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Last Updated June, 2012

Symon currently lives in Seattle, Washington, USA

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Employment
Education
Residency Status and Languages
Awards and Recognitions
Technical Expertise
Publications and Community Programs
Conferences, Speaking and Training Engagements
Other Interests

Employment

President and Founder, “FanWide LLC” (www.FanWide.com), Seattle, WA., 2010 – present

  • Founded and lead technology business, focusing on Mobile Application Development, Domain Name Services, Websites, Technical Consulting, Entertainment, Social Media and Trivia

  • Registered Trade Names: FanWide, FanWide Technologies, MobileQs

  • Contracted and managed over 250 vendors for dozens of technology projects since 2010

  • Published over 90 mobile apps (commercial and games) since 2010

  • Developed and Published "MobileQs", #1 mobile trivia game for BlackBerry (2010 - present) and Windows Phone 7 (2011 - present)

  • Marketed film and music projects to over 100,000 people via social media

Technical Evangelist, “Microsoft Corporation” Developer and Platform Evangelism, Redmond, WA., 2011 – present

  • Worldwide corporate technical specialist for Microsoft’s Private Cloud, System Center and Virtualization technologies (1 position globally)

  • Technical expertise include datacenter management, private cloud, virtualization, high-availability, disaster recovery, mobile technologies and social media

  • Created, designed and delivered hundreds of technical presentations, trainings, webcasts, radio and news shows in multiple media formats to over 350,000 IT Professionals each year

  • Planed and delivered worldwide technical marketing campaigns for IT Professional using Microsoft datacenter technologies

  • Directly supervise a staff maintaining a private cloud lab with hundreds of physical and virtual servers by Microsoft evangelist for events, trainings and demos.  Last year the lab hosted 115 events in 63 cities across 30 countries, saving our organization an estimated $2 million in event execution costs.

Program Manager, "Microsoft Corporation" Server Clustering and High Availability, Redmond, WA., 2006 – 2011

  • Designed numerous high-availability features for Failover Clustering (WSFC) and Network Load Balancing (NLB) distributed system technologies

  • Release Manager with responsibility for shipping WSFC and NLB in Windows Server 2008, 2008 SP2, 2008 R2, 2008 R2 SP1 and future Windows Server technologies, and leading team-wide tenets for compatibility, compliance, engineering criteria, legal requirements, manageability, patents, performance, privacy, reliability, security, user experience and world readiness

  • Community Program Manager assigned to team presentations, conferences, partner engagements, Beta testing, internal testing, product support, marketing team, blogging and product evangelism

  • 2 patents (pending) for a distributed system management technology (2011) and distributed system virtualization technology (2011)

  • Ranked in top quintile for exceeding expected commitments every year, without exception

Technology Consultant, “Special Service Freight Company”, Charlotte, NC., 2005 – 2007

Web Designer, “Symu Media”, Madison, NJ., 2002 – 2003

Website and Database Design Consultant, “Alatiere, Inc.”, Columbia, MD., 2002

 

Education

Duke University, Durham, NC.

  • B.S. Double Major: Computer Science and Economics

  • Certificate Program: Film, Video and Digital Media Studies

London School of Economics, London, England

  • Summer School – Economics

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

  • Summer School – Business Studies and Computer Science

Newark Academy, Livingston, NJ.

 

Residency Status and Languages

Dual-Citizen of the United States of America and United Kingdom (England)

English – Native language; Spanish – Basic conversation, reading and writing

 

Awards and Recognitions

Patents

  • Technology involving migration virtual machines configuration information between servers (details confidential, pending), 2012

  • Deployment of Pre-Scheduled Tasks in Clusters (pending), 2011

Numerous Speaking Recognitions, 2009 – present: Details in the Conferences, Speaking and Training Engagements section

Microsoft Exhibition of Excellence Finalist for Most Impactful Project, TechReady 15, 2012

Microsoft Exhibition of Excellence Finalist for Best Collaboration Project, TechReady 14, 2012

Microsoft Exhibition of Excellence Finalist for Most Impactful Project, TechReady 14, 2012

Microsoft Exhibition of Excellence Finalist for Best Collaboration Project, TechReady 13, 2011

Microsoft Certified Trainer, 2011 - 2012

Microsoft Gold Start Merit Award, 2010: Leading company-wide changes to increase computer availability through improvements to the Windows Update patching processes

Microsoft Ship-It Awards, 2008 – 2012: Significant contributions towards shipping a major product

  • Windows Server 2012, TBD

  • SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse, 2010

  • Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010, 2009

  • Windows Server 2008 R2, 2009

  • Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2, 2009

  • Windows Server 2008, 2008

Eagle Scout Award, Boy Scouts of America

AP Scholar, Newark Academy: Outstanding test scores: Advanced Calculus, Calculus, Computer Science, Economics

National Merit Scholar, Newark Academy

Senior Achievement Award, Newark Academy: Award for Academic and Athletic Success – 1 per year

Portuese Award, Newark Academy: Leadership through Football – 1 per year

 

Technical Expertise

Technical Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified Trainer, 2011 - 2012

  • Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate, Windows Server 2008

  • Microsoft Certified Enterprise Administrator, Windows Server 2008

  • Microsoft Certified Server Administrator, Windows Server 2008

  • MCITP Enterprise Support Technician, Windows Vista

  • MCTS Active Directory Configuration, Windows Server 2008

  • MCTS Applications Infrastructure Configuration, Windows Server 2008

  • MCTS Network Infrastructure Configuration, Windows Server 2008

  • MCTS Vista Configuration, Windows Vista

  • MCTS Virtualization Configuration, Windows Server 2008

  • MCTS Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization

Technical Expertise

  • Designer: Adobe Photoshop, DemoMate, Mobile Platforms (Android, BlackBerry, iPhone/iPad, Windows Phone 7)

  • Developer: Assembly Language, C/++, Command Line Scripting, HTML, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Stata Statistics

  • Microsoft: Encoder, Office (Excel, FrontPage, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Word), Product Studio, Product Support (XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012), System Center 2012 (App Controller, Operations Manager, Orchestrator, Virtual Machine Manager), Windows Client (7, Vista, XP), Windows Media Center, Windows Server (2012, 2008 R2, 2008)

  • Social Media: Facebook, Facebook Pages, Twitter API, Twitter Marketing

  • Windows Server Expertise: Configuration, Deployment, Disaster Recovery, Failover Clustering, File Server Technologies, Health-Monitoring, High-Availability, Hyper-V, Network Load Balancing, Patching, PowerShell, Server Manager, Storage Replication, System Center (App Controller, Operations Manager, Orchestrator, Virtual Machine Manager), Task Scheduler, Virtualization

 

Publications and Community Programs

Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering)

  • Founder, Author or Editor of 100+ posts, with hundreds of thousands of views and RSS feeds, (2008 – present)

Book Acknowledgements for Technical Contributions

  • Introducing Windows Server 2012 by Mitch Tulloch, Microsoft Press, 2012

  • Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 by Ross Mistry, Microsoft Press, 2010

  • Configuring Windows Server Virtualization (MCTS Exam: 70-652) by Nelson Ruest, Danielle Ruest and Grandmasters, Microsoft Press, 2009

  • Pro SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering by Allan Hirt, Apress, 2009

Customer Engagement and Evangelism

  • Conducted 1000+ hours of direct customer interaction since 2008

  • Evangelize technologies at user group meetings

  • Maintain relationships with 3rd Party Developers, Customers, OEMs, IHVs, ISVs, Partners

  • Manage team’s forums and newsgroups

  • Presented at dozens of national and international conferences and on-line webcasts to 5000+ people since 2008

  • Responsible for team’s Software Quality Metrics (SQM) and Watson customer research technologies

  • Received professional speaker training, 2007 - present

Interviews

Magazine Publications

  • CLICK HERE for an A: Plagiarism, Profits, and the Business of Helping Students Cheat. Business Today (Princeton: Princeton University , 2006)

  • Becoming Pod People – Can iPods Change the Way We Learn? Business Today (Princeton: Princeton University, 2005)

  • Welcome to the ‘Microsoft Institute of Technology’. Business Today (Princeton: Princeton University , 2005)

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) Program

  • MVP Lead for Failover Clustering, High-Availability and Network Load Balancing, 2007 - 2011

  • Developed program into to #1 rated (overall satisfaction), Windows Server and System Center groups, 2008 - 2010

  • Organize presentations and events for annual weeklong MVP Summit, 2008 - 2011

  • Doubled the size of program and quadrupled overall participation

Recruiting and College Representative

  • Promoted Microsoft on two recruiting trips to Duke University and contributed towards 20+ job acceptances

  • Sponsored 20 events for 10 clubs, 2009

Seattle Windows Networking User Group

  • Member and Presenter, 2008 - present

Technology Adoption Program

  • Managed relationship with 25 partners to deploy clusters before Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM with more early deployments, greater coverage, and higher visibility than any previous release, 2009 - 2010

Training Design

 

Conferences, Speaking and Training Engagements

TechReady 15, July 2012 (upcoming), Seattle, WA.

  • Track Advisor for technical content for the Server & Cloud Infrastructure and Management (SCIM) track

  • Presentations: Speaking to our Customers about the Microsoft Private Cloud, Hyper-V High-Availability and Mobility: Designing the Infrastructure for your Private Cloud

  • Head Instructor for Lab: Failover Clustering 101: Build a High-Availability Cluster in just 1 hour!

  • Designed lab: Failover Clustering 101: Build a High-Availability Cluster in just 1 hour!

Exam 70-659: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization Jump Start, 9 Dates from 2011 to 2012, Virtual Conference

  • Co-lead instructor and content creator for 8 hour online training (paid event)

  • 2,000 live students trained over 9 events with an average NSAT of 166

  • Presentations: Installing and Configuring Host and Parent Settings; Configuring Child Settings; Managing and Monitoring Virtual Environments; Ensuring High Availability and Recoverability; Performing Migration; Configuring Remote Desktop (RD) Role Services Infrastructure

TechEd Europe, June 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • Presentations: Hyper-V High-Availability and Mobility: Designing the Infrastructure for Your Private Cloud; Introduction to the Microsoft Private Cloud

  • Conducted technical interviews for the Edge Show

TechEd North America, June 2012, Orlando, FL.

  • Presentations: Hyper-V High-Availability and Mobility: Designing the Infrastructure for Your Private Cloud; Introduction to the Microsoft Private Cloud

  • Conducted technical interviews for the Edge Show

Virtualization IT Camp, June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Presentations: Overview of Microsoft Virtualization; VMware Terminology Comparison; Infrastructure & Hardware Planning; Hyper-V Planning; Clustering Planning; System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2; System Center 2012 & the Private Cloud

Virtualization IT Camp, May 2012, Săo Paulo, Brazil

  • Presentations: Overview of Microsoft Virtualization; Hyper-V Introduction; Clustering Planning; Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V versus VMware; Introduction to the Microsoft Private Cloud

  • Conducted technical interviews for the TechNet TV Brasil show

Creating and Managing a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Jump Start Training, April & May 2012, Virtual Conference

  • Designed, created, delivered and evangelized 2-day course for Microsoft Learning (MSL)

  • 2 events; 2,800 live attendees; 31,000 video replays; 5,000 registered attendees (first ever sold out MSL event); 181 NSAT

Microsoft Management Summit 2012, April 2012, Las Vegas, NV.

  • Presentations: Hyper-V High-Availability and Mobility: Designing the Infrastructure for Your Private Cloud; Cloud Clustering: Leveraging System Center 2012 for Continual Availability in the Private Cloud

  • Conducted technical interviews for the Edge Show

Train the Trainer, March 2012, Zagreb, Croatia

  • Trained MVPs and learning partners on redelivery of Microsoft virtualization and private cloud content

TechEd India, March 2012, Bangalore, India

  • Presentations: System Center 2012: How it Enables Building Private Clouds; System Center 2012: Application and Network Monitoring in your Private Cloud

Microsoft User Group Support Services, February 2012, Virtual Conference

  • Presentation: Introduction to the Microsoft Private Cloud with System Center 2012 (repeated twice)

  • Over 50 User Group leads attended

New Horizons Learning Partner Webinar, February 2012, Virtual Conference

  • Presentation: Introduction to the Microsoft Private Cloud

  • Over 100 trainers attended to learn how to redeliver the presentation to other students

TechReady 14, January 2012, Seattle, WA.

  • Ranked #5 overall speaker (tie, out of 797), Ranked #1 speaker in Server and Cloud Infrastructure and Management (SCIM) track

  • Track Advisor for technical content for SCIM track

  • Presentations: Symon Says: This is how to speak to IT Pros about the Private Cloud, Hyper-V High-Availability and Mobility in Windows Server 8: Designing the Infrastructure for your Private Cloud (Ranked #6 chalk-talk (tie) in SCIM track)

  • Head Instructor for Lab: Failover Clustering 101: Build a High-Availability Cluster in just 1 hour! (Ranked #8 overall event (tie), Ranked #2 event in SCIM track (tie), Ranked #3 overall instructor-led lab, Ranked #1 instructor-led lab in SCIM track)

  • Designed lab: Failover Clustering 101: Build a High-Availability Cluster in just 1 hour! (Ranked #2 most popular lab by transfers, Ranked #4 lab in SCIM track)

Train the Trainer, January 2012, Redmond, WA.

  • Trained 50 Microsoft Technical Evangelists on redelivery of Microsoft virtualization and private cloud content

Private Cloud and Virtualization IT Camp, December 2011, Nicosia, Cyprus

  • Lead instructor and content creator for 2 days of in-person training and hands-on labs with 70 IT Professionals

  • Presentations: Introduction to Microsoft Virtualization, Virtualization Infrastructure, Hyper-V Fundamentals, Hyper-V Advanced, Clustering and High-Availability, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, Advanced System Center Management

  • Designed advanced hands-on lab environment with 4 VMs per student using Windows Server, Hyper-V and System Center technologies

Microsoft MC3 Training: Failover Clustering with Hyper-V: Designing a Highly-Available Infrastructure for the Private Cloud, December 2011, Virtual Conference

  • Co-lead instructor and content creator for 3 hours of online training

  • Presentations: Introduction to Clustering, Hyper-V High-Availability, Private Cloud High-Availability

  • 183 NSAT, 474 Attendees

Microsoft MC3 Training: Virtualization, October 2011, Virtual Conference

  • Co-lead instructor and content creator for 3 hours online training

  • Presentations: Virtualization Technology, Virtualization Careers, Virtualization Certifications

  • 170 NSAT, 332 Attendees

Microsoft Certified Trainer Readiness - Train the Trainer, August 2011, Virtual Conference

  • Presentation: Disaster Recovery Planning for Hyper-V with Failover Clustering

Seattle Windows Networking User Group, August 2011, Bellevue, WA.

  • Presentation: Disaster Recovery by Stretching Hyper-V Clusters Across Sites

TechReady 13, July 2011, Seattle, WA.

  • Track Advisor for technical content for Virtualization track

  • Area Advisor for technical content for Private Cloud theme

  • Presentations: Cloudy Messages: Talking to IT Pros about Microsoft's Public and Private Cloud, Reboot Relief! Painless Patching Deep Dive, Understanding Microsoft's High-Availability Solutions

  • Head Instructor for Lab: Failover Clustering 101: Build a High-Availability Cluster in just 1 hour! (Ranked #6 Overall Lab)

VMware vSphere Training, July 2011, Bellevue, WA.

  • Assistant Instructor for 2-day training course presented by SQLSoft for Microsoft employees about VMware

Microsoft User Group Support Services, June 2011, Virtual Conference

  • Presentation: Hyper-V with Failover Clustering - Planning your Highly-Available Virtualization Environment (repeated twice)

  • 170 NSAT (record), 142 User Group Leads Attended (record)

Microsoft Certified Trainer Readiness - Train the Trainer, June 2011, Virtual Conference

  • Presentation: Hyper-V with Failover Clustering: Planning your Highly-Available Virtualization Environment (Ranked #1 (tie) speaker score for all MCT events with 9.0/9.0)

TechEd North America, May 2011, Atlanta, GA.

  • Presentations: The Hyper-V Cloud: What, Why and How (Ranked #1 in Virtualization), Failover Clustering and Hyper-V: Planning your Highly-Available Virtualization Environment (Ranked #2 in Virtualization)

  • Conducted four technical interviews for TechNet Edge

  • Lab: Failover Clustering Introduction with Windows Server 2008 R2

Netherlands TechDays, April 2011, Hague, Netherlands

  • Presentations: Failover Clustering and Hyper-V: Multi-Site Disaster Recovery, Failover Clustering and Hyper-V: Planning your Highly-Available Virtualization Environment

Belgium TechDays, April 2011, Antwerp, Belgium

  • Presentations: Failover Clustering and Hyper-V: Multi-Site Disaster Recovery, Failover Clustering and Hyper-V: Planning your Highly-Available Virtualization Environment

Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals Jump Start Training, March 2011, Virtual Conference

  • Designed, created, delivered and evangelized 3-day course, “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals” for Microsoft Learning (MSL)

  • Highest Attendance (2200+ live viewer) and NSAT (168) at the time for any MSL Jump Start training program

  • Over 150,000 video replays

  • Microsoft Exhibition of Excellence Finalist for Best Collaboration Project, 2012: Microsoft Jump Start Training Series with IT Pro Evangelism and Microsoft Learning

  • Microsoft Exhibition of Excellence Finalist for Most Impactful Project, 2012: Microsoft Jump Start Training Series with IT Pro Evangelism and Microsoft Learning

  • Microsoft Exhibition of Excellence Finalist for Best Collaboration Project, 2011: Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals Training with Microsoft Learning and Developer and Platform Evangelism

Microsoft Management Summit, March 2011, Las Vegas, NV.

  • Conducted three technical interviews for TechNet Edge

MVP Summit, March 2011, Redmond, WA.

  • Cluster MVP lead, planning all Cluster MVP events and presentations

TechReady 12, February 2011, Seattle, WA.

  • Presentations: Failover Clustering and Hyper-V: Multi-Site Disaster Recovery, Failover Clustering and Hyper-V: Planning your Highly-Available Virtualization Environment, Failover Clustering with Hyper-V 101: Everything you Wanted to Know but were Afraid to Ask

  • Head Instructor for Lab: Failover Clustering 101: Build a High-Availability Cluster in just 1 hour! (Ranked #3 in Server)

  • Designed Lab: Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2 (Tied #1 in Server, Tied #4 Overall)

  • Clustering Expert at ‘Ask the Experts’ event

Seattle Windows Networking User Group, January 2011, Bellevue, WA.

  • Presentation: High-Availability for Hyper-V Virtual Machines

TechEd Europe, 2010, Berlin, Germany

  • Presentations: Disaster Recovery by Stretching Hyper-V Clusters across Sites (Ranked #10 in Virtualization), Failover Clustering 101: Everything you Wanted to Know but were Afraid to Ask (Repeated Session), Failover Clustering and Hyper-V: Planning your Highly-Available Virtualization Environment, Failover Clustering in 2008 R2: What's New in the #1 High-Availability Solution, Failover Clustering with Hyper-V Unleashed in Windows Server 2008 R2

  • Designed Lab: Implementing High Availability

  • Manned team’s product booth

TechReady 11, 2010, Seattle, WA.

  • Head Instructor for Lab: Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2 with the PMs (Ranked #1 in Server, Top 10 Overall Presenter out of about 1100)

  • Designed Lab: Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2

  • Clustering Expert at ‘Ask the Experts’ event

TechEd North America, 2010, New Orleans, LA.

  • Presentations: Failover Clustering Deployment Success, Disaster Recovery by Stretching Hyper-V Clusters across Sites (Ranked #4 in Virtualization), Failover Clustering with Hyper-V Unleashed with Windows Server 2008 R2 (Ranked #5 in Virtualization)

  • Designed Lab: Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2

  • Manned team’s product booth

TechReady 10, 2010, Seattle, WA.

  • Presentation: Failover Clustering Deployment for your Critical Workloads

  • Head Instructor for Lab: Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2 with the PMs (Ranked #1 in Server)

  • Designed Lab: Implementing High-Availability (Ranked #3 in Server)

  • Clustering Expert at ‘Ask the Experts’ event

MVP Summit, 2010 Redmond, WA.

  • Presentation: Deploying Clusters for your Critical Workloads

  • Cluster MVP lead organized all Cluster MVP events and presentations

US Partner Group Delta Force Conference for Architects and Senior Level Implementers, 2009, Redmond, WA.

  • Presentation: Failover Clustering Enhancements in Windows Server 2008 R2

TechReady 9, 2009, Seattle, WA.

  • Presentation: Higher Availability with Failover Clustering (Ranked #7 in Server)

  • Designed Lab: Failover Clustering in WS08R2 (Ranked #1 in Server, #9 Overall, 5th most downloaded lab)

  • Clustering Expert at ‘Ask the Experts’ event

TechEd North America, 2009, Los Angeles, CA.

  • Presentations: Multi-Site Clustering in WS08 Enterprise (Ranked #7 in Server), Failover Clustering Feature Roadmap, Failover Clustering Unleashed QandA Session

  • Created Lab: Failover Clustering in WS08R2 (Ranked #3 in Server)

  • Manned team’s product booth

Windows Server Feature Focus, 2009, Virtual Conference

  • Presentations: Failover Cluster 101, Introduction to Hyper-V with Failover Clustering, Failover Clustering in R2 Feature Roadmap, CSV and Live Migration

  • Hosted a live chat

MVP Summit, 2009, Redmond, WA.

  • Cluster MVP lead (2009) organized all Cluster MVP events and presentations

TechReady 8, 2009, Seattle, WA.

  • Lab Proctor

  • Clustering Expert at ‘Ask the Experts’

TechEd EMEA, 2008, Barcelona, Spain

  • Presentations: Failover Clustering with Windows 2008 R2, Introducing WS2008 R2 Cluster Shared Volumes, Windows Server 2008 High Availability and Failover Clustering

  • Head Instructor for Lab: Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering (repeated twice)

Technology Adoption Program Summit, 2008, Bellevue, WA.

  • Attended and Organized Clustering Presentations

TechReady 7, 2008, Seattle, WA.

  • Lab Proctor

  • Clustering Expert at ‘Ask the Experts’

TechEd North America, 2008, Orlando, FL.

  • Presentations: Building Highly Available Infrastructures, Enterprise Storage and Understanding Quorum, Top Ten Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering Enhancements

Seattle Windows Networking User Group, 2008, Bellevue, WA.

  • Presentation: Introduction to Windows Server Failover Clustering

 MVP Summit, 2008, Redmond, WA.

  • Cluster MVP lead organized all Cluster MVP events and presentations

TechReady 6, 2008, Seattle, WA.

  • Lab Proctor

 

Other Interests

Symon currently lives in downtown Seattle and enjoys technology; college basketball, NFL and UFC; playing foosball, golf and Frisbee; classic rock and electronic music; movies; modern and classic painting; blackjack strategy; juggling and other ‘circus arts’. He has traveled extensively to most US States and over 40 countries in Europe and the Americas.

 

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