I am honored to have been selected as a VMware vExpert once again for 2021!

VMware and their vExpert Program has announced the vExpert Sub-Program announcements and I am glad to see I have been accepted into the vExpert Cloud Management group!

VMware has been working on a new program that recognizes the hard work of speakers who maintain a high feedback score over the span of previous two VMworld Conferences. I am proud to announce I have received the VMworld Distinguished Speaker Award for 2019.

VMware has been working on building an influencer program for the VMware{code} community for sometime. I am proud to announce I am one of the inaugural coaches for 2020!

I am honored to have been selected as a VMware vExpert once again for 2020! This is my eighth year as a vExpert (2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 and now 2020). It has been great to see the community grow and the amount of vExperts increase. Although I’m no longer employed at VMware I plan to still support the VMware community in any way I can. I plan to put more blogs on the personal blog this year and am excited to see folks at whichever industry events I am able to attend.

I am honored to have been selected as a VMware vExpert once again for 2018! This is my sixth year as a vExpert (2013,2014,2015,2016,2017 and 2018). It has been great to see the community grow and the amount of vExperts increase. Now that my new role will have me travelling and presenting more, I look forward to meeting up with many new and existing vExperts this year!

I am honored to have been selected as a VMware vExpert once again for 2017! This is my fifth year as a vExpert (2013,2014,2015,2016 and 2017). It has been great to see the community grow and the amount of vExperts increase. I did a quick count, and in 2016 we are up to 1464 vExperts!

I am honored to have been selected as a VMware vExpert once again for 2016! This is my fourth year as a vExpert (2013,2014,2015 and 2016). It has been great to see the community grow and the amount of vExperts increase. I did a quick count, and in 2016 we are up to 1360 vExperts! Can’t wait to see what this year brings.

I am honored to have been accepted once again as a Cisco Champion for 2016! I had a bit of a gap in blog posts this past year due to a job change. However, look forward to more posts on Cisco UCS and maybe even some Cisco ACI. I am a member of the Cisco Champions Program. Cisco Champions are passionate about Cisco and enjoy sharing our knowledge, expertise, and thoughts across the social web and with Cisco.

I have been glad to have been accepted as a PernixPro. Look forward to seeing some more FVP related content on this blog, I am honored to have this title. PernixPro™ members are an elite community of IT professionals committed to advancing FVP storage acceleration technology. By facilitating collaboration between PernixData experts and the industry’s top luminaries, PernixPro breaks down the barriers to widespread adoption of server-side storage, giving companies of all sizes a cost-effective solution for scaling storage performance independent of storage capacity.