I know how much everybody loves the “I got a job” posts. Seen some tweets recently from some people who don’t like that people make a huge deal out of it. I get it, but I will be part of the problem today. I signed a new job offer this morning!

Now, before I get to what and where that is, I need to call out a laundry list of people who have helped to make my career at VMware possible. Brad Christian was the reason I got to join VMware in the first place. He heard me talking NSX at a VMUG event, hit me up on twitter, and asked if I wanted to sell NSX. Never imagined I would be the right candidate for it, as most of my  colleagues are serious networking guys. But here we are. Sean Howard, my first manager who gave me a shot. He knew I wasn’t the long time Cisco guy, but we got along really well and he took a shot. All of my teammates this past two years who have helped me along. We really are the Dream Team. We’ve had a lot of managers, but always remained a strong team. Sean, Sachin, Dave, David, and the entire management crew have been fantastic.

Paul B and The Dom Father. Two of the greatest Senior Managers of all time. I strive daily to do my job half as well as they do theirs. They run the finest damn pirate ship on the globe.

Now, at this point, you’re probably wondering where I am going. Am I staying at VMware? Am I leaving? What is happening? Why are you still reading this? AM I GOING TO MICROSOFT?!

No, I am staying at VMware. Obviously. I bleed our green and blue now. I worked so hard to get into this company, I refuse to leave it. But, I am making a really huge shift. I am following in the footsteps of Sean “Fancy Pants” O’Dell and running to the land of VMware Cloud Services! I will be a Technical Cloud Specialist for the VCS team under Bill Shetti. Huge thanks to my colleague Prabhu Barathi for helping me realize that this was the gig for me. Started out as just having a conversation, and turned into something I knew I had to be a part of. A fundamental shift in the way that VMware does business. All of those customers out there who are making the huge push to the cloud, we have tons of tools to help them be successful. Look forward to a ton of cool new stuff out of VMware. Things you never thought we would do!

But, don’t worry. I will always rep team #RunNSX. The Virtual Cloud Network is the future of the business network.

Be on the lookout for a ton of new stuff from me, and the rest of the VCS team!

-vTimD