Name: Denny Cherry
Blog URL: http://www.mrdenny.com
Twitter handle: @mrdenny
Current employer: Self
How did you get into IT?
My father worked in IT when I was a kid for a now defunct mainframe company called WordPlex. I’ve always had computers around me, and how they worked has always interested me, so getting into IT was a pretty natural step for me.
How did you get into working with VMware and becoming a 2012 vExpert?
I first started working with VMware back in the ESX 3.5 days at my first company that was using it where we ended up virtualizing a very large percentage of the servers at the company. Over the years I’ve been giving presentations on how SQL Server should be best configured within VMware’s vSphere.
What would you tell someone who wanted to get a job like yours to do?
I’d tell someone to jump in with both feet. It’s a great job, but it does take a while to get setup with clients. It is a blast to work on the various different projects though.