About

About the GeekFluent author, Dave Henry:

The label “geek” didn’t come until later, but my love of all things tech was clear from age 2 on when I would disassemble whatever I could get my hands on and was clearly obsessed with anything that had knobs, buttons, levers, or sliders that anyone was foolish enough to leave within my reach.  (This still holds true today: If you don’t want something fiddled with or poked at, don’t leave it within arm’s reach of me (or un-firewalled…).)

For college, I went to a very technical engineering school, where a summer job as a third-shift janitor ended up leading to my first full-time as a Unix systems administrator back in 1987 (long story).  I’ve been earning my living in various IT-related jobs ever since.

I spent seven years at EMC Corporation in various technical roles, the last of which was Technical Marketing.  (This might sound like an oxymoron, but I’ve always had a talent for making oxymorons look good.)  It was in that role that I became the Community Manager/Facilitator for the Everything VMware at EMC online community, a role I continue today.

In April of 2012 I joined Accunet Solutions, a VAR that partners with both EMC and VMware (among others).  My role recently expanded there and I now lead both the Storage Practice and the Virtualization Practice.

I was also named a VMware vExpert for 2012 and, while I’m not always successful at it, I’ve been trying to be more active on the VMware online communities.  More recently, I was named as one of the founding members of the newly-launched EMC Elect program.

About This Site

I write the official blog of the Everything VMware at EMC online community. For obvious reasons, my writing there is all work-related and somewhat limited in scope, and appropriately so. Having a site of my own allows me to discuss broader topics that interest me, but fall outside the scope of my work.  There has been (and will continue to be) quite a bit of topic-overlap, as I’m fortunate enough to work in a field that I find very interesting and exciting.

Here I’ll be able to talk about a wider variety of topics, like all the cool things you can do with an Android phone, my recent DIM projects, everyday uses for mind maps, my love of whiteboards, and more virtualization topics.

About the Name

The site name, Geek Fluent, comes from a lot of what I do. I’ve often had conversations about how part of the value I bring at work is that I’m capable of speaking both fluent Geek and fluent Human. A lot of what I’ve done throughout my career has involved finding ways to explain very technical things to non-technical people in a way that has them not just understand, but really get it. (To a lesser, but no less important, extent, some of what I do also involves explaining non-technical things to very technical people.)

Disclaimers

This is my site and no one else’s. Any opinions expressed herein are, therefore, also mine and no one else’s (although I certainly welcome those who share them, as well as civil discussion with those who disagree aren’t yet convinced…).