Keiran Shelden 4 years ago, I decided to take the plunge at applying for my first year as a vExpert. I thought I was just shooting into the open air not thinking I would receive an award. I had only just started getting into virtualisation, having only done a small amount at work, but I was enjoying the technology so much I decided I would start blogging along my journey. Not long after starting that path, I started to attend our local VMUG chapter and then went on to be a leader for a couple of years. More and more I grew into the VMware virtualisation family.
It is with great honour today to accept my 5th year as a vExpert. This program has been running for 10 years now and is there to acknowledge those who provide back to the VMware community. This program has given me so much, in terms of resources and community support to get the most out of my virtualization journey and to continue to grow and learn more and more each day.
Why is this program so special? I’m glad you asked! The program is not only designed to acknowledge publicly those that spend their time blogging about why you should have High Availability turned on, but to use the vExperts as a valuable resources for testing Beta’s for VMware and providing feedback to improve the GA version. As mentioned in the previous paragraph, the program enables each vExpert to engage in the community as one and this encourages one another to persist push the limits of their blogging, their knowledge and skills. The team we have are a reliable and trusted group who individually, but also together produce content to help the community in their own environments.
There are additional benefits we receive as vExperts, such as invites to internal VMware calls, private BETA testing and licenses to be able to continue testing and producing content. These benefits only push you to work harder and create bigger and better content.
I love being part of this select group. and I want to thank Corey Romero and the vExpert/Community team at VMware for giving me and all this years vExperts the opportunity to be a part of the program once again.
