Looking back over the past four months I can say 2012 has been one of the best years for me both professionally and personally. Professionally back in February I became VCDX certified, a couple months later I accepted a position with VMware and just last week I was recognized as a vExpert. I start my new position at VMware tomorrow…
For a little over the past two years I’ve worked for INX who was acquired at the beginning of the year by Presidio. I’ve enjoyed working for such a great company, my boss and everyone I worked with was just awesome. Looking back at the last two years I noticed a trend in the types of projects I was doing,…
Yesterday I received the news I’ve been working towards for nearly two years, I have finally obtained VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) certification. I don’t know my number yet, but by looking at the VCDX Directory there are now 75 VCDX’s so I’ll be somewhere between 69 and 75. I’d like to thank my family for believing in me through…
Like a few others this past week at Partner Exchange I sat the beta version of the VCAP-DCD 5. I found the exam to be pretty spot on with the blueprint which is nice. Like Jason Boche stated there’s really not much you can do to study for this exam, is pretty much an experience based exam. I did finish…
I’ve just returned to my hotel room my from VCDX defense here in freezing cold Germany (I’ve been in Houston, TX for so long I had forgotten what anything under 50 F feels like). Not really much I can say about it as it’s all under NDA, but I have to say that I feel better about my performance during…
The Partner Exchange Session Builder is up now and I sat down and built my schedule yesterday. If you’re in any of these sessions hit me up, always looking to make new contacts. 🙂 I’ll also be in the VMware vSphere 5 Storage Troubleshooting Boot Camp on Sunday and the vCenter Operations – Tech Express on Monday. I also hope…
So the last few weeks I’ve been nose down in my lab and my design going through all the scenarios that I can think of that would possibly come up during my defense. Been spending a lot of time white boarding and going through my opening presentation. Since I’m defending almost the exact same design I did in Singapore I’m…
I’ve received the email that I’ve been waiting on today. “I am happy to inform you that you achieved a high enough score to allow you to proceed to the defense stage of the process.” Germany here I come! It’s going to be a fun couple of weeks, VCDX defense in Germany then off to Partner Exchange in Vegas the…
My journey towards VCDX certification started back in mid 2010. After completing the prerequisite exams I submitted a Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 design that I designed and implemented at the company I was working for before going back to consulting. My design was accepted and I defended in Boston in November. I didn’t know what I was in for, I thought…
