Why do we love VMware’s team of VMware Certified Instructors you ask? Because they’re amazing, that’s why! What sets VMware Certified Instructors apart in the industry is their passion and commitment to the success of their students. This is the heart of their approach to learning.
Across each class, they aim to build the bridge between theory and practice, taking complex topics and delivering them in a way that’s easily understood, and instilling critical technical skills in each of their students. Their goal is to leave students feeling confident, having gained the knowledge needed to directly leverage new techniques they’ve learned in the classroom, and back to their respective data centers.
But don’t just take our word for it. This team of VMware Certified Instructors has the numbers to prove it, consistently delivering top effective effort scores, which consist of the number of days taught and difficulty level, all while receiving regular positive feedback from their students. This is a true demonstration of their passion and dedication to providing the best instruction to each of their students.
And to reward these efforts, we’ve granted the top VMware Certified Instructors who have demonstrated these values, three prestigious rewards. Check out this year’s winners of the 2023 VMware Certified Instructor Awards!
VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) of the Year Award
The VCI of the Year Award is granted to a single individual from each global region. Throughout 2023, this individual demonstrated exceptional levels of expertise in their delivery by maintaining the highest Effective Effort score of all the VCIs. This score is comprised of three key factors: course difficulty level, number of teaching days, and student evaluation score.
| AMER | EMEA | Australia |
| Marcelo Soares | Eric Sloof | Vath Lee |
| China | India | SEAK |
| To be announced | Girish Kumar | Prasanthlal Prabhakaran |
| Japan | ||
| To be announced | ||
Top 10 Certified Instructors Award
VMware’s Top 10 Certified Instructors Award is granted to ten individuals from each global region. Each instructor maintained one of the top ten highest Effective Effort scores throughout the year. This score is comprised of three key factors: course difficulty level, number of teaching days, and student evaluation score.
| AMER | EMEA | APAC |
| Julio Cesar Faria de Oliveira | Bilal Kalem | Himanshu Kakkar |
| Gabriel Nunez | Adrian Vizoso | Raghav Khanna |
| Marcelo Soares | Pawel Piotrowski | Zihou He |
| Henry Ramon Mendoza Metamoros | Dan Cremar | Neeraj Sharma |
| Brad Reynolds | Vedran Dakic | Wai Kean Wong |
| Luis Figueroa | Gareth Bagley | Dhruti Thaker |
| Gerardo Urena | Sven Wischnewski | Sho Hirabayashi |
| Enrique Boyas | Edvard Filistovic | Ranjna Aggarwal |
| John Ilgenfritz | Khalil Hammoudi | Jun Shi |
| Henrique Cicuto | Ian Worrall | Tavman Singh Chhabra |
Instructor of Excellence Award
The VMware Instructor of Excellence Award is granted to a select group of instructors from each global region. In teaching at least 100 days, these individuals retained above average student evaluation scores of 4.95 or higher throughout the year.
| AMER | EMEA | APAC |
| Linus Bourque | Tibor Gaal | Yogesh Meherwade |
| Henrique Cicuto | Omer Asik | Amit Monga |
| Joe Cooper | Aleksandar Zlatovic | Xuexu Kou |
| Tim Burkard | Pawel Piotrowski | Shekhar KSR |
| Ryan Birk | Eric Hermanie | |
| Julio Cesar Faria de Oliveira | Ed Janssen | |
| Ariel Isaac Aburto Perez | Phillip Badnell | |
| Jiri Viktorin | ||
| Fabrizio de Luca | ||
| Allen Morgan |
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