The Americas VCI of the Quarter Award for the period of April to June (Q2) goes to John Davidson. John has been a technical trainer since 1996 and a VCI since 2007. As a VCI, John delivers classes for VMware directly, but also for the members of the Distributor, VATC and vITa communities. John delivers training across all certification tracks; Cloud, End-User Computing, Network Virtualization, and Data Center Virtualization.
As the Course Director (Lead Instructor) for Global Knowledge-USA, John has worked during Q2 with the RemoteLabs Team to develop the lab environment to support vSphere 5.5 FastTrack, vSphere 5.5 Optimize & Scale, and the Horizon View 5.2 courses. Completion of these labs allowed GK to offer a more robust public and enterprise schedule in order to deliver more training to VMware customers.
He has also delivered a total of 11 sessions in Q2 educating VMware customers.
Some years ago, John was fortunate to observe the first ICW conducted by David Day, Liz Loughlin, and Andrew Ellwood. Since then, John has delivered a number of ICW Prep workshops to prepare and mentor instructors in their efforts to become VCIs. In the past, John was awarded the status of Mentor Instructor to evaluate and promote junior VCIs who could only deliver ICM into senior VCIs. In addition, John has had many auditing VCIs in his classes and has assisted in their preparation efforts to deliver new training courses.
Please join me in congratulating him on this well deserved award. Congrats again John!
