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<\/a><\/p>\nTo mark year 10 as a Microsoft Valuable Professional, I have been awarded with a double expertise:<\/p>\n
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- Cloud & Datacenter Management (Hyper-V)<\/li>\n
- Microsoft Azure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
And a little later in the afternoon, the notification email arrived:<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nMy eldest daughter, who is 10 years old, had noticed my stress and wanted to congratulate me. I was banished from the kitchen and later I was presented with this cake – I’m a proud Dad:<\/p>\n
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These are fun times ahead for IT pros. My double status, with on-premises virtualization and public cloud, mirrors what’s going on in many of our careers, either already or pretty soon. \u00a0My career has changed so much over the years:<\/p>\n
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- UNIX programmer<\/li>\n
- Have-a-go-hero Windows consultant<\/li>\n
- Re-inventing myself to be a better Microsoft engineer<\/li>\n
- Senior sysadmin in an international company<\/li>\n
- MVP in SCCM<\/li>\n
- Virtualization engineer<\/li>\n
- MVP in Hyper-V<\/li>\n
- Author<\/li>\n
- Technical sales<\/li>\n
- Writer<\/li>\n
- Lead on Azure IaaS<\/li>\n
- MVP in Azure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
And now I can see somewhat of a return to development. I don’t see myself coding, but I’m heading to Ignite with the intention of spending as much time as posisble learning PaaS stuff, while trying to figure out what’s happening in Windows Server 1709, Azure IaaS developments, and soooo much more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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