About the Reviewers
Chris Halverson is the co-leader of his local VMUG and the principal consultant at Darus Consulting (www.darus.ca). He has been working in the IT industry for over 14 years and specifically 7 years in virtualization. He has worked hard to increase his skill in the automation and cloud realm over that point of time, thanks to his enjoyment in the PowerShell scripting arena. He excels in architecture and design space helping others conceptualize and design the ideal layout and performance for the company's infrastructure. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and four children and participating in his local Tae Kwon Do Dojang.
Timothy J. Patterson is a Cloud and Virtualization Systems Engineer, currently working at ProQuest based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Focused primarily on Amazon Web Services and VMware technologies, he is currently in possession of the VCAP5-DCA, VCAP5-DCD, VCP5-DCV technical certifications from VMware, as well as the AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification from Amazon. Additionally, he is a Bachelor of Science from Saginaw Valley State University in Computer Information Systems and is a Novell Certified Linux Engineer.
Throughout his career, Tim has gained over 10 years of direct hands-on experience working with VMware products and AWS with a passion towards cloud architecture, design, and automation technologies. He is currently a VCDX hopeful and is always looking ahead for the next challenge.
Victoria Peterson is originally from Scotland and is now based in the Netherlands. She has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry.
Her expertise is mainly focused on systems monitoring, automation, and integration. She has extensive knowledge and experience of design and implementation of monitoring solutions and development of custom monitoring based on System Center Operations Manager. She is currently a System Center Monitoring Specialist at Wageningen UR.
Her product skill set includes technologies such as SCOM, SCCM, SCSM, Windows Server, Active Directory, SQL, Citrix XenApp, VMware vSphere, Unicenter NSM, and automation of various tasks using PowerShell scripting.
Victoria has MCSE (legacy) and MCDBA certifications and she additionally holds other non-Microsoft certifications such as Citrix Certified Administrator (XenApp 6.5) and Certified Unicenter Specialist Engineer for Unicenter NSM.
Philip Sellers is a Senior Systems Administrator based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with 15 years of experience. Primarily focused in Microsoft and VMware technologies, he is the virtualization lead for Horry Telephone Cooperative (HTC) and works extensively with core technology platforms such as vSphere, Active Directory, and Exchange. Prior to his current role, he served as a trusted IT consultant for medical, legal, and hospitality companies administering their infrastructure and systems.
Philip is an active blogger, covering vSphere, Microsoft software, and HP hardware platforms. He is a VMware vExpert for 2013, and he has recognizing contributions to the VMware community and advocacy of the vSphere platform. He also participates with the VMware User Groups in his area.
To find out more about Philip, you may follow his blog at http://tech.philipsellers.com and on Twitter, @pbsellers.
Brian Wuchner is a Senior Systems Administrator for a government agency. He has over 10 years of industry experience with specialties in infrastructure automation, directory services, and data center virtualization. Brian holds the VCA-Cloud, VCA-WM, and VCP5-DCV certifications and was awarded the vExpert title from VMware for 2011-2013. He can be contacted on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/bwuch), Twitter (@bwuch), or through his blog at http://enterpriseadmins.org.