Burke Azbill

About Burke Azbill

Burke Azbill is a strong virtualization architect capable of mastering most technologies with minimal assistance or guidance. Most of his experience has been self training and hands on experience through his many years in the IT field. Working his way from up from a humble Help Desk technician up to Network Administration and Consulting, he has proven his technical abilities through many industry certifications and satisfied employers and clients.Burke has been recognized as a vExpert since 2011. He has completed a number of Lifecycle Manager and VMware vCenter Orchestrator customization projects for numerous organizations. At the end of 2011, Burke developed a vRO Master class which continues to be updated and taught today by his Livefire team. He is also the founder and contributing author at vCOTeam.info and and Current Certifications: vExpert (2011-Present)Previous Certifications Held:CKA: Certified Kubernetes AdministratorCKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application DeveloperMicrosoft Certified Professional + Internet (MCP+I)Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)Certified Novell Engineer (CNE)Certified Citrix Administrator (CCA)Linux Professional Institute Level 1 (LPIC-1)VMware Certified Professional in Virtual Infrastructure 3, 5.5 (VCP)Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

Experience

1. Product Marketing Engineer

   Broadcom

   Nov 2023 — Present

   After the Broadcom acquisition of VMware, Burke continues to support the development and delivery of Livefire Solutions. He leads the Livefire Lab team and is hands-on in managing the Lab Infrastructure and automation that powers the Livefire Labs environment. This includes the automation and integration to rapidly deploy lab environments for Internal and Partner attendees. The overall solutions leverage VMware Cloud Foundation, Cloud Director, Aria Automation, Aria Orchestrator, VMware Lab Platform, Route53, Horizon Desktops running Ubuntu, AVI Advanced Load Balancer, and Traefik.

Education

• Strayer University

  BSCN, Computer Networking

  2003 — 2006

Skills

• Pre-Sales
• Citrix
• Vdi
• Infrastructure
• Javascript
• Architecture
• Network Administration
• Software Development
• Vmware Esx
• Requirements Gathering
• Vcenter
• Solution Design
• Architectures
• Xml
• Dhcp
• Vcloud Director
• Storage
• Product Integration
• Vmware
• Technical Documentation
• Vcloud
• Sql
• Linux
• Cloud Computing
• Microsoft Certified Professional
• Html
• Vcenter Orchestrator
• Software Documentation
• Solution Architecture
• Vcp
• Apache
• Vmware Infrastructure
• Virtualization