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Louisville, KY, US

Kirkland, WA, US

Creating programs to enable sales engineers to succeed at winning customers using the best zero CVE images on the planet.

Louisville, Kentucky, US

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Louisville, Kentucky, US

As a co-founder and co-host for Bourbon Pursuit, I get to interview the best minds in the bourbon whiskey industry. Bourbon Pursuit is the largest whiskey podcast in the world.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Promoted to lead the Tanzu Kubernetes Platform technical marketing team, I spearheaded the recruitment of talented individuals with technical backgrounds and developed their abilities in technical marketing.- Hired technically proficient talent and cultivated their expertise in Kubernetes and VMware Tanzu products, while refining their process for creating.

Palo Alto, CA, US

I transitioned to a role requiring deep expertise in the open source components underlying Tanzu enterprise products, enabling me to develop collateral and empower internal and external stakeholders.- Drove the launch of vSphere with Tanzu and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, including software testing, bug logging, documentation authoring, product marketing.

Palo Alto, CA, US

I established a presence as the liaison between open source communities and product teams, providing a direct communication channel for new updates while contributing upstream to projects, creating collateral, and participating in open source discussions.- Contributed to Kubernetes 1.12 and 1.14 releases in shadow roles, and led Enhancements in Kubernetes.

kendrickcoleman.com is cloud and virtualization blog that brings news, tips, tricks, hacks, thoughts, stories, walk-throughs, and how-to's to people of the VMware community.Top 30 Virtualization Blogger 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014(#16) with >50,000 hits per month

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Promoted to manage Technical Marketing and lead Developer Advocacy to ensure {code} messaging and vision is framed and delivered to external and internal consumers through collateral, speaking engagements, and demos.
• Launched {code} Labs as a central location for testing projects and authored automated environment setups using Vagrant and AWS CloudFormation to quickly get started using {code} projects with Docker, Apache Mesos, and.
• Responsible for technical content on the {code} Blog that requires a vision of the engineering roadmap, developing a story that frames the message, and exploring open source trends to create new content.
• Developed the configuration generator for REX-Ray using AngularJS to dynamically create config files with ease, which allows users to quickly get started.
• Created collateral to be shared with internal sales engineers as well as external communities based on engineering projects such as technical deep-dive presentations, all encompassing and story telling presentations.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Recruited as a founding member of the EMC {code} Developer Advocacy program that has become the de-facto place for Open Source at EMC. As a team, we have focused on Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes and other infrastructure.
• Responsible for the DevHigh5 Program that entices internal and external contributors to our Open Source projects by rewarding them with recognition and swag.
• Developed a S3 migration tool using Node.js that allows files to be transferred between S3 storage endpoints removing vendor control.
• Contributed an extension framework written in Go to Docker Machine that allows customization of deployments as well as other small contributions that have been merged.
• Manage community relations via Slack, GitHub, and Twitter to connect individuals with our brand and message.
• Accepted and invited to be a break out speaker for many conferences related to containers and software development such as Docker, Ruby on Rails, and Node.js.

Richardson, Texas, US

• Promoted to Corporate Engineering as a Management & Orchestration, PaaS, IaaS, VDI, and VCE Vision SME lead for developing solutions to the entire pre-sales business unit.
• Managed a team of 3 that researched innovations, created content, and led M&O Champions.
• Consulted with Fortune 100 customers ranging from enterprise, healthcare, and partners todesign and architect solutions that completed milestones and closed pending deals.
• Published whitepapers detailing the architectural decisions as well as implications aroundutilizing VMware vCloud Director on Vblock Systems that has accrued over 30,000 downloads.
• Created a dynamic PDF tool that allows pre-sales vArchitects to build their own customizedVblock System in front of a client, that is now a part of every pre-sales engagement within VCE.
• Prepared proof of concepts within VCE labs to facilitate customer demonstration requests usingproducts such as Chef, vCenter Orchestrator, vCloud Automation Center, vCloud Director,Amazon AWS, OpenStack, Eucalyptus.

Richardson, Texas, US

• Lead as the virtualization SME on a team of 8 responsible for covering the entire US for the technical pre-sales of the Service Provider market.
• Architected and designed Vblock Systems based upon a customer’s application by calculating varying amounts of IOPS and compute requirements while keeping a customer’s budget in line.
• Presented the Vblock System value to customers while also touching on other technology areas such as BRS, DR, big data, VDI, and private, public, and hybrid cloud implementations.
• Continued education as a VMware SME to create solutions for VMware’s vCloud Director product on Vblock Systems.
• Responsible for executing the sale of the first Vblock System into a major telecom provider that was used to host Cisco HCS as well as the first international sale into Canada.

• Responsible for the maintaining the availability, security, and design of the entire infrastructure while formulating an effective and executable disaster recovery/business continuity plan.
• Redesigned an existing router on a stick network to a core architecture by implementing a Layer 3 switch that reduced the amount of hardware needed within the environment which saved an additional $3000/year for.
• Engineered and executed the migration physical servers to a virtualized infrastructure using VMware vSphere, Cisco 3750G switches, NetApp SAN, and Veeam for a completely redundant network.
• Responsible for the security of all Servers and Desktops utilizing GFI LANguard for OS patching, port scanning, hardware & software auditing, and other vulnerabilities.
• Accountable for the compliance of the IT department in regards to change management and documentation procedures to withstand semi-annual external IT audits.

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• Responsible for configuring, securing, and maintaining a network infrastructure of Cisco routers, Nortel switches, and Cisco ASAs and a virtual server environment running on VMware ESX.
• Designed and implemented a network of 9 routers in 5 cities using MPLS and point-to-point connections to create a fail-over network that established 100% LAN & WAN uptime using BGP and EIGRP routing.
• Configured and installed two Cisco ASA 5510s in different cities for network security and internet connectivity fail-over.
• Migrated an entire enterprise from a Class C subnet to a Class A subnet to fulfill the gap of constant expansion and ease of routing while also designing an internal IP management scheme using VLANs and reserved.
• Consolidated, administered, and migrated a server environment of 70 servers to 7 VMware ESX Enterprise hosts that reduced energy costs by almost 55%.
• Administered two EMC SAN devices that replicated as a DR solution while also implementing a snap shot feature that created a free backup and file-level recovery solution.Setup a monitoring system that alerts if an ESX.

Reported to the IT Manager and Team Lead for Technical Services, responsible for the technical needs of a high-pressure, deadline oriented agency.

Responsible for creating call center performance reports. Analyzed operational strengths and weaknesses for daily meeting with the General Manager.

Created a company at the University of Kentucky which gave students an economic and responsive choice in the marketplace. This successful business resulted in two technicians with a stable income, built on positive word of mouth marketing

Lexington, Kentucky, US

Reported to the Network Administrator, performed basic computer and network maintenance, providing stable and secure company workstations.