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Mark Achtemichuk
Location: Canada
Company: VMware
URL: www.virtualizationeh.ca
Twitter: @vmMarkA
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| Mark is a VMware Performance Specialist covering the Americas. With a
strong background in datacenter infrastructures, experience implementing enterprise application environments
and a passion for solving problems, he has driven virtualization adoption and project success by methodically
bridging business with technology. His current challenge is ensuring that performance is no longer a barrier,
perceived or real, to virtualizing an organization's most critical Tier 1 applications, on their journey to the
cloud. Prior to joining VMware, he worked in the VAR community supporting and growing a virtualization practice
in western Canada. He has championed enterprise class projects that include virtual desktops, datacenter
consolidation and disaster recovery. When he iss not evangelizing virtualization, Mark can be found enjoying
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Magnus Andersson
Location: Sweden
Company: Real Time Services AB
URL: www.rtsab.com
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| Magnus has been in the IT industry since 1999 and has been focusing on
virtualization technologies since 2005. He develops virtualization architectures (including service
descriptions, designs, operation guides and validation guides) which must meet existing and new business and
functional customer requirements.
Magnus also delivers virtualization pilot studies, implementations, performance troubleshooting, health checks,
project management and VMware education.
In addition to being a VMware Certified Design Expert on both vSphere 4 and VI3, Magnus is a VMware Certified Professional on VI3 and on
vSphere4, a VMware Certified Instructor, and a VMware Certified Instructor Mentor on VI3 and vSphere4.
Before Magnus started the virtualization path he acquired solid knowledge about infrastructure components
through creating designs, performing implementations and managing operations of customer specific environments
for an outsourcing company. |
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John Arrasjid
Location: US
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
Twitter: @vcdx001
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| John is a Principal Architect at VMware specializing in Enterprise
Private Cloud (vCloud), Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and virtual datacenter architecture design. He
has over 20 years of IT and consulting experience. John regularly presents at conferences (VMworld, VMware
Partner Exchange, USENIX Association Technical Conference and USENIX LISA). John is currently on the USENIX
Board of Directors and has published two books in the SAGE Short Topics Series: “Foundation for Cloud
Computing with VMware vSphere 4” and “Deploying the VMware Infrastructure.” John is a
founding member of VMware bands Elastic Sky and The Hypervisors. John holds both VCP and VCDX certifications.
John has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from SUNY Buffalo, NY. |
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Doug Baer
Location: Southwestern US
Company: IT Partners
URL: www.goitpartners.com
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| Doug is a Principal Consultant & Virtualization practice lead at IT
Partners in Phoenix, AZ. He works with customers to architect, upgrade, and expand their virtual
infrastructures including the implementation of multi-site storage networks and array replication. His
experience spans across a variety of industries where his job responsibilities have included architecture of
directory services, network and storage infrastructure solutions, training and lab management. For the past
five years, Doug has served as a session presenter and contributor to the Perl and Powershell scripting labs at
VMworld. He was instrumental in helping to develop and present the lab curriculum. Doug earned a Bachelor of
Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Arizona in Tucson. |
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Bruno Bedette
Location: Latin America, Brazil
Company: Triple S
URL: www.triples.com.br
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| Bruno has twelve years of technology experience in infrastructure
working with blue-chip clients and on biggest virtualization projects in Brazil including implementation and
ongoing management of hardware, networking, virtualization and security in large-scale environments. And he has
six years of virtualization experience with the VMware enterprise solutions on large-scale projects including
P2V migrations, hardware utilization, application optimization and capacity planning in high-availability
environments. |
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Sachin Bhowan
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Company: Aptronics
URL: www.aptronics.co.za
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| Sachin specializes in solutions involving virtualization, disaster
recovery and enterprise backup, as well as assisting in the development of virtualization strategies and
roadmaps. In his current role, he develops architectural designs for virtual and physical infrastructures,
backup and recovery platforms, Active Directory platforms, and disaster recovery processes, while providing
input to business continuity teams. His role requires him to build pilot labs at customer or Aptronics
locations in order to validate designs proposed, and to work in conjunction with respective customer support
teams. In addition, Sachin is working with the Virtualization Team at Aptronics to enhance and develop their
virtualization consultancy practice and methodologies. |
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Mike Brown
Location: Houston, TX, US
Company: VMware
URL: www.mabrown.net/blog
Twitter: @vMikeBrown
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| Mike is a Senior Consultant in VMware's Cloud Infrastructure Professional Services Organization where he designs and implements VMware solutions for enterprise customers. He has over 14 years of industry experience. In addition to VCDX certification Mike has also achieved VCP 3, 4, and 5, VCA4-DT, VCP4-DT, Citrix CCEA, Novel CNE, Microsoft MCSE, MCTIP: EA, and NetApp NCIE certifications. Mike was also recognized as a vExpert for 2012. |
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Jason Boche
Location: Minnesota US
Company: Dell Compellent
URL: boche.net/blog
Twitter: @jasonboche
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| Jason Boche is a VMware Virtualization Product Specialist/Tactical Marketing Senior Advisor at Dell Compellent as well as an independent VMware vEvangelist in his spare time. He has worked with medium to large scale enterprise environments since 1996 and has been focusing on VMware virtualization since 2000. Jason is VCDX #34 on VI3 and vSphere 4, VCAP4-DCA, VCAP4-DCD, VCP2, VCP3, VCP4, MCSEx3, MCSAx2, CCAx2. Jason works with customers, partners, and colleagues on Dell Compellent solutions, reference architectures, design, implementation, and best practices. He is the author of a top-10 VMware blog, the vCalendar, and Technical Editor on book projects. Jason was the Minneapolis VMware User Group leader for five years and has been twice recognized as a VMware vEXPERT. |
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Pang Chen
Location: California US
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
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| Pang Chen is a Principal in the Technical Services group of VMware.
With a background in systems consulting, Pang helped build the Professional Services organization, most notably
creating the Jumpstart program of consulting services. He is focused on providing solution architecture and
implementation guidance to field SEs/consultants and customers. |
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Benham Chia
Location: Singapore
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
Twitter: @hamamao
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Benham has over 10 years of experience in the IT industry, with customer facing positions as professional service consultant and technology specialist. Proficient with enterprise infrastructure architecture design and deployment, with extensive experience on server consolidation and disaster recovery solutions. Joined VMware in December 2007 as the first Senior Consultant in ASEAN region delivering complex IT infrastructure virtualization projects, currently specializing in vCloud solutions. Previously, over 6 years of experience as an IT Specialist with IBM Global Technology Services since July 2001. Main specialization is on VMware, Citrix and Microsoft Software Services. In addition to VCDX, Benham also hold VCP1/2/3/4/5, VCAP4-DCA, VCAP4-DCD, CCEA and MCSE professional certification. |
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Chris Colotti
Location: Northeastern US
Company: VMware
URL: www.chriscolotti.us
Twitter: @CColotti
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| Chris is a Consulting Architect with the VMware vCloud Delivery Services
team with over 10 years of experience working with IT hardware and software solutions. He holds a Bachelor of
Science Degree in Information Systems from the Daniel Webster College. Prior to VMware he served a Fortune 1000
company in southern NH as a Systems Architect/Administrator, architecting VMware solutions to support new
application deployments. At VMware, in the roles of a Consultant and now Consulting Architect, Chris has guided
partners as well as customers in establishing a VMware practice and consulted on multiple customer projects ranging
from datacenter migrations to long-term residency architecture support. Currently, Chris is working on the newest
VMware vCloud solutions and architectures for enterprise-wide private cloud deployments. |
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David Coulter
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, US
Company: Sovereign Systems
URL: www.sovsystems.com
Twitter: @dcoulter_
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| David is a Principal Architect at Sovereign Systems, an Atlanta-based technology firm focused on enabling businesses to transform their operations and deliver IT as a Service. With over 16 years of IT experience, David has designed, implemented and supported enterprise-class data center solutions that comprise desktop, server, storage, network, security and virtualization technologies. David has expertise in infrastructure and applications, local and multi-site high availability design, database virtualization, data center migrations, ITIL, and enterprise management solutions. In addition to his infrastructure expertise, David has an enterprise Java development background. He is passionate about automation and orchestration solutions and often incorporates vCenter Orchestrator into his designs. In addition to VCDX, David has obtained ITIL, MCSE, and Java programming certifications. |
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David Convery
Location: Mid-Atlantic US
Company: CDW
URL: www.Tech-tap.com
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| David has been working with virtualization since 2002 and has been in consulting since 2005. During that time, he has participated in many assessment, planning, design and implementation engagements. Previous to consulting, he worked at a major disaster recovery services company, where he assisted in recoveries during disasters such as 9/11, and hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He has worked in technology since 1998. David is currently a VMware Certified Design Expert in VI3 and vSphere 4 and VMware Certified Professional in VI2, VI3, vSphere 4 and vSphere 5. He was also awarded the VMware vExpert designation for 2009 and 2010. David also holds several certifications from Cisco HP, RedHat, Citrix, and Brocade. |
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Matt Cowger
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Company: EMC
URL: blog.cowger.us
Twitter: @mcowger |
| Matt has been working in Unix/Linux, virtualization and storage design for over 10 years in both public and private sectors. He currently specializes in virtualization and storage design for demanding workloads, including VMware, Oracle and other clustered infrastructures. Matt is currently a Senior vSpecialist for EMC designing and building the future of cloud computing, and looks forward to another 10 years of building (and breaking and fixing) high-end systems. |
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Richard Damoser
Location: Germany
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
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| Richard started working in information technology in 1998 while
studying civil engineering at Technische Universität München. He has a background in systems
engineering, with concentrations in databases, IT operations, integration, and outsourcing. Since joining the
Professional Services Organization at VMware in 2004, Richard has led numerous engagements for in
telecommunications, financial, and insurance comapnies. Currently, Richard is responsible for managing VMware
alliances with global system integrators. He devotes his spare time to evangelizing and developing the VCDX
program. |
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Aidan Dalgleish
Location: UK
Company: VMware
URL: www.vcloudscape.com
Twitter: @AidersD
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Aidan Dalgleish is a Consulting Architect working for the VMware EMEA Cloud Centre of Excellence (CoE), having joined the VMware Professional Services Organisation (PSO) in 2007. He has over 11 years broad experience in the IT industry, the majority in technical consulting positions, and has been working with VMware solutions since 2005. During this time in VMware PSO he was regarded as a specialist in the use of the vSphere PowerCli for developing custom solutions, including the development of multi-site DR implementations. More recently, following the move to the EMEA Cloud CoE, he has specialised in the design and development of VMware vCloud Director solutions. Prior to joining VMware he worked for Prudential Assurance and Computer Sciences Corporation. |
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Frank Denneman
Location: The Netherlands
Company: VMware
URL: frankdenneman.nl
Twitter: @frankdenneman
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| Frank Denneman is a Senior Consultant with VMware Professional
Services. He has been working in IT since 1997 and has been implementing enterprise-wide VMware solutions since
2005. Frank is currently a VMware Certified Design Expert on VI3 and VMware Certified Professional on VI2, VI3
and vSphere 4. Prior to VMware, he worked for DTX consultancy & services where he advised multiple Fortune
500 companies on large-scale infrastructure design and deployment projects. Frank specializes in resource
management, storage virtualization, and he is a subject matter expert of VMware vCloud technologies.
Frank’s blog, http://frankdenneman.nl, is considered one of the top 15 technical virtualization blogs in
the world. |
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Shridhar Deuskar
Location: US
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
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| Shridhar Deuskar is a Technical Solution Architect with VMware,
crafting solutions to deliver datacenter transformation, optimization and a real time infrastructure.
Throughout his career at VMware, EMC, and HP, he has demonstrated expert level knowledge of and extensive
implementation experience with a wide variety of information technologies including networking, storage,
various operating systems, database management systems, and management frameworks. He is a graduate of the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the College of Engineering Pune. Currently, Shridhar advises the
development of integrated infrastructure packages as a VMware representative in the Virtual Computing
Environment (VCE) Coalition. |
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Duncan Epping
Location: The Netherlands
Company: VMware
URL: www.yellow-bricks.com
Twitter: @DuncanYB |
| Duncan Epping is a Consulting Architect working for the VMware vCloud
Services team. Duncan works primarily with Service Providers and Enterprise customers. He is focused on
designing cloud infrastructures and specializes in cloud computing (vCloud), business continuity, disaster
recovery, and VMware HA. Duncan is the founder of Yellow-Bricks.com, an industry leading VMware/virtualization
blog. He also is an active contributor and moderator on the VMTN Community. Recently, Duncan has co-authored
two books: vSphere Quick Start Guide and Foundation for Cloud Computing with VMware vSphere
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Michael Francis
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
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| Michael Francis is a Staff Systems Engineer with VMware. He has been
working in IT since 1995 and has been implementing enterprise-wide VMware solutions since 2004. Michael is
currently a VMware Certified Design Expert on VI3 and VMware Certified Professional on VI2, VI3 and vSphere 4.
Prior to VMware, he worked for varying Australian systems integrators where he was technical lead on projects
in both the private and public sector across VMware and Microsoft technology stacks. Michael is currently a
Subject Matter Expert on Virtual Desktop and vSphere technologies. |
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Mark Gabryjelski
Location: Greater Boston, US
Company: Worldcom Exchange, Inc
URL: www.wei.com
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| Since 1996, Mark Gabryjelski has been involved in design and integration of solutions for clients in all markets. With a focus on datacenter optimization, he has worked with companies across all aspects of business. Mark has been leading the virtualization trend since 2001 nationally, with a focus in the Northeast corridor. He continues to be be on the bleeding edge of solutions involving network, storage, server, operating system, and application virtualization. Mark is currently the Virtualization Practice Manager at Worldcom Exchange.
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Ryan Grendahl
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Company: Datalink
URL: www.datalink.com
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Ryan Grendahl brings over 13 years of industry experience to Datalink, where he is a solutions engineer specializing
in datacenter virtualization solutions and services for Fortune 500 companies. Ryan consults with IT organizations,
designs and implements new, large-scale solutions, as well as optimizes existing virtualized infrastructures. He
plays an instrumental role in defining Datalink’s virtualization design and implementation best practices, as well
as training and mentoring his peers. VMware-centric for the past five years, Ryan holds certifications from multiple
areas in IT. His previous experience administering a large VMware environment made him a VMware enthusiast.
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Andrew Hald
Location: US
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmxl.com
Twitter: @vmxl
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| Andrew Hald is a Consulting Architect with the VMware Practice
Development, Services Engineering team and is among the first VMware Certified Design Experts (VCDX) worldwide.
Andrew has fifteen years of infrastructure systems management experience across multiple industries and
disciplines. He has spent the last seven years architecting the world’s largest enterprise VMware
deployments and is an active contributor to emerging cloud architecture frameworks and practices. Andrew has
extensive expertise in datacenter automation, service continuity, server and infrastructure operations, and
advanced administration of VMware Infrastructure. He is a well-respected leader and tech-evangelist within the
VMware community and is a regular speaker at customer symposiums, user groups and the annual VMworld
conference. |
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Johannes Hanekom
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Company: Datacentrix
URL:
www.datacentrix.co.za
Twitter: @JannieHanekom
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| Jannie is the go-to guy for all things virtual infrastructure at VMware consulting
partner, Datacentrix. Working alongside a seasoned crew of architects of various specialities, he battles on
the technical pre-sales and consultancy fronts – while also working with implementation teams to design, plan
and deploy sustainable solutions. He has a broad background in storage, networking, platform and managed
infrastructure with a focus on HP/Microsoft. Formally in IT since 1996, Jannie started focusing on VMware
technologies when he joined Datacentrix in 2004. |
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Wade Holmes
Location: US
Company: VMware
URL: www.vwade.com
Twitter: @wholmes |
| Wade is a Solutions Architect at VMware, specializing in Cloud Management and Security. He has over 14 years of experience planning, designing, engineering, architecting and supporting complex computing environments of all scopes and sizes. Wade became a VCP in 2005, as a member of IBM’s Business Continuity and Resiliency Services. During this time he spearheaded the design and rollout of IBM BCRS’s first x86 virtualization based warm-site disaster recovery offering across the US. In 2009, Wade became the first non-VMware employee to achieve the VCDX certification. He also holds many other technical certifications including: VCP4, VCP3, VCP2, CISSP, NCIE, NCDA, MCP, DRI Associate Business Continuity Professional, Falconstor Certified Engineer, and Virtuozzo Certified Engineer. Wade is a member of the Center for Internet Security ESX security benchmark panel, and helped to author the CIS ESX 3.5 Security benchmark. Wade holds a Bachelors degree in Information Technology and a Masters Degree in Information Assurance. |
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Kyle Husted
Location: Austin, TX
Company: Dell
URL: www.dell.com
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| Kyle Husted is a support engineer in the Services division of Dell,
where he specializes in troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving VMware escalations for both internal and
external customers. Kyle also assists in knowledge assessment and training of support staff, architecture and
deployment of virtual solutions, and is often leveraged by other Dell organizations to assist with VMware
projects. Kyle has been VMware certified since 2005 and holds certifications from other vendors such as
Microsoft, Redhat, and Novell. |
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Kevin James
Location: UK
Company: Capgemini UK
URL: www.uk.capgemini.com
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| After over 15 years working in IT I remain passionate about the ongoing possibilities offered by virtualisation. For me, it is the most exciting, rewarding and limitless technology to be involved in.
My previous position as a Senior Consultant at VMware allowed me to develop the extremely strong knowledge and experience foundation that earned my position as Virtualisation SME at Capgemini.
My role at Capgemini as an Architect /Virtualisation SME allows me to use my virtualisation skills and knowledge to find more effective, innovative and cheaper solutions for our clients, ensuring that Capgemini continues to be a market leader.
Gaining my VCDX qualification was a huge personal and professional achievement for me and earns the respect and confidence of Capgemini’s clients and the wider IT community.
I plan a long and evolving career in virtualisation and associated technology and am keen to ensure that my knowledge and skills remain at the cutting edge of the constantly evolving and exciting technology.
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Sean Jennings
Location: US
Company: Virtustream, Inc.
URL: www.virtustream.com
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| Sean has over 20 years of experience enabling commercial and government
enterprises of all sizes togain efficiencies and competitive advantage through the design and deployment of
creative, forward-looking IT solutions. He has earned numerous certifications from industry leaders Novell,
Microsoft, EMC, HP/Compaq/DEC, Checkpoint, and VMware–long before they became fashionable. Building on an
extensive background in financial services IT, Sean joined National Cooperative Bank in 1999 as Vice President
and Systems Architect, with responsibility for disaster and began to investigate new approaches that leveraged
virtualization technologies. In 2001, Sean co-founded Brigh Technologies, Inc., with fellow vCDX Matt Theurer,
to further develop disaster recovery solutions and promote Virtualization technologies. Brigh Technologies was
a thought leader in the application of Virtualization solutions and one of VMware’s first authorized
consulting partners. In 2009, Brigh Technologies merged with Virtustream, Inc., a leading provider of
professional services, cloud platforms, and managed services around Vmware products. |
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Mostafa Khalil
Location: US
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
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| Mostafa Khalil has been with VMware since April 1999. He has worked
with various VMware products since VMware Workstation for Linux 1.0 beta. Interestingly, Mostafa has a medical
degree (M.B.B.Ch.) from his native country (Egypt) in addition to his industry certifications: VCP2,VCP3, VCP4,
VCDX3, HP ASE, MCSE, Novell Master CNE, IBM CSE, and Lotus CLP. You can often find Mostafa presenting at
VMworld, Partner Exchange, and VMware User Groups. |
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Chris Kranz
Location: United Kingdom
Company: Kelway
URL: www.wafl.co.uk
Twitter: @ckranz
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Chris Kranz started life as a new media developer in the late ’90s before moving onto web development and then systems administration. Finally he found himself settling in as a storage and virtualisation consultant in 2005. Chris worked on the first ESX deployment with ESX 2.5 and got his VCP shortly afterwards. He has maintained this through VCP3 and 4 and later expanded this to VCAP, VTSP and even VSP. Chris keeps a strong emphasis on storage architect holding both NetApp NCDA and NCIE. The VCDX journey has helped put together a structured virtualisation methodology and services catalogue. He is now working as the Principal Solutions Architect at Kelway and helping to guide customers through their Cloud journey. |
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Thomas Kraus
Location: Northeastern US
Company: VMware
URL: www.cloudactual.com
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Thomas Kraus is an early adopter and pioneer in VMware technologies, with 9 years of experience in the architecture,
troubleshooting, and optimization of complex virtual infrastructure environments, beginning with ESX 1.5. Thomas is
a subject matter expert on VMware solutions with a focus on enterprise storage and network integration. Thomas
maintains expertise with related technologies that are complimentary to virtualization including storage,
application, and I/O virtualization. His relevant certifications include NetApp SVAP, RHCE, VCP3 & VCP4, and VCDX3 &
VCDX4. Thomas is an Enterprise Cloud Solution Architect within the Cloud Practice at VMware and works with customers
on the rationalization, integration, and architecture of Private and Hybrid Cloud. Before coming to VMware, Thomas
was the founder of Axial Solutions, a solutions based consulting company focused on virtualization and cloud
computing in the NY Metro area.
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Jason Langone
Location: Virginia, USA
Company: MicroTech
URL: www.ThinkVIRT.com
Twitter: @langonej
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| Jason Langone has been heavily involved with virtualization
implementations for the last 7+ years. Langone spoke at VMWorld 2006, won the VMware Vanguard Award in 2007 for
Best Disaster Recovery Solution, spoke at CES Government 2010 and has been featured in various publications.
Langone, a VMware vExpert, also founded the Washington DC Metro VMUG.
Langone has successfully implemented large-scale virtualization, VDI and cloud solutions for both government
agencies and Fortune 500 organizations.
Langone currently runs the Virtualization, Cloud and Storage division at MicroTech, a Service-Disabled
Veteran-Owned and 8(a) small business based in Vienna, VA. MicroTech was named America’s fastest growing
hispanic-owned business in both 2009 and 2010.
Langone has been involved in virtualization projects in most regions including North America, Europe, Middle
East, Asia and Australia.
Langone holds multiple clearances and supports all geographies. |
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Willy Lee
Location: Sydney, Australia
Company: Dimension Data
URL: www.dimensiondata.com
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| Willy Lee is a specialist in business continuity and data management
within virtualized environments. She has 15 years of experience in IT and seven years of experience consulting
on VMware technology based architecture design and implementation (VCP 213: VCP2/VCP3/VCP4). Willy has
experience on multiple platforms and is certified in other areas such as BCFP,RHCE MCSE, CCNA, CSA, Symantec
STS backup/archiving, and Comvault CA/CE. |
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Lane Leverett
Location: Roseville, CA
Company: ENS Inc.
URL: wolfbrthr.wordpress.com
Twitter: @wolfbrthr
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| Lane brings over 13 years of IT and consulting experience to his job at
ENS where he works as a Senior Systems Engineer designing and implementing solutions for customers. Lane's
primary focus is on virtualization solutions but also brings to bear a wealth of experience with Networking,
Storage, and Microsoft solutions as well. Lane holds the following certifications in addition to his VCDX:
Microsoft MCSE on NT4, 2000, and 2003, Cisco CCNA, DCUCI, and DCUCD, NetApp SVAP, and VMware VCP 3/4, VSP, and
VTSP. |
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Scott Lowe
Location: Eastern US
Company: EMC
URL: blog.scottlowe.org
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| An industry veteran of almost 17 years, Scott brings a range of
technical skills combined with outstanding communication skills. In addition, to VCDX, Scott is a VCP2, VCP3,
VCP4, VSP4, and VTSP4. Scott's blog, http://blog.scottlowe.org, is consistently recognized as one of the top
technical virtualization blogs, and Scott was a very early contributor to the Planet V12n blog aggregator.
Scott is also a published author; his first book, Mastering VMware vSphere 4, is a best seller. Scott
currently works with EMC Corporation as a technology consultant specializing in EMC, Cisco, and VMware
solutions. For his work supporting the VMware community, Scott has was also awarded a VMware vExpert
award. |
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Brad Maltz
Location: Northeastern US
Company: International Computerware
URL: www.iciamerica.com
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| Brad Maltz is the CTO for International Computerware, a leading IT
infrastructure consulting company focused on Datacenter Solutions and Cloud Enablement. As ICI’s CTO and
lead consultant he has focused on many different technologies such as Server and Desktop Virtualization, Cloud
Computing, Datacenter Design and Architecture, ITIL Design and many others. Brad is an accomplished author who
has been published at TechTarget.com as well as other sites. During the past 10 years he has worked for
companies such as EMC, Storability, and Data General. |
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Stanimir Markov
Location: Czech Republic
Company: IBM
URL: www.ibm.com
Twitter: @sferk
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| Stan is the leader of VMware Center of Excellence in IBM Global Services and a core member of IBM virtualization development team. He leads the virtualization efforts in large scale transformation projects, including datacenter moves, cross country migrations and massive server virtualization and consolidation for enterprise customers.
Involvement in IBM virtualization development and best practice groups gave him a key role in defining VMware standards across IBM Global Delivery.
Along his work on design, implementation and support of complex virtual infrastructures, Stan, being a VMware Certified Instructor, is keen on sharing the knowledge by delivering authorized VMware classes. He also holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science, is certified in Microsoft and Citrix technologies and ITIL. |
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Andrea Mauro
Location: Italy
Company: Assyrus
URL: www.assyrus.it
Twitter: @Andrea_Mauro
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| Andrea has been working in IT since 1996, and he has been in the
virtualization field since 2005. Since 2000, he has worked for Assyrus Srl, an IT services Italian company and
a VMware partner. Assyrus has conducted over 250 virtualization projects; Andrea has been a part of over 100 of
them. He follows projects from the pre-sale phase through to the solution launch. His VMware product experience
spans: VMware ESX and ESXi, VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.5, VMware vSphere 4.0, VMware Converter, VMware
Site Recovery Manager, and VMware View. In addition, Andrea has hands-on experience working with enterprise
storage technologies such as FC, ISCSI SAN, and NFS. Andrea holds multiple technical certifications and
accreditations from VMware (VCDX3, VCP3, VCP4, VSP3, VSP4, VSTP3, VSTP4), Microsoft (MCP, MCSA, MCSE, MCTS,
MCITP), Citrix (CCA, CCSP), EMC (Proven Professional - EMCPA), and Symantec (STS, SSP, SSE, SSE+). |
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Andrew Mitchell
Location: Australia
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
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| Andrew is a Consulting Architect with VMware Professional Services
based in the APAC region. He has over 10 years of experience working with VMware products and has been a VMware
Certified Professional since 2006. His virtualization design experience spans telecommunications, government
and finance sectors. In addition, he possesses eight years infrastructure architecture experience and seven
years enterprise in application development, packaging, and support. |
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Jason Nash
Location: US
Company: Varrow
URL: jasonnash.wordpress.com
Twitter: @nash_j
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| Jason Nash has over 15 years of industry experience and is currently a
Sr. Solutions Architect at Varrow, a leader in virtualization, storage, and DR located in the Carolinas.
Before Varrow, Jason was a Platform Architect in Wachovia’s Corporate & Investment Bank where he helped to
develop the organization’s IT strategy. He has published several books on networking, Windows, and Linux. Jason
was designated a vExpert for and holds a BS in Networking Technology and a MS in Information Security. His
list of industry certifications include: VCP4, CISSP, RHCE, MCSE, CCNP, and others. You can often find Jason
evangelizing virtualization technologies at user groups, conferences, and other events. |
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Andrew Nelson
Location: US
Company: VMwares
URL: www.vmware.com
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| Andrew is a VMware BCDR and tier 1 application specialist based in the
western US. With a deep background in storage, performance and availability, he has over 14 years of IT
experience. Prior to joining VMware, he worked as the virtualization architect for the USMC and has focused
his time working on enterprise accounts across the DoD, civilian and private sectors. |
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Paul Nothard
Location: UK
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
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| Paul Nothard is a Senior Consultant within VMware's professional
services organisation having joined in 2006. He has fifteen years broad IT experience, much of it within the
investment banking IT sector, where he specialised in business relevant Unix solutions within large-scale data
centres. Combining a deep technical background in operating system design with business acumen he has a string
of proven business project successes. Prior to VMware he worked within Intel's data centre of the future
practice specialising in large scale data centre design projects with a particular emphasis on virtualisation
and Its effect on data centre power and thermal design. He obtained a Computer Science degree from the
Edinburgh University school of Informatics. |
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Peter Oberacher
Location: Austria
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
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| Peter works as a Consultant for the VMware PSO EMEA team. He has been working in the IT industry since 1994 and, before joining VMware in 2008, he developed a solid knowledge in SAN Design, Security, Linux and LAN techniques. Within the Central EMEA PSO team Peter has designed several virtual environments and implemented some large-scale Lab Manager solutions. Currently Peter is focusing on Infrastructure and Operations Management. |
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Hugo Phan
Location: London, UK
Company: VMware
URL: vmwire.com
Twitter: @hugophan
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| Hugo Phan is a Managing Consultant with VMware Professional Services in the Northern EMEA region. He manages a team of Senior Consultants and leads VMware and customer teams in delivering cloud solutions, large consolidation, data centre migration and disaster recovery projects. He also delivers operational readiness projects to ensure that his customers have the capability to routinely provision, consume, and operate virtual infrastructure to deliver services to the business in compliance with their IT Governance. As well as holding the VSP, VTSP and VCDX certifications from VMware, Hugo is also certified in Microsoft, NetApp and ITIL certifications. He is also a Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. |
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Russell Pope
Location: US
Company: 4Base Technology
URL: www.4basetech.com
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| Russell brings 15 years of computing experience to his Consultant role
at 4Base Technology with a focus on platform virtualization. As a member of 4Base’s Virtualization
Practice, Russell is able to leverage his strong experience in all three pillars of server virtualization
architecture; systems, networking and storage. Russell is well versed with real-world experience in all
practical aspects of the virtualization lifecycle including planning, architecture, implementation, operations
and deployment-specific documentation. Russell maintains current subject matter expertise with vendors and
technologies that include HP, Dell, Brocade, NetApp, EMC, HDS and Symantec. This extended knowledge base has
enabled Russell to successfully assist numerous customers in designing, deploying and troubleshooting their
virtualization environments. Projects to Russell’s credit include the Design & Virtual Architecture
for the largest online payment transaction company in the world, as well as the VI Upgrade implementation for
one of the largest film animation studios in Hollywood. |
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Tom Ralph
Location: Colorado, US
URL: www.virtualserverguy.com
Twitter: @TomRalph |
| Tom Ralph is firm believer in VMware technologies and an early adopter,
with 8 years experience in architecture, optimization and troubleshooting of complex virtual envronments dating
back to ESX 2.5. In addition, to VCDX, Tom is a MCITP, VCP3, VCP4 and CCA. |
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Fabio Rapposelli
Location: San Marino
Company: Cinetica s.r.l.
URL: www.cinetica.it
Twitter: @fabiorapposelli |
| Fabio is a passionate virtualization and storage specialist with 10
years of IT and consulting experience. He currently leads a team of knowledgeable system engineers and
architects that provides IT consultancy to small and medium enterprises all around Italy, and coordinates
national and international projects for his customers. A long time UNIX architect, he started doing designs on
VMware products in 2004 and deployed his virtualization projects in both Europe and US, He delivers
high-performance storage architectures for demanding customers in the manufacturing and banking sectors.
Fabio holds the following certifications and accreditations in addition to his VCDX3: VCP3, VCP4, VTSP3, VSP3,
NCDA, NCIE, Hitachi Storage Integration Specialist, Compellent Storage Architect, Equallogic Storage Specialist
and ACSE.
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Thomas Reichenberger
Location: Munich, Germany
Company: ACP
URL: www.acp.de
Twitter: @propeller06 |
| Thomas is a Consulting Architect working with ACP IT Solutions AG,
located in Munich, Germany. He leads their Virtualization Competence Center, covering all aspects of
virtualization trends and technologies. He is the first non-VMware employee to achieve the VCDX certification
in Europe. Thomas published the "Best Practice Security Guideline for VMware Infrastructure" on the
websites of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). He holds multiple technical
certifications and accreditations from VMware (VCDX#28, VCP4/3/2), Microsoft (MCTS Win2008, MCSE Win2003 /
Win2000 / WinNT40:Security:Messaging) and many other technical certifications including Citrix, Cisco, HP, IBM,
Datacore, CommVault, Symantec, PGP, RSA, McAfee and ITIL certifications. Thomas is also a Certified Information
Systems Auditor (CISA) and works as a Senior IT Auditor. He has experience with more than 100 national and
international audits. |
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Daniel Rethmeier
Location: Frankurt am Main, Germany
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com |
| Daniel Rethmeier works as a Consulting Architect for the PSO team in
Germany. Since earning Diploma degree in Computer Science from the University of Frankfurt am Main, he has been
working with advanced concepts of distributed computing. Before joining VMware in 2007, he worked for EMC as a
Solutions Architect. Within the Central EMEA PSO team, Daniel is the SME for cloud computing . Currently he
supports the cloud computing acitivities at SAP. |
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Jean-Francois Richard
Location: Canada
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
Twitter: @jfrichard22
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| Jean-Francois is a Technical Account Manager (TAM) for VMware and is
based in Canada. He brings over ten years of experience as a consulting architect, working with VMware
partners. He leads large-scale virtual infrastructure design projects for key customers and government
accounts. |
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Craig Risinger
Location: New York/New Jersey, USA
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
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| Craig Risinger is a Consulting Architect who has been with VMware since 2004. His previous experience includes running help desks and small-shop all-around IT system administration. With VMware, he has helped design virtualization infrastructures and operations for everything from small shops to defense contractors to Fortune 50 financial enterprises. His particular interests include performance management, storage design, and delivering clear and precise technical writing and training. |
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Ken Schroeder
Location: North Carolina, USA
Company: Cisco systems, Inc.
URL: www.cisco.com
Twitter: @ken_schroeder
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Ken is a Member of Technical Staff at Cisco Systems. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the
University of Pittsburgh and has completed a number of IT certifications including CCNA, RHCE3, VCDX3, VCP2, VCP3,
and VCP4. He has been working in the IT field since 1996 and started architecting ESX solutions for Cisco IT in
2005. Since then he has continued to lead compute virtualization design and evolved that architecture into Cisco’s
private cloud offering. Ken also runs early field trials on pre-release Cisco datacenter products providing feedback
directly to engineering and integrating them into the IT solution stack.
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Rick Scherer
Location: San Diego, CA
Company: EMC
URL: www.emc.com/powerof3
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| Rick Scherer is an Advisory Technology Consultant in the VCE Alliances
team at EMC Corporation as well as the founder of VMwareTips.com. He one of many in a great team of
Virtualization Experts that support VMware, Cisco, EMC, their partners and their customers in developing and
troubleshooting solutions around virtualization and cloud computing. Rick obtained his first VMware Certified
Processional (VCP) Certification in VMware ESX 2 in 2006. He has since designed virtual environments for
customers large and small, deploying well over 500 ESX hosts and environments supporting over 5,000 virtual
machines--including environments supporting business critical applications such as SAP, SQL, and Exchange. |
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Jonathan Shannon
Location: Boston, MA
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
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Jonathan has been working with VMware technology since 2000. Prior to joining VMware, Jonathan implemented VMware
technology to deploy multi-tier mobile server environments for social networking corporate events at nTAG
Interactive, Inc. Jonathan joined VMware’s Professional Services Team in 2008 and is now a Senior Consultant for
the Northeast Region. Jonathan’s proficiency is based around end-user computing architecture. Jonathan has worked
on various engagements specifically around vSphere architecture and View / ThinApp implementations. His experience
includes; demonstrating the ability to discuss, architect, design, and convey complex environments with customers
and the representation in a virtual infrastructure. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Computer
Engineering from Suffolk University.
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Rupen Sheth
Location: USA
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
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Rupen Sheth has extensive experience delivering enterprise business solutions and virtualization solutions through the effective application of information technology, process management, and coordination and management of multidisciplinary teams. Rupen started at VMware as a senior consultant delivering the complete portfolio of VMware products and services, and then moved into a solutions architect role and was involved in developing various service enablement assets like assessments, health check, plan and design. Rupen is currently responsible for monetizing and scaling of solutions and services, and manages a team of solution architects responsible for creating IP and enablement assets for solutions and services in the areas of virtual/cloud infrastructure, management, security, and operational readiness. Prior to VMware, Rupen worked at KPMG Consulting, Citicorp, American Airlines, and US Department of Energy. Rupen holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin. In addition to VCDX, Rupen is also TOGAF and ITIL certified.
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Harley Stagner
Location: Virginia, USA
Company: TBL Networks, Inc.
URL: theblinkylight.com/category/
virtualization-blog/
Twitter: @hstagner |
| Harley is an IT veteran of almost 12 years. In addition to the VCDX,
Harley holds the VCP3 and VCP4 certifications. An accomplished author, Harley has published virtualization
architecture and design related works for the Techtarget.com family of sites and for Apress. Harley currently
works with TBL Networks, Inc. where he helps clients realize the true benefits of virtual datacenter
architecture. Harley holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from ECPI Technical College
and a Masters of Business Administration from Strayer University. |
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Christain Strijbos
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
Company: SVA GmbH
URL: www.sva.de
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Christian Strijbos is a Senior IT Architect with SVA GmbH in Germany. Christian provides advice to customers in
architecting, upgrading, and expanding their virtual infrastructures. He has been working in IT for 11 years and
started with his first virtualization experiences in 2002. During his work for different Companies he designed and
developed solutions for small, midsize and enterprise customers. For many of the customers, he made custom build
software to integrate the virtualization n platform with the internal processes of the customers. Also he has
developed some free tools for VMware virtual infrastructures.
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Matt Theurer
Location: North America
Company: Virtustream, Inc.
URL: www.virtustream.com
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| Matt has been designing and deploying IT solutions for 20 years,
architecting IT solutions to solve real world challenges for companies ranging in size from tens of users to
tens of thousands of users. He was one of the first individuals ever certified on Vmware’s virtualization
platform and holds many industry certifications including certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and EMC. Matt
began his career working for the Federal Government designing “Smart” building solutions and went
on to become a senior systems engineer for CIS Global and VirtuaLogic, Inc. In 2001, Matt co-founded Brigh
Technologies, Inc., which specialized in disaster recovery and highly available systems architectures, with
with VCDX Sean Jennings. Matt served as President, CIO, and Principal Consultant with Brigh Technologies. In
2009, Brigh Technologies joined Virtustream, an infrastructure services firm that provides professional
services, cloud services, and managed services. Matt studied Electrical Engineering at the University of
Maryland. |
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Alexander Thoma
Location: Germany
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
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| Alexander has been working in the IT industry for more than 12 years,
10 years of which he spent in professional services positions. Working with demanding customers on developing
corporate standards for virtualization platforms has been his daily work for the last four years as part of the
VMware Professional Services organization. In 2007, Alexander was received the EMEA PSO employee-of-the-year
award for jumping into a large at-risk project and being a key contributor to the solution design that led to
the project turnaround and successful implementation. Currently, Alexander is serving as a Consulting Architect
with a focus on enterprise desktop solutions. |
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Kenneth van Ditmarsch
Location: The Netherlands
Company: Van Ditmarsch Consultancy
URL: virtualkenneth.com
Twitter: @virtualkenneth |
| Kenneth has over 21 years of IT experience, and he has been designing, implementing and
validating VMware infrastructure environments since 2005, including more than a year as a VMware employee. He has focused on twin datacenter solutions, disaster
recovery and high availability. His design and implementation experience is concentrated in the health care,
government and insurance sectors. In addition to the VCDX certification, Kenneth has also achieved the
following certifications: VCP4, VCP3, VCP2, HP ISS c-Class, PRINCE2, LPIC-1 and MCTS. Kenneth posts his latest
virtualization discoveries on his blog at virtualkenneth.com. |
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Kees van Vloten
Location: The Netherlands
Company: Acredion
URL: www.acredion.com
Twitter: @KeesVanVloten
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| Kees is an architect of enterprise infrastructures, with extensive
experience in virtualization, information security, networking and Linux/Unix. He specializes in
automation/orchestration and Cloud Computing. With a Master's degree in Computer Science and over 17 years
career experience in IT, Kees has highly developed consultancy skills and is adept at acting as a liaison
between engineering and managerial teams within global institutions.
While serving as a Virtualization Architect at ING, Kees led the original VMware Virtual Infrastructure design
and implementation projects, as well as the upgrade to VMware vSphere 4.1. The vSphere 4.1 deployment is
targeted for HP and Cisco blades and makes extensive use of VMware vCenter Orchestrator for operational process
automation.
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Nicolas Vermande
Location: Luxembourg/France
Company: Telindus Luxembourg
URL: www.telindus.lu
Twitter: @nvermande |
| Nicolas has been working with virtualization technologies for the last
6 years. Currently, he's working at Telindus Luxembourg as Support Engineer and Virtualization Architect. His
other interests are in GNU/Linux systems, storage and Cisco technologies. He's driving his customers on the
road to virtualization, providing them DR, storage and network solutions. His design and implementation
experience is mainly focused on the banking, insurance and government sectors. |
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Kamau Wanguhu
Location: Netherlands
Company: VMware, Inc.
URL: www.borgcube.com
Twitter: @borgcube_
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Kamau is a Consulting Architect at VMware specializing in Service Provider Cloud (vCD) architectures, and network virtualization. Kamau has over 15 years of IT infrastructure experience under his belt having worked with everything between small backend banking infrastructures all the way to large multi-tier internet banking infrastructures. While at VMware, Kamau has recently responsible for the architecture of some of the largest US service providers vCloud implementations. On top of his speaking engagements at various VMware events such as VMworld and Partner Exchange, Kamau now spends most of his time looking at virtualization futures, especially with regard to virtualized networks and how to get them to scale. |
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Michael Webster
Location: New Zealand
Company: IT Solutions 2000 Ltd
URL: www.longwhiteclouds.com
Twitter: @vcdxnz001
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Michael is the owner of IT Solutions 2000 Ltd delivering project management, operational readiness and technical architecture consulting services to enterprise and service provider clients. He has been using VMware products since 1998 and has been deploying ESX solutions since 2002. He specializes in designing virtualization solutions for Unix to Linux migrations, business critical applications, disaster avoidance, public and private cloud, and mergers and acquisitions. Michael has been in the IT industry since 1995 and consulting since 2001. In addition to VCDX4/5 he holds VCP2/4/5, VCAP4/5-DCD, VCAP4-DCA, VCA4-DT, ITIL Foundation, MCP+I, and MCSE (NT4 – 2K3).
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Alex Weiss
Location: Australia
Company: Accenture
URL: www.accenture.com
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| Alex is currently a Solution Architect at Accenture, where he provides
consulting services to Accenture clients and Accenture bid teams with a focus on virtualization and cloud. In
addition, Alex works with the Accenture sales community in developing virtualization and cloud business across
the APAC region. Alex has 7+ years of deep virtualization enterprise experience covering technical, strategic,
operational and commercial areas. Previous to his current role at Accenture, Alex worked as a Virtualization
Architect at a global systems integrator and outsourcer. |
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Gang Zhang
Location: Singapore
Company: VMware
URL: www.vmware.com
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| Zhang Gang has over 15 years of industry experience and is currently a Senior Consultant with VMware Professional Services based in the ASEAN region. He has been a VMware Certified Professional since 2005. He has expert experience in the design, implementation and operation of large-scale infrastructure projects and services with VMware technologies. Responsible for providing customers technical leadership in the architecture design and implementation of VMware products and technologies. Zhang Gang holds the following certifications in addition to his VCDX: VMware VCP 2/3/4/5 and Microsoft MCSE Messaging 2003. |
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