About

Mr. Hinderer has over 14 years of experience in the architectural design and management of mission critical systems and infrastructure. He currently serves as a Network Engineer at MCPc, focusing on large virtualization deployments of Cisco UCS, VMware vSphere, and Cisco Route / Switch designs. Mr. Hinderer recently served as a Systems Analyst for Cisco Systems – Cisco Technical Education where he developed and managed the CTE Advanced Education portal and supporting infrastructure. His roles and responsibilities at 01.com ranged from designing to overseeing new client VMware and Zimbra deployments and implementations to the architecture and design of the VMware based, private/public cloud hosted environments.

While at the CampusEAI Consortium, Mr. Hinderer served as the Director of Product Support and Hosted/Managed Services. Mr. Hinderer joined CampusEAI Consortium from Broadvox, where he served as Director of Management Information Systems and oversaw daily network operations for Broadvox’s global IP telecommunications network, as well as it’s customer portal development. At Broadvox, Mr. Hinderer lead the companies efforts in CallWeaver development for VoIP based fax solutions. Before joining Broadvox, Mr. Hinderer held various executive and technical positions with Ameritech, NASA, and the United States Army.

Mr. Hinderer attended the University of Maryland and was an Air Traffic Controller in the United States Army.

Influences: Brian Behlendorf (Apache) Kirk McKusick (Berkeley Unix) Tim O’Reilly (Publisher, O’Reilly & Associates) Bruce Perens (Debian Project, Open Source Initiative) Tom Paquin and Jim Hamerly (mozilla.org, Netscape) Eric Raymond (Open Source Initiative) Richard Stallman (GNU, Free Software Foundation, Emacs) Michael Tiemann (Cygnus Solutions) Linus Torvalds (Linux) Paul Vixie (Bind) Larry Wall (Perl)

Specialties

Cloud Architecture and Design/VMware/Cisco UCS/Cisco Route-Switch/Linux/Unix/Shell Scripting/Interpreted Programming Languages/Project Managment

VMware Certified Professional, VCP# 74783 / VTSP / Linux+ / Sun SCSA