Dean has spent most of his IT career leading & delivering projects in both the educational & commercial sectors. Focusing his times & skills around networking & virtualisation. After moving to a IT service provider, leading a team of technical architects, focusing on presales & post-sales, providing overall technical design authority & strategy for the delivery of services to customers. Member of a number of evangelism programs including; Cisco Champion, VMware vExpert and Veeam Vanguard,

Sam is part of the Technical Marketing team for Cloud Automation at VMware. His technical expertise includes design, development and implementation of cloud platforms, automation, networking, Kubernetes and the VMware software-defined datacentre. Sam is a long-time vExpert, regularly presents at VMUGs, can be found blogging on his personal blog, and is a proud member of the VMware community - you can get in touch via @sammcgeown on Twitter.