A record of the work, grouped by which seat I was sitting in when I did it: customer, partner, and vendor.
Technical Marketing & Industry Media (NetBrain, 2024-2026)
- Built the Center for Competitive Intelligence at NetBrain from nothing: 23 competitive analysis pages, the standard reference for competitive deals.
- AI-Powered Network Troubleshooting with NetBrain: Faster, Smarter, and Proactive, Packet Pushers
- Interviewed on The Fast Mode’s podcast on GenAI-driven automation in network operations, and bylined in AI and Automation: Modern Networks Require Modern Solutions
- Featured in Cyber Defense Magazine’s Innovator Spotlight on NetBrain
- Bylined a two-part series on APM and observability for APM Digest: Part 10 and Part 11
- Sat down with Packet Pushers’ Drew Conry-Murray at AutoCon 4 to talk through NetBrain’s evolution from mapping to AI-powered network automation
- Launched “On the Wire,” a conference interview series capturing real conversations with engineers, customers, and partners at NetBrain LIVE
Conference Speaking & Technical Video (VMware, 2018-2024)
- Co-presented “99 Problems, But A vSphere Upgrade Ain’t One” at VMworld 2020, ranked the #3 highest-attended session that year
- Presented the “Day 0 to Day 365 in the Life of a VMware Virtualization Admin” series at Tech Field Day 18: Day 0 and Day 180
- Spoke at VMUGs in a dozen-plus cities (Dallas, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Kansas City, Madrid, London), plus EUC Day Minnesota
- Wrote for the official VMware vSphere Blog (29 posts)
- Authored the Upgrading to VMware vSphere 6.7 and Upgrading to VMware vSphere 7 eBooks
As a Customer and Partner (National Specialty Alloys & Sigma Solutions, 2012-2018)
- Managed IT infrastructure at National Specialty Alloys as the customer actually running the technology; brought in Infinio’s storage accelerator to fix VDI latency, covered in TechTarget
- Gave “Quitting Is Too Easy” at VMworld 2014, a vBrownBag session run by Alastair Cooke, filmed and streamed live, the talk that convinced me to keep presenting
- DJ’d SpiceWorld 2013 as DJ Whiplash (also featured on Spiceworks TV under that name), returned in 2014 and presented in 2015
- Consulting Engineer for VMware EUC at Sigma Solutions (now part of Computacenter), the partner and VAR side of the industry: pre-sales and post-sales for vSphere, Horizon, App Volumes, and UEM
- Presented Leveraging User Environment Manager to Remove GPOs at vBrownBag, and spoke at EUC Day 2016 on supporting VDI solutions with Matt Heldstab