Ever heard the term "Jack of all trades, master of none"? Well, I am known as "Michael of all trades, master of most". I have been a part of several role-based aspects of the Telecommuications and IT industry from everything as a systems admin, applications engineer, enterprise architect, MySQL administrator, virtualization subject matter expert and even as an infrastructure / solutions architect.

When it comes to hardware / OS platforms, I have been around since the days of Solaris, HP/UX, SCO and several Linux distros including Slackware, Mandrake, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, SuSe, Ubuntu. I have been an active contributor to using Xen and VMware virtualization platforms. I have been working with cloud architectures including Terremark / Verizon, Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS environments for several years as well.