Adam Weeks
Senior Technical Instructor @Pure Storage
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Technical Instructor @Pure Storage
Staines-upon-Thames, GB
Delivery of FlashArray, FlashBlade and Portworx technical training (Online, in-person ILT and pre-recorded on demand) with exceptional NPS scoring from students.Trained other instructors (onboarding, Kubernetes and Portworx) bringing them up to speed to be able to deliver high quality technical instruction.Developed Beyond the basics - in depth technical pre-sales training on Kubernetes and Portworx - in 2021. This included a simple app (a calculator) written in a traditional style, then rewritten as cloud-native (Kubernetes pods and then a Kubernetes Deployment). This is still in use today.Instrumental in expanding our pre-sales training portfolio to incorporate Pure\'s Platform (adding Evergreen, Portworx and Fusion training) with the involvement of Product managers from other BUs within Pure.Assisted in the development of Pure\'s certification exam workshops, helping design the outline, vet questions, and develop certification exam questions.I assisted in helping develop Pure\'s SE Bootcamp in-person sessions by creating the technical agenda by working with SE Leadership and existing field SEs and delivering whiteboard technical sessions for SEs.Automated our exam voucher delivery system using Google App Script and ExamStudio\'s REST API.Developed useful training assistance tools- Online timer for breaks/indicating when online training sessions will start- Purity striping at work, which illustrates Erasure coding usage by Purity on FlashBlade.
EDUCATION
The Henley College
BND IT Applications
University of Plymouth
Honours Degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
SKILLS
ABOUT ADAM WEEKS
Highly Experienced Senior Technical Enablement Trainer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer storage industry. Skilled with Block, Object, File and Cloud-Native, scale-up & scale-out architectures and traditional to cutting edge modern storage technologies as well as exam and course development experience. Highly experienced in training customers, partner organisations and employees at any technical ability and making training engaging and intuitive. I also have experience and I am passionate about developing class materials (with multiple successful projects with ILT slides, video training and Labs as examples).Strong information technology professional with a BSc(Hons) Degree focused in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications from University of Plymouth.I am passionate, experienced and extremely customer focussed when it comes to enablement delivery and development. I really love teaching technical concepts and I am unashamedly geeky, I think both of these passions are very apparent to anyone I have had the pleasure of teaching!Please note: I am not interested in any roles in which I am not actively teaching and developing course material in technical subjects.
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