Instructor, Consultant, and Courseware Designer

John has been working in the IT industry for more than 13 years and with VMware products for 9+ years. He has earned many vendor certifications over the years, from EMC, VMWare, Microsoft, Novell, and CompTIA. His certifications include: VCP, VCI, MCSE (NT 4, Windows 2000 & 2003), MCDBA, MCT, CNA, CNE, CNI, EMCSA, Network+, and A+. He has taught, developed courses for, and consulted on many of these technologies, both for public clients and for customized, internal training for Fortune 500 companies. He has taught in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia and has met with success in each location.

His experience with virtualization began with VMware Workstation and progressed through various desktop and server products and releases, becoming a strong proponent of virtualization, especially using VMWare products.

Today, he teaches a variety of classes for various vendors, specializing in VMware's Virtual Infrastructure 3, vSphere, EMC storage and how applications (such as SQL and Exchange) can best exploit these technologies.

Language spoken: English

Currently certified to deliver:

• VI3.5: Install & Configure

• VI3.5: Deploy, Secure and Analyze (DSA)

• VI3.5: 5-day FastTrack classes

• Site Recovery Manager

• Capacity Planner

• VMware View 3 (formerly VDI)

• VMware View 4
• VMware View Design

• vSphere: What's New

• vSphere: Install, Configure and Manage
• vSphere: Troubleshooting
• vSphere: Managing Availability
• vSphere: Managing Scalability
• vSphere: FastTrack
• vSphere: Managing Performance
• vSphere: Troubleshooting