Jon Hall (Clearwater, FL) is a Certification Development, Technical Training and Education Services Management Professional who spent over 11 years working directly for VMware Education Services. He was involved in the development of several of VMware's certifications including VCA, VCP and VCAP certifications in Data Center, Cloud Management and Automation, Desktop and Mobility and Network Virtualization. Jon currently holds 13 VMware certifications, as well as certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, HP and others. Jon is a strong believer in the use of training and certification to develop dedicated technical evangelists, and has spoken at many technical events including a combined 20 VMworld, VMworld Europe and Partner Exchange events. Jon has also acted as a Technical Editor in the past on 3 official VMware certification guides. You can follow him on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/halljon.