I am a senior Training Architect, specializing in educating and informing customers and attendees of my talks on Open Source technologies. I am concentrating currently on learning management systems, technical and presentation coaching and building online training featuring hands-on labs for my employer, A Cloud Guru.I have extensive experience as a Sales Engineer, Pre-Sales Engineer and Technical Enablement Engineer supporting Sales, Sales Engineer and Technical Education and Enablement teams. I can build, rebuild, revitalize and drive customer demand to any program and product I take on. I take very complex ideas and make them understandable to sales, technical, partner and customer constituencies. I am an extremely experienced and engaging presenter, able to work with any type or level of audience or community.I'm the author of the current Pearson Press CompTIA Linux+ / LPIC-1 Cert Guide. I have authored the historical LPIC I Exam Cram 2, and have been the technical editor of over a dozen technical books, including the LPIC-2 Cert Guide by Pearson Press. My course authorship includes several dozen titles for public, private and custom courses. I have given many thousands of hours of instructor-led training, online training (including webinars) on a diverse set of technical topics and am skilled in making online presentations exciting and engaging. I develop technical content for online training, have experience with various LMS (Learning Management Systems) including Instructure Canvas, Moodle, Totara LMS, Open edX and several others.Specialties: Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, Totara, Moodle, Linux and Open Source, Community and Membership Management, Customer Engagement, Online Teaching, Webinar Management, Technical Promotion, Technical Marketing, Customer Sales Conversion, Social Media Marketing, Sales Engineering, Pre-Sales Engineering, Knowledge Management, Onboarding, Training and Development.