Advanced Enterprise Virtualization

About Shannon Snowden

Consulting Partner, New Age Technologies

Shannon Snowden is an Consulting Partner for New Age Technologies, an IT consulting firm headquartered in Louisville, KY. He has been focused on delivery of virtualization solutions and training for as long as the major vendors have been doing production virtualization and was one of the first four public students to get the VMWare Certified Professional designation delivered via a hand-written exam and his official VCP number is 12. Shannon became the first certified trainer for North America on XenServer version 3.2 and XenEnterprise 4.0; some of his certifications include VMWare Certified Professional VCP#12, Citrix XenSource Certified Professional, Citrix Certified Instructor, Novell Certified Linux Professional, Certified Novell Instructor, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Microsoft Certified Trainer.

While these certifications allow Shannon to teach classes, he places more value on practical field experience to learn how things actually work in the real world. While he enjoys teaching classes, his primary focus is on project delivery. Shannon has had the good fortune to be able to perform countless virtualization design and delivery engagements. These projects have ranged from small-sized organizations up to Fortune 100 companies and he considers each project as adding to the depth and breadth of his experience and knowledge.