Hi! My name is Brad Hedlund — I’m an experienced networking professional at VMware’s Networking and Security Business Unit, specializing in network virtualization and data center fabrics. I’ve been helping customers design large and small data centers with challenging and complex requirements since 1996. My professional specialties include writing and content creation, pre-sales interactions with customers, and evangelizing new technology and architectures to a broader market.
Prior experience summary:
- Dell (1 year)
- Cisco (6 years)
- Cisco partners (6 years)
- IT customer (4 years)
Speaker:
- Architecting Data Center Networks in the Era of Big Data and Cloud (Interop Las Vegas 2012)
- UCS Networking Deep Dive (BRKCOM-2003) – Cisco Live, Europe 2011 (London)
Awards @ Cisco:
- “Top Engineer” (August 2007)
- “Systems Engineer Sales Champion” (August 2008)
- “Systems Engineer Sales Champion” (August 2009)
- “Data Center CSE* of the Quarter, US & Canada” (May 2009)
- “Top Data Center CSE* of the Year, US & Canada” (August 2009)
*Consulting Systems Engineer
Certifications:
- CCIE #5530 Emeritus (Routing & Switching)
- VMware Certified Professional VCP4
- Cloudera Certified Administrator for Hadoop
Author:
- Cisco white paper: Connectivity Solutions for the Cisco Unified Computing System
Follow on Twitter: @bradhedlund
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