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Although the official confirmation has not yet arrived via email (same behaviour of last year or two years ago), it seems that (also) this year I was confirmed as a vExpert.

The list has published on the VMTN blog site: vExpert 2015 Announcement (for Q2 2015 see this post).

After the 2014 test (one application every three months), this year the vExpert program as slightly change again  with one application every six months… So new people will be announced in the second half of this year.

Also the number of people has grow (becoming comparable with MVP): there are al lot of vExperts this year, which is impressive!

With great pleasure I notice that many Italians have been confirmed, as well as new Italian (some well known) were added:

• Pietro Aiolfi – vExpert 2013, 2014, 2015 – @aiolfip
• Mauro Balbiani – vExpert 2014, 2015
• Francesco Bonetti – vExpert 2014, 2015 – @fbonez
• Samuele Cerutti – vExpert 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 – @samuelecerutti
• Fabio Chiodini – vExpert 2013, 2014, 2015 – @FabioChiodini
• Luca Dell’Oca – vExpert 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 – @dellock6
• Massimo Paolo Ferrari – vExpert 2014, 2015 – @crosslogic
• Manlio Frizzi – vExpert 2013, 2014, 2015 – @mfrizzi
• Giuseppe Guglielmetti – vExpert 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 – @gguglie
• Andrea Mauro – vExpert 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 – @Andrea_Mauro
• Massimiliano Mortillaro – vExpert 2013, 2014, 2015 – @darkkavenger
• Massimiliano Moschini – vExpert 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 – @maxmoschini
• Massimo Re Ferrè – vExpert 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 – @mreferre
• Pietro Piutti – vExpert 2014, 2015 – @stingray92
• Enrico Signoretti – vExpert 2012, 2014, 2015 – @esignoretti
• Piergiorgio Spagnolatti – vExpert 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 – @drakpz
• Rocco Pierpaolo Sicilia (Q2 2015) – vExpert 2013, 2014, 2015 – @roccosicilia

New entries 2015:

• Andrea Casini – vExpert 2015 – @andrea_casini
• Danilo Chiavari – vExpert 2015 – @danilochiavari
• Andrea Dainese – vExpert 2015 – @adainese
• Lorenzo Galelli – vExpert 2012, 2015 – @Virtually_LG
• Luca Ortolan
• Ermesto Pellegrino – vExpert 2015 – @vmugonline
• Alessandro Pietroniro Neto – vExpert 2015 – @alepietroniro
• Paolo Torresani – vExpert 2015 – @PaoloTTW
• Fabio Ribolla (Q2 2015) – vExpert 2015 – @FabioRibolla
• Lino Telera (Q2 2015) – vExpert 2015 – @linotelera
• Paolo Valsecchi (Q2 2015) – vExpert 2015 – @nolabnoparty
• Giuliano Bertello (Q2 2015) – vExpert 2015 – @GiulianoBerteo

Not confirmed on 2015:

• Alessio Carta – vExpert 2014
• Alan Civita – vExpert 2014 – @cianokuraz
• Fabrizio De Luca – vExpert 2014 – @fdlsistemi
• Fabio Rapposelli – vExpert 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 – @fabiorapposelli

Note that a “vExpert” is not a technical certification or even a general measure of VMware expertise. The judges selected people who were particularly engaged with their community and who had developed a substantial personal platform of influence in those communities. There were a lot of very smart, very accomplished people that weren’t named as vExpert.

Andrea Mauro

Virtualization, Cloud and Storage Architect. Tech Field delegate. VMUG IT Co-Founder and board member. VMware VMTN Moderator and vExpert 2010-24. Dell TechCenter Rockstar 2014-15. Microsoft MVP 2014-16. Veeam Vanguard 2015-23. Nutanix NTC 2014-20. Several certifications including: VCDX-DCV, VCP-DCV/DT/Cloud, VCAP-DCA/DCD/CIA/CID/DTA/DTD, MCSA, MCSE, MCITP, CCA, NPP.