutions (Eucalyptus, Amazon Web Services, RHEV) and Hypervisors (Hyper-V, Xen, KVM) that compete with VMware products and produced written reports for engineering and sales teams. • Presented material at VMworld to VMware sales professionals, VMware users groups, C-level executives, and end-users.

As a staff level employee I have the opportunity to work with and assisted other departments (PSO, Sales etc…) as needed in understanding and deploying VMware’s emerging product line this includes develop and deliver technical training on VMwares new products.Contributor to VCP4 Examination Questions and Enterprise Exam Questions

Member of the customer service team responsible for providing second level support for the Sequent PTX, Sequent volume manager. Red Hat, SuSE and VMWARE ESX products. ➢ Provided software support to customers for operating systems. ➢ Diagnosed system performance, process segmentation faults and crash dump analysis. ➢ Provided problem diagnoses and resolution by phone and direct dial-in access to customer systems.

Taught various classes for the Computer Sciense department

While at Sequent I supported Unix and Linux and I thrived on solving difficult technical problems. Sequest was an early adopter of Fiber Chanel and I became acquainted with its use in Point-to-point, arbitrated loop switched topologies. Supported and worked with cutting edge volume managers.

Worked with Medical customers in a pre and post-sales capacity to ensure that Infomedics software met, and would continue to meet their needs. Worked with account executives to help build sales by building relationships with and presenting medical office software presentations to executives at clinics, hospitals and doctors offices.Traveled to customer’s sites to implement our software, as well as accompanying X86 and thin client hardware and SCO UNIX operating systems to support it.

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