Marcelo Soares
Marcelo Soares - Associate Instructor
Marcelo has over 25 years of experience in IT consultancy, with more than 15 years dedicated to working closely with VMware technologies such as vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SRM, and Tanzu. He utilizes automation and orchestration tools like PowerCLI, Orchestrator, and Terraform to ensure compliance and standardization in deployments and best security practices.
Over the past 10 years, Marcelo has delivered over 200 VMware training sessions worldwide in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. His exceptional teaching skills have earned him recognition as VMware Instructor of Excellence in 2022 and VMware Instructor of the Year for the Americas (AMER) in 2023.
He has also been awareded vExpert 2011-2017.
Industry Awards and Certifications
Awards
VMware Instructor of Excellence – AMER 2022
VMware Top 10 Certified Instructor – AMER 2023
VMware Certified Instructor of the Year – AMER 2023
vExpert 2011-2017
Certifications
VMware Certified Instructor
Level 1 & 2 (2013+)
VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Datacenter Virtualization
VCAP-DCA 5
VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization
VCP-NV2022/2019
VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization
VCP-DV2024/2022/2019/6/5/4/3
VMware Certified Professional - Desktop and Mobility
VCP-DT6
Dell Storage Foundations 2023
Dell PowerScale Deploy 2023
New Relic Certified Instructor
VMware/Broadcom Authorized Class List
VCI Certified Course List - Marcelo Soares.pdf