This year the vExpert 2019 announce has taken much time compared with the vExpert 2018 announce, because of some changes in the votation process. But finally has arrived, with some changes from the past years (not only for the delay, but also with the list that has been reduced). And also this time I’ve been confirmed as a vExpert.
Note that “vExpert” is not a technical certification or even a general measure of VMware expertise, it’s much like an award.
Contributing is not always blogging or Twitter as there are many public speakers, book authors, CloudCred task writers, scriptwriters, VMUG leaders, VMTN community moderators and internal champions among this group.
The judges selected people who were particularly engaged with their community and who had developed a substantial personal platform of influence in those communities and big news, in the judges list there were also the vExpert Pro.
The official list it’s available on https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory site. But note that there isn’t yet an official list updated to 2019 entries (I think that some names are not updated).
Note (August 2019): the list has been update with vExpert 2019 Second Half Award Announcement.
About general vExpert there are a lot from Italy. Those has been confirmed for another year:
- Antonio Amoroso – vExpert 2016-2019 – @AAmoroso77
- Giuliano Bertello – vExpert 2017-2019 – @GiulianoBerteo
- Francesco Bonetti – vExpert 2014-2019 – @fbonez
- Alessandro Bruno – vExpert 2015-2019
- Danilo Chiavari – vExpert 2015-2019 – @danilochiavari
- Fabio Chiodini – vExpert 2013-2019 – @FabioChiodini
- Fabrizio De Luca – vExpert 2014-2019 – @fdlsistemi
- Luca Dell’Oca – vExpert 2011-2019 – @dellock6
- Manlio Frizzi – vExpert 2013-2019 – @mfrizzi
- Lorenzo Galelli – vExpert 2012-2019 – @Virtually_LG
- Andrea Mauro – vExpert 2010-2019 – @Andrea_Mauro
- Lorenzo Moglie – vExpert 2018-2019 – @lorenzomoglie
- Massimiliano Moschini – vExpert 2012-2019 – @maxmoschini
- Luca Ortolan – vExpert 2018-2019
- Pietro Piutti – vExpert 2014-2019 – @stingray92
- Raffaello Poltronieri – vExpert 2016-2019 – @raffapol
- Giovanni Ruotolo – vExpert 2018-2019 – @ivanruotolo
- Piergiorgio Spagnolatti – vExpert 2011-2019 – @drakpz
- Lino Telera – vExpert 2015-2019 – @linotelera
- Ivan Tresoldi – vExpert 2015-2019 – @itresoldi
- Paolo Valsecchi – vExpert 2015-2019 – @nolabnoparty
Those are new Italian vExpert:
- Nicola Marco Decandia
- Marco Scandaletti
- Beniamino Guarnaschelli (second half 2019)
Not re-confirmed on 2019:
- Pietro Aiolfi – vExpert 2013-2018 – @aiolfip
- Giuseppe Guglielmetti – vExpert 2011-2018 – @gguglie
- Paolo Torresani – vExpert 2015-2018 – @PaoloTTW
There are also a lot of interesting stats available at this page:
There are 1,525 vExper 2018 from 69 different counties. With the Q2 announce, there are 223 new vExperts from 41 countries.
This year there are 1,739 vExperts being honoured from 74 countries. That’s approximately 250 more than the same time last year and on par with vExpert numbers after the second half intake of 2018.
The United States are most represented with 639, followed by United Kingdom at 157. Note that 18 of those countries are represented by only 1 vExpert.
More stats are also available in this tweet:
Statistics for current vExperts 👍@vExpert @vExpertPRO @DCVMUG @VMware pic.twitter.com/PCcCq5pnOC
— Victor Wu 🇲🇴 (@umacboyvictor) 20 marzo 2019
The recently updated public vExpert directory can be found at https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory/