VCAT-SP is an initiative that has been developed by the Global Cloud Practice within the VMware Cloud Provider Program Business Unit. This team is comprised of specialist service provider-focused architects who work with some of the most strategic VMware service providers across the globe.

 

Dan is an innovative, creative, and passionate senior IT executive with a broad background in global consulting practice leadership, executive level consulting, cloud architecture and design, and business development for some of the largest and most innovative companies in the world. He has a proven track record of leading global cross-functional teams that consistently exceed sales quotas while creating competitive advantage for clients and partners through the innovative application of cloud strategies and solutions. Dan is currently responsible for managing VMware Global Cloud Practice for the VMware Cloud Provider Program (more than 4,000 partners in 110 countries). This global team of senior architects and consultants focuses on accelerating our partner’s business growth through the use of the VMware portfolio of cloud services and solutions. Dan has a BS in Business Information Systems (BIS) and more than twenty years of experience running Fortune 500 data centers, global consulting teams, and business development teams.

 

Adrian Roberts is a Director of the Global Cloud Architecture, VMware Cloud Provider Program IP Development Services team. Adrian has over 17 years of industry experience and has been working for VMware for more than 5 years as a technical leader and architect, specializing in cloud architecture and design for VMware strategic customers and partners. Adrian is one of a small group of people who hold a double VCDX certification in data center virtualization and cloud management and automation. Additionally, he holds other industry recognized certifications, such as TOGAF and various Microsoft certifications.

 

Martin is a Principal Architect, Office of the CTO, Global Field, and part of the Global Cloud Sales Organization at VMware. Martin has extensive experience architecting and consulting with international customers, and serves as a trusted adviser in the design and transition of enterprise organizations and cloud service provider's legacy infrastructure onto VMware software-defined data center based cloud platforms.

Martin specializes in cloud architecture, and is predominately focused on software-defined storage technologies, such as VMware vSAN and Virtual Volumes, as well as storage related solutions for public and hybrid cloud platforms.

He is also a double VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX Number 117) in Data Center Virtualization and Cloud Management and Automation, an established vExpert, and is the author of multiple papers, blogs and articles based on VMware and other technologies. He is also the sole author of the new Sybex publication VMware Software-Defined Storage: A Guide to the Policy Driven, Software-Defined Storage Era.

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Daniel has been at VMware for six years, and is currently working as a Cloud Architect in the VMware Global Cloud Practice. Daniel's background is in the architecture and solution delivery of enterprise IT projects. His previous role was with VMware Professional Services, consulting on multi-million-dollar infrastructure projects for Australian and international companies across multiple industry verticals. Starting out in the ISP industry as a Solaris/Linux systems administrator over 17 years ago, Daniel is still a Unix geek at heart. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science, and certification in VCAP5-DCD, VCP5-DV, VCP5-Cloud, RHCE5, SCSA.

 

 

Harold Simon is a Global Cloud Architect with the VMware Cloud Provider Program Global Cloud Practice. Prior to joining the Global Cloud Practice team, Harold worked in VMware Professional Services were he consulted with multiple enterprise-level customers designing and deploying vRealize Automation solutions for private cloud implementations consuming on-premises as well as public cloud endpoints. Harold’s certifications include VCDX (Data Center and Cloud), MCSE, and ITILv3.

 

Danilo Feroce is a Cloud Solutions Architect with the Global Cloud Practice at VMware. He has a broad experience in the high-tech industry with an international background in product development and consulting services gained working for the largest software and hardware solution players in the market over the past 20 years.

Danilo deals with virtualization concepts and products since their inception, but has sharpened his expertise to span across multiple technical domains and frameworks. He has authored many publications covering data center topics, such as performance tuning, capacity planning, sizing, scalability, availability, security and so on.

Danilo is a VMware Certified Professional and he is accredited with a range of industry certifications from recognized organizations and vendors: ISC2 CISSP, ITIL, TOGAF, CompTIA, AWS, EMC, Microsoft, Dell.

Ray Heffer is a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at VMware with a deep focus on End User Computing (EUC) and Cross-Cloud technologies. Ray is a proud Ambassador to the Office of the CTO, awarded vExpert since 2011, and a Double VCDX certification holder (#122) and panelist for Desktop and Data Center Virtualization tracks (see https://vcdx.vmware.com).

With over 20 years of experience in the data center, infrastructure team management, architecture, design, and IT operations, Ray maintains a deep knowledge of VMware products and emerging cloud technologies. Ray has delivered many technical deep-dive sessions at industry events, such as VMworld US and Europe, VMUG (VMware User Group), and other events around the world. Ray also contributes to End User Computing publications and tools, having designed and co-developed the Horizon Sizing Estimator (http://vmware.com/go/horizoncalc), and has published technical white papers, blogs, and popular reference architecture designs.

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Steve joined VMware as a Cloud Solutions Architect after a ten-year career designing hosted virtualization platforms for a global Service Provider. During that time, Steve was the infrastructure design and architecture lead for three generations of multi-tenant Cloud platforms, beginning with ESX v4.0 and ending with the introduction of NSX and the vRealize suite. As part of that role Steve was responsible for the production of solution documentation as well as the creation and delivery of internal product training.

Tomas Fojta works as a Global Cloud Architect for VMware Cloud Provider Program, where he supports the largest service provider partners worldwide who build cloud solutions utilizing VMware technologies. He is a certified virtualization and cloud architect (double VCDX, VCIX-NV, CCNA, EMCCA) as well as a project manager (PMI PMP). Specialties: public and private cloud, network virtualization.

John Dwyer is currently a Product Manager working on vCloud Director SP at VMware. Prior to his current role, he spent time in the Global Cloud Practice as a Global Cloud Architect, where he leveraged his extensive background in software development, automation, virtualization, networking, and storage. Before joining VMware, John helped one of our VMware Cloud Provider launch an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform. The platform was designed from the ground up to provide a path to help enterprises move to the cloud, no matter where they were in the cloud adoption lifecycle. In 2014, his work on the IaaS platform was awarded a US Patent for providing methods and systems for managing a virtual data center with embedded roles based access control. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Information Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology and is a VMware Certified Professional.

Wade Holmes is a Senior Technical Product Manager within the VMware Networking and Security Business Unit product team responsible for the VMware NSX platform. Wade has over 19 years of experience planning, designing, engineering, architecting, and supporting complex IT solutions and products of all scopes and sizes. Wade was a co-author and co-lead of the initial VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit book, and helped to lead the creation of the vCloud Architecture Toolkit for Service Providers. Wade has presented and taught at multiple conferences, such as VMworld US and Europe, Gartner Security Summit, SXSW Interactive, Tech-summit, LISA, and numerous VMware User Group conferences. Wade was among the first VMware Certified Design Experts in the world, VCDX#15. Wade holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology and a Master’s Degree in Information Assurance.

 

Derek has been involved in the IT industry for over 20 years, covering software engineering architecture to emerging technology, BCDR and managed services to technical sales. Currently he serves as Global Cloud Architect – VMware Cloud Provider Program for the Global Cloud Practice at VMware. Derek received his B.S. in Computer Engineering Technology from Northeastern University and his MBA from Boston University. Derek started his career in technology by developing software to extract and correlate telemetry data from the Trident II missile’s MK6 guidance system. Derek then moved into roles including system administration and engineering and eventually into a presales engineering role at EMC where he designed and sold the first post 9/11 business continuity solution for the Pentagon. Throughout his career, Derek has developed multiple competencies by serving in different capacities, such as a software engineer, sales engineer, solutions architect, and product development manager responsible for developing joint solutions with system integration partners.

Derek is a published author and holds several industry certifications including VCP-Cloud, VMware AirWatch® AWTP, EMCTA – SAN Design, EMCTA – Business Continuity, and ITIL v3 Foundations.

 

Allen Shortnacy is a Global Cloud Architect in the VMware Cloud Provider Program and member of the CTO Ambassador Program. He is focused on best practices and patterns for workload migration, security, and compliance, as well as other enhancements to help VMware Cloud Provider Program Service Providers continue to bring value-added services to customers. In his prior role in Global Strategic Alliances, Allen created the Compliance Reference Architecture program, a technology partner program and documentation effort that provided guidance to achieve regulatory compliance for business-critical applications running on a VMware technology stack. He is regular speaker at VMworld, Partner Exchange, RSA Conference as well as other industry events on the subject of the software-defined data center and Hybrid Cloud.