Iwan Hoogendoorn

Iwan Hoogendoorn started his IT career in 1999 as a help desk agent. Soon after, he started to learn Microsoft products and obtained MCP, MCSA, MCDBA, and MCSE certifications. While working as a Microsoft Systems Engineer, Iwan developed additional skills and knowledge in computer networking. Networking became a passion in his life. This passion resulted in learning networking with Cisco products. One of Iwan's dreams was to work for Cisco. But before this could happen, he first needed to...See more

Iwan Hoogendoorn started his IT career in 1999 as a help desk agent. Soon after, he started to learn Microsoft products and obtained MCP, MCSA, MCDBA, and MCSE certifications. While working as a Microsoft Systems Engineer, Iwan developed additional skills and knowledge in computer networking. Networking became a passion in his life. This passion resulted in learning networking with Cisco products. One of Iwan's dreams was to work for Cisco. But before this could happen, he first needed to finish his bachelor's degree in ICT, which he completed in 2009. In early 2010, he started working for his dream company, Cisco. After finishing his master's degree (part-time) in computer science at the University of Amsterdam and becoming a CCIE (#13084) in six different technology areas, Iwan wanted to learn something new, and that was virtualization. Because networking was something that ran through his veins, network virtualization was the next logical step. So he decided tolearn VMware NSX. Iwan got the opportunity to work for VMware in 2016 as Senior NSX PSO Consultant. In his time at VMware, he gained more knowledge on private and public clouds and the related products that VMware developed to build the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). As new technology is growing at a rapid pace (especially within VMware and the VMware cloud space), Iwan is trying to keep up. After working for four years as Senior NSX PSO Consultant (primarily with VMware NSX-v and NSX-T), Iwan was promoted to Staff SDDC Consultant, focusing on the full SDDC stack that includes Hyperscaler offerings on the main public clouds such as AWS (VMC on AWS), Microsoft (Azure VMware Solution), and Google (Google Cloud VMware Engine). Iwan is certified on multiple VMware products, including NSX, and he is actively working together with VMware certification to develop network-related exams for VMware. Next to his VMware certifications, Iwan is also AWS andTOGAF certified. Iwan is the author of the Apress book, Getting Started with NSX-T: Logical Routing and Switching . See less