David Marshall

Current

Director of Marketing and Business Development at Hyper9
Writer InfoWorld Virtualization Report at InfoWorld
Owner and Operator of VMBlog.com at VMBlog (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past

Director Business Development and Product Marketing / Subject Matter Expert at InovaWave
Senior Infrastructure Architecture Engineer / Subject Matter Expert at Surgient, Inc.
System's Engineer at ProTier

Deployment Manager / Technical Support Specialist at ProTier
Project Manager / System's Manager at Bank One
Supervisor Daily Recordkeeping at Bank One / Trust Department
Employee Benefits Analyst at Bank One / Trust Accounting
Investment Clearance Specialist at First Commerce Corporation

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Education

University of New Orleans
University of New Orleans
East Jefferson High School

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Recommended

20 people have recommended David

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

David Marshall’s Summary

As a software and systems architect who has been a pioneer in the virtualiation industry since 2000, I've helped design new software solutions that directly address the challenges faced by IT; and I've now started four virtualization specific companies that have each successfully raised venture capital funding. I'm a recognized virtualization subject matter expert who has published four virtualization specific books. I've written numerous magazine articles for publishers such as Virtual-Strategy, TechTarget, Network World and CIO magazine. I've been writing InfoWorld's Virtualization Report column since May of 2006, and I'm the owner and operator of one of the oldest and most successful virtualization news sites, VMBlog.com.

I offer the following:

• Desktop, Server and Application Virtualization expertise
• Ability to help early stage companies execute from idea development to product launch.
• Result oriented professional with experience in product marketing, branding, and public and analyst relations.
• A strong passion for social media and online marketing strategies with new media and Web 2.0 marketing.
• Datacenter infrastructure design and implementation
• Support center management and operations management
• Research and Development to help create and foster new technological ideas

Visit:
http://www.vmblog.com or http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization
where I offer insight, thoughts, and news centered around the virtualization market and the technologies that it has spawned.

Author of "VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center" Published by Auerbach Publishing. ISBN: 1420070274

Author of "Advanced Server Virtualization: VMware and Microsoft Platforms in the Virtual Datacenter" Published by Auerbach Publishing. ISBN: 0849339316

Technical Editor of "Virtualization for Dummies" Published by Wiley. ISBN: 978-0-470-14831-0

Technical Editor of "VMware VI3 For Dummies" Published by Wiley. ISBN: 978-0-470-27793-5

David Marshall’s Specialties:

Expertise with virtualization start-ups; Virtualization expertise with VMware, Citrix and Microsoft products. Have managed, deployed, and architected virtualization platforms and products for Fortune 1000 customers since 1999; Used Alpha stage virtualization products from Connectix, Microsoft and VMware; Citrix Metaframe and Presentation Server experience; Server architecture and administration with MS Windows 2000 and 2003 Server

David Marshall’s Experience

Director of Marketing and Business Development

Hyper9

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Writer InfoWorld Virtualization Report

InfoWorld

(Media Production industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

I am the author/writer of InfoWorld's Virtualization Report blog site and I record InfoWorld's Virtualization Report Podcast twice a week. The Virtualization Report is responsible for covering the latest information in the virtualization marketspace.
Owner and Operator of VMBlog.com
VMBlog (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Media Production industry)

December 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)

I am the owner and operator of one of the leading virtualization technology news and information Web sites in the industry. I've been covering the virtualization market news since 2003 and created this news site in 2005.
Director Business Development and Product Marketing / Subject Matter Expert

InovaWave

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2007 — October 2007 (10 months)

Helping to provide a series of revolutionary technologies in the Server and Desktop Virtualization markets.

Providing Vision, Direction and Technology Leadership through eight years of virtualization market expertise to help the company grow and provide the right products in an emerging market.

Identifying key players and partners and then bringing them together to help promote, sell and market InovaWave's products and expertise in the industry.
Senior Infrastructure Architecture Engineer / Subject Matter Expert

Surgient, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

May 2003 — January 2007 (3 years 9 months)

· Responsible for creating and driving the Surgient Reference Architecture for the company's hosted SaaS model
· Acted as the technical go between for Surgient's Data Center Operations Team and the Surgient Engineering Team
· Performed research and development to determine new technologies for implementation within the company
· Owned and operated the Surgient Engineering Lab
System's Engineer

ProTier

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2001 — May 2003 (2 years 2 months)

· Administered a server farm of more than 100 servers, including multiple Microsoft cluster servers in a state of the art data center facility
· Co-Developed automation scripts to perform day-to-day tasks. One such script allowed the creation and deployment of multiple Windows 2000 servers to be completed within 20 minutes
· Performed consulting and integration for a virtualized server solution using
VMware and Microsoft virtualization platforms for a number of Fortune 1000 clients
· Designed and implemented a solution to monitor ProTier's production data
center using NetIQ AppManager and integrated it with a 24x7 paging notification system
· Provided quality assurance testing of ProTier's software solution
· Instrumental in offering product enhancements and improvements to ProTier's software solution through testing and field implementations
· Redesigned and administered the company's datacenter tape backup solution
Deployment Manager / Technical Support Specialist

ProTier

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2000 — April 2001 (1 year )

· Provided 24x7 technical support to over 50 companies and approximately 500 users
· Deployed software applications, users and companies for VARs using the
ProTier ASP product
· Created a number of ASP software application packages to be deployed with Citrix Metaframe for the company's hosted customers
· Created and implemented policies and procedures around customer deployment
· Restructured and organized the company's help desk / customer service area to help reduce average response time through processes and education
Project Manager / System's Manager

Bank One

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ONE; Financial Services industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )

Co-directed the organizing and execution of all aspects of closing the Louisiana Recordkeeping Center.

Instrumental in the development, planning and implementation of the exiting procedures used throughout the country to successfully shift clients to a consolidated operation center.

Constructed a method to calculate Sub-TA fees as a source of revenue for Louisiana Recordkeeping, which totaled in excess of half a million dollars.

Programmed a number of test scripts to validate the Trust software as Y2K compliant. Coordinated with the national Y2K team to construct a disaster recovery manual that provided direction and procedures to be followed by National Recordkeeping in order to have the departments operational within 48 hours.

Developed the Louisiana Recordkeeping training manual used to guide and instruct all newly hired analysts.

Managed the system admins and all computer hardware and software in the department in order to maintain near 100% operational capacity
Supervisor Daily Recordkeeping

Bank One / Trust Department

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ONE; Financial Services industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Created and managed a new prototype daily recordkeeping plan that included a vast array of automated functions, including paperless loans, expanded use of the voice response unit, controlled contribution processing and controlled distribution payouts.

Managed daily contributions, distributions, loan initiations and payments along with trust reconciliations for over 8,000 participants with assets in excess of $100 million.

Co-developed an automated pricing and trading link that both increased accuracy to above 95% and decreased workload by 20%, thereby effectively allowing for a reduction in the error/loss budget and in headcount.

Managed and trained a team of customer service representatives that handled in excess of 1000 calls per week. Reduced average answer speed by 50% through team empowerment, cross training, and by analyzing work flows.

Instructed and trained new employees in all aspects of employee benefit accounting.
Employee Benefits Analyst

Bank One / Trust Accounting

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ONE; Financial Services industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Executed participant directed mutual fund trades on a daily basis.

Extracted mutual fund and stock prices from Bloomberg to update the participant accounting software with daily pricing.

Coordinated and processed daily contributions, distributions, loans, dividends and monthly pension payments.

Reconciled over 300 trust accounts each day with assets in excess of $800 million.

Maintained, voiced and upgraded the Louisiana Recordkeeping voice response unit.
Investment Clearance Specialist

First Commerce Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FCOM; Investment Management industry)

1993 — 1996 (3 years )

Facilitated the transfer of a high volume of fixed income and municipal bond trades within the Investment Management Division through various banking and financial clearing entities.

Developed a comparative matrix which ultimately lead to the decision of which of five clearing agents the First Commerce Corporation's brokerage firm should use.

Performed both a large sum and volume of government security transactions with various investment firms while shopping to provide Marquis Investment Consultants the best price to offer clients.

Designed a new automated method of performing the accounting functions on the clearance desk that subsequently decreased workload by 50% and eliminated 95% of all errors made.

Compiled data for all trades placed and all failed items on a daily blotter.

David Marshall’s Education

University of New Orleans

Information Technology Certification 1995 — 1996
University of New Orleans

BS , Finance with a concentration in Banking and Financial Institutions , August 1989 — May 1993

Jefferson Parish Valedictorian, National Merit Semi-Finalist, University of New Orleans Dean's List, University of New Orleans Decennial Honor Award

1993 University of New Orleans - Ranked #12 in the graduating class and ranked #1 graduating in Finance.

Activities and Societies:

Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society, Golden Key National Honor Society, Financial Management Association Honor Society
East Jefferson High School

1987 — 1989

Additional Information

David Marshall’s Websites:

David Marshall’s Groups:

VMware vExpert, IEEE, VMware VMTN, VMBlog, Grand Lodge of Louisiana F.&A.M., Perfect Union Lodge #1, Virtualization.info Vanguards, Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society, Golden Key National Honor Society, Financial Management Association Honor Society

Austin High-Tech
virtualization.info Vanguards
Freemasonry
Golden Key International Honour Society
Ancient Free & Accepted Masons (AF&AM)
National Honor Society
VMwareGuru
Freemasons
Masons Worldwide
University of New Orleans Alumni
eMarketing Association Network
VMware Virtual Community
VMware Virtualization & Cloud Computing Group
ThoseinMedia
Open Source Cloud Computing & Virtualization
Virtual Strategy Magazine Professionals Group
University of New Orleans Business Alumni
Innovative Marketing, PR, Sales, Word-of-Mouth & Buzz Innovators
Startup Specialists
VM People Virtualization & Cloud Group
Citrix Virtualization Technology
Cloud Computing
Microsoft Application Virtualization
Get me in VMware...
Virtualisation Management and Security
Virtualization in Austin Users Group
Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society
Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) Business Honor Society
The New Orleans Connection
Ex Bank One
New Orleans Saints Fans
vmware guru
Parallels Virtualization Group
Beta Gamma Sigma Networking
VMware VDI Users
University of New Orleans (UNO) Alumni
Virtual Tech Leader
Fans of the New Orleans Saints
twitter innovators Innovation & Creativity Network of Tweeters
Virtual Computer
Virtual Automation and Lab Management from Surgient for VMware,Microsoft Hyper-V
VMware vExpert
VMblog Virtualization Professionals Group