It is a gorgeous morning in Pella, Iowa and the tulips are in full splendor. Birds are chirping and we have yet another perfect spring day to be thankful for. The Drake Relays are in full swing and I’m looking forward to a weekend of elite track and field action in my own backyard. In short, life is good and it feels like the perfect beginning to a new chapter in my professional life.
On Tuesday, I will be diving out of the airplane and entering the world of contract-based VMware consulting. In the past I have typically worked for software development shop, VARs, hospital, and I even farmed for a character-building 6 month stint with my in-laws back in Manning, Iowa. Yes, that’s right. The bacon you were eating back in late 2002, early 2003 might have come from a pig I helped care for. I actually got my Oracle certified DBA cert while farming those 6 months. I guarantee, that nothing motivates you to pass an IT certification more than power-washing manure out of an empty hog barn. Nothing! But I digress…..
I’m off to a new way to put bacon on the table for my family. I will be working as a VMware Architect working on capacity planning and how to best provide hybrid cloud computing resources for the many servers at $LargeInsuranceCo in Bloomington, Illinois. From everything I’ve heard, it’s a top notch company to work with and a great community to live in. I’m excited, and fully expect to throw myself into the vSphere VCDX preparation starting next week and will likely turn the bulk of my research into cloud computing tech rather than the VDI focus of the last year and a half. It’s definitely going to be fun ride and a great challenge to rise to to.
But this change isn’t all rainbows and unicorns (weaponized ponies). It has definitely been a bittersweet decision for me, as I have to leave a great team of of people and a great company. Alliance Technologies has been my work “home” for almost 5 years of my 10 year IT career, launching my IT career in 2000 when I was a programmer/DBA. In 2007, they were gracious enough to have me back and help build up their VMware practice and apply my trade. But for the last year and half, I have focused a large part of my work and research on Quest vWorkspace and “VDI”. It has been fun to watch the Alliance Technologies vWorkspace practice grow and thrive. Alliance Technologies has a great group of engineers and sales professionals that “get VDI” from their years of experience with Citrix, VMware and now Quest vWorkspace. It will be fun to watch their continued growth and success in the coming years.
It is a gorgeous morning in Pella, Iowa and the tulips are in full splendor. Birds are chirping and we have yet another perfect spring day to be thankful for. The Drake Relays are in full swing and I’m looking forward to a weekend of elite track and field action in my own backyard. In short, life is good and it feels like the perfect beginning to a new chapter in my professional life.
On Tuesday, I will be diving out of the airplane and entering the world of VMware virtualization consulting. In the past I have typically worked for software development shops, VARs, a hospital, and I even farmed for a character-building 6 month stint with my in-laws back in Manning, Iowa. Yes, that’s right. The bacon you were eating back in late 2002, early 2003 might have come from a pig I helped care for (or cussed at). I actually got my Oracle certified DBA cert while farming those 6 months. I guarantee, that nothing motivates you to pass an IT certification more than power-washing manure out of an empty hog barn. Nothing! But I digress…..
I’m off to a new way to put bacon on the table for my family. I will be working as a VMware Architect [not for VMware PSO] working on capacity planning and how to best provide hybrid cloud computing resources for the many servers at a Fortune 500 company. From everything I’ve heard, it’s a top notch company to work with and a great community to live in. I’m excited, and fully expect to throw myself into the vSphere VCDX preparation starting next week and will likely turn the bulk of my research into cloud computing tech rather than the VDI focus of the last year and a half. It’s definitely going to be fun ride and a great challenge to rise to to.
But this change isn’t all rainbows and unicorns (weaponized ponies). It has definitely been a bittersweet decision for me, as I have to leave a great team of of people and a great company with awesome customers. Alliance Technologies has been my work “home” for almost 5 years of my 10 year IT career, launching my IT career in 2000 when I was a programmer/DBA. In 2007, they were gracious enough to have me back and help build up their VMware practice and apply my trade. But for the last year and half, I have focused a large part of my work and research on Quest vWorkspace and “VDI”. It has been fun to watch the Alliance Technologies vWorkspace practice grow and thrive. Alliance Technologies has a great group of engineers and sales professionals that “get VDI” from their years of experience with Citrix, VMware and now Quest vWorkspace. It will be fun to watch their continued growth and success in the coming years. Thank you, Alliance Technologies and good luck!
So with that, the cat is out of the bag. I’m excited for this new chapter and this new challenge. It’s definitely going to be a interesting and rewarding few years. Look out VMware and Cloud architect gurus, you’ll probably be seeing and hearing more from me as I pick your brain and bounce ideas off you. I hope that I can help return the favor at least once or twice as well. If not, I can at least pay up in a beer at the next VMworld.
UPDATE: There is some confusion that I’m working for VMware PSO now. That is NOT the case. I’m am a contract virtualization architect specializing in VMware design and architecture. Sorry for the confusion.
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