Veeam Legends Directory

Product Lead at Aspire Technology Solutions with over 30 years of experience in IT.

Background in VMware & Wintel platforms and now focused on providing innovative data resiliency solutions.

Holder of VMCE & VMCA certifications.

Big NFL & LFC fan.

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Community Manager at Object First with 20 years experience in IT. Deep background in Backup & Replication, focusing on Automation & Kubernetes. Holds VMCE, VMCA, all of the current Kubernetes certifications, KCNA, CKAD, CKA & CKS. Guest instructor at Kasten by Veeam Kubernetes Learning site.

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Chris works for ThinkOn as the Principal Cloud Architect. He has a passion for technology & stays on top of the ever-evolving IT realm. He’s a Veeam Vanguard 7*, Veeam Legend 3*, vExpert 5*, and VMCA/VMCE certified. He is also the author of Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10/11/12 by Packt Publishing.

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With 10 years of specialization in Microsoft and Veeam solutions, Damien is an IT consultant at Axians Cloud Builder is skilled in VMCE, VMCA, VCP-DCV, MCSA, and MCSE.

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Antonio is a Senior Backup Engineer and has more than 25 years IT experience. Now works to design and implementation of backup and disaster recovery infrastructure. his experience has allowed him to deepen various arguments as virtualization, sysadmin, storage and BC/DR.

He is a Veeam Legend and VUG Leader for Italy.

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Danny de Heer is a Senior Cloud consultant at Integra Cloud Solutions located in Uithoorn, NL.
Working with VMware and Veeam for almost 10 year. Scripting enthusiast.

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As a Security and Data Management Team Leader at Monaco Digital, with 15 years of experience in IT on both the customer and service provider sides. Philippe is in charge of developing the business and producing various projects related to data protection. With a strong background in Cyber Security, Cyber Resilience, Data Management, and Data Protection. He tries to share his knowlegde with the community to help companies in their digital transformation while safeguarding their crucial assets. He is also author on Original-Network.com blog independent blog created by Christopher Glemot. Veeam Legend and VMCE.

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Experienced IT Infrastructure Professional working for Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY). Founder of TechDirectArchive! In addition to his passion for sharing knowledge and engaging with the community, he has a significant record of achievement in the areas of technology/project delivery, operations management, and IT service management. He is a Microsoft MVP, Object First Ace, vExpert, and Cisco Champion

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First Intake

Marco is a Certified Ethical Hacker working for IT4YOU based in Italy, with a strong focus on cybersecurity as a pentester and senior system administrator. CEH, EWPT, EJTP, MCSA and many other certifications. He's a Veeam Legends (2022-23), Cyber Security Space Leader and VUG Italy's Leader.

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Working as Global Infrastructure Business Analyst, passionate about virtualization, data protection and technology,

With more that 20 years of experience in the IT world. Now focused on helping others and share knowledge and experiences. vExpert, Object First Ace, VMUG Leader, VUG Leader, Blogger, Father, Husband, Friend.

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Second Intake

Markus is a Senior Consultant at FREICON GmbH & Co. KG and has also been running the small company 4IT GmbH with a business partner since 2021, with a pure focus on consulting in the data center sector.

Working as an IT professional since 1999, he has focused on solutions from Veeam & VMware since over 15 years. He holds multiple certifications from Veeam, VMware and DELL.

Veeam Certified Architect & Veeam Certified Engineer, VMware Certified Implementation Expert.

Proud father of 3 children and he loves to hike with his labrador retriever.

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First Intake

25+ years’ of enabling businesses success through technology. Currently backup solution architect, monitoring & automation guru, and senior systems engineer for an MSP near London.

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First Intake

Presales Consultant with more than 10 years of experience, supports our partners by understanding customer needs, presenting and demonstrating our vendors’ products and helping in deal closing.

Certified with distinctions including NCSE, NCM-MCI, VMCE, VCAP-DTM & DCV, VCP-NV & CMA.

My ability to seamlessly integrate Nutanix, VMware, and Veeam solutions into complex IT ecosystems has enabled organizations to achieve unprecedented levels of agility and performance.

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Tyler Jurgens is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Cloud Infrastructure, Backup, and Disaster Recovery at Stage2Data Inc. He’s a Veeam Legend, vExpert, Tanzu Vanguard, Netbox Advocate, and has his VMCE and VCP. He has a passion for technology and community building, running the Calgary VMUG community. Family is his passion above all, so expect proud Dad conversations from him about his children.

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First Intake

Maurice Kevenaar is a System Engineer at INFO located in Amsterdam, NL, Package maintainer and moderator for the Chocolatey Community Repository (CCR), contributor to OSS projects. Creator of Veeam Chocolatey packages and BoxStarter scripts.

Techblog ▪ Chocolatey ▪Twitter ▪ LinkedIn ▪ GitHub ▪ Community Hub

I am Head of IT at Buhl Data Service, leading a Team of Experts for managing modern Datacenter solutions (with a focus on Virtualization, Cloud Native/K8s and Security). Working on this for over 20 years. Besides managing the Team, designing HA & Backup solutions, i still love the occasional network troubleshooting with tcpdump & Wireshark.

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An IT Infrastructure Engineer with over 10 years experience in the IT Industry. A Veeam Legend currently based in London and the South East of England with a strong focus on Cloud technologies, data backup and recovery, and Security Operations. "I'm a massive fan of the Veeam Community. There is no other one like it!"

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Senior Systems Engineer at Kidwell Technologies in Omaha, Nebraska focusing on SMB’s after spending several years at a private cloud service provider.  With over 20 years of IT experience, Derek is VCP6-DCV and CCNA certified with a focus on Data Protection and Business Continuity, Virtualization, Infrastructure and Cloud Services.

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Nico works as a Senior Infrastructure Consultant and Architect at ORBID NV in Belgium.
His main focus is on virtualization, backup, DR and storage.
Holder of technical certifications from Veeam and Datacore: VMCA, VMCE, DCIE and DCSA.
He is a Veeam Legend and VUG Leader of BeLux.
He stands for defining and implementing best practices. He's also a proud father of three children.

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Michael is co-founder and CTO of idicos and is based in the Southwest of Germany. He has 25+ years of experience in IT business and is working on VMware virtualization technologies since 2002. Michael’s focus is on sizing and securing resilient infrastructures to meet all aspects of business continuity and cloud technologies.

Being an active Veeam certified trainer he also is VMCE, VMCA and holds several vendor certifications such as VCP-DCV, MCP and DCIE.

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Second Intake

Jochen works as a Consultant and Architect working for T-Systems in Germany. He has with more than 25 years of experience with different software and hardware vendors. Focus is on the design and implementation of IT infrastructures in the areas of backup/restore , disaster recovery, storage and virtualization.

He holds technical certifications with various vendors and is member of the Veeam Legends program since 2021.

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Scott has 20 years of IT experience focusing on Veeam, VMware, SAN and disaster recovery. He has also maintained everything from Tape, to IBM 3890 systems. While not at work, you can find him playing drums in one of his bands.

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First Intake

Michael is a Data Protection Consultant based in the South West of England. Michael is a Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard, and VMware vExpert. Michael focuses on Veeam, VMware and Microsoft technologies.

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Senior System Engineer in an Enterprise Telecommunications Company. Over 25 years of experience in IT, Virtual environments, Datacenter & Cloud (Azure) with Microsoft focus :MCP,MCTS, MCITP,MCSA x3, MCSE x2 Core Infrastructure & Coud Platform - Azure Administrator Associate - Vmware: VCP-DCV 2022, specialized in data protection & DR systems - Veeam: Veeam Legend - VMCE - VMCA.

Security-oriented. (Backups are never enough!).

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He has been working in the IT world since 2011, starting as a Microsoft systems engineer and then becoming an end-to-end system administrator. Specialized in virtualization, with a strong passion for data protection and disaster recovery projects.

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First Intake

Cary is a Principal Consultant with strong background in datacenter & deployment solutions, spent over 25 years in planning, design & implementation of network technologies, management & system integration. Holds CISCO CERTIFIED INTERNETWORK EXPERT (CCIE No.4531) from 1999, also a Microsoft MVP

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Cloud Solutions Architect based in Toronto with over 20 years’ experience on both the customer and service provider sides. He started working with Veeam for Hyper-V and transitioned to the VMWare product a little later. Currently, he is focusing on the Veeam backup products for Cloud: M365, AWS, Azure, GCP, and Salesforce. Hin holds current VMCE2021 and VMCA2022 as well as Azure and AWS certification. 

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System and network administrator since the early days of "the new economy" (2000), lover of virtualization and of Veeam since ten years ago.

Alessandro like to learn, share and teach. He has has been working in different business.

Currently employed as consultant, based in Bologna and Rome, Italy. 

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Systems Architect with over 20yrs in the IT industry across multiple business disciplines. IT Generalist specializing in BC/DP/DR, storage, infrastructure & systems automation. Guest blogger and various tech cert Study Guide creator.

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Michael is an IT admin in a mid-sized company in western Austria. Being an IT-one-man-show in the company requires knowlege in serveral areas like veeam, availability, networks, Fortinet and security, Microsoft technologies, SQL servers, vmware, analytics, Java and so on.

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