This week, I've been awarded the 2012 Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for "System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management." The following e-mail arrived in my inbox on Monday evening:
"Dear Kevin Greene,
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2012 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management technical communities during the past year."
To receive this award is a real honour and it tops off a fantastic 12 months for me participating in the System Center world. I've made loads of new friends, had the privilege to present at the Irish and Northern Irish System Center 2012 launches, participated in numerous Community Evaluation Programs (CEP's) and even got a free ticket to MMS 2012 in Las Vegas as a result of winning the Private Cloud CEP contest!
The next 12 months are going to be really exciting too with the launch of our new book on System Center 2012 Operations Manager this month and the MVP Summit in Seattle in February to attend - not to mention also the MMS/TechEd 2013 conference in either New Orleans or Vegas!
There's so many people to thank for their support and help over the last year, but in particular I wanted to give a special mention to Gavin McShera, Art Coughlan and Dave Northey in Microsoft Ireland and also to Aidan Finn (Hyper-V MVP) and Damian Flynn (System Center MVP) for giving me guidance and helping with the nomination for MVP. Also, thanks to all my friends in the System Center community who work tirelessly to share their knowledge and advice any time it's needed.
A big mention has to go to my workplace friends and colleagues in Ergo who have given me the opportunity to work on pretty much nothing other than System Center projects for the last few years which has been a huge help in attaining an understanding of this fantastic suite of products.
Finally, a massive thanks has to go to my wife and son for putting up with all the late nights and weeks away from home over the last year and whose patience has been key to helping keep me focused on the work that I love!
Well deserved my friend! Hope to see you in February! Greets from Bob Cornelissen SCCDM MVP
ReplyDeleteCheers Bob,
DeleteThanks for all your help and support throughout the year too. I've no doubt that we'll link up in February!
Talk soon mate,
Kev.
Kev,
ReplyDeleteWell done never doubted once you would get this, a well deserved accolade, and many more to follow . Firstly I would like to say that you are one of the most "knowledge generous" people when it comes to assisting the common techie and expert alike , not only SCOM or Hyper-V but in all things technical, being able to blend diversty in compliance and conformity with performance and stability. On the many projects we , ( sorry, you ) worked on, it always amazed me how you could see solutions outside the box. You would analyze and think and come up with solutions that had not even been thought of yet. If there was a "microsoft Einstien" , I think that accolade should go to you. And also, extremely modest in your achievements, never bragging, always encourageing and educating, inparting knowledge at all times, teaching and learning from every expereince regardless of what the rules said. A true pioneer. Again congratulations and onward and upward. You always have time for anyone to help and assist.
Again well done, and the book should fly off the shelves.
"Keeping knowledge erodes power. Sharing is the fuel to your growth engine. Unknown quote"
Louis
Louis,
DeleteThanks for the kind words, although I'm not so sure most of them are true :)
Talk soon mate,
Kev
Kev,
DeletePutting it another way, you are a breath of much needed freash air in I.T. , honest, hard working and dedicated to the persuit of the truth and workable and lasting solutions to problems. most apply a band-aid to a gunshot wound or use others theories as the be all and end all fix. You go beyond that, you learn, apply analyze and learn more until the pronblem is resolved completely. You don't just do the job required, you look beyond to see the effect it has on other processes and make sure that the customer is left completely satisfied with your work and you don't stop until the customer is 100% sorted.
I worked over 25 years in I.T. and I have only come across one other that has the same drive and attention to detail that you have.
Louis
Cheers Louis!
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