Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso is passionate about technology, an evangelist, and a subject matter expert on cloud, virtualization, and management. He is an author and also a speaker at key technical events in Australia and New Zealand.

He has been the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Hyper-V since 2009. He leads major virtualization, UC&C, and AD and Exchange projects for large customers in APJ, closely collaborating and liaising with presales and sales teams to ensure client satisfaction and IT synergies. He has experience working within multigeographic and virtual teams.

He has in-depth knowledge across the Microsoft and VMware technologies stack. He holds the Microsoft MCSE+S and VMware VCP certifications. He also has experience leading complex global projects in his 24-year career in IT; he has worked in segments spanning the government, health, education, and IT services sectors.

He is an established manager with extensive leadership experience in all facets of IT management and functional management practices.

He recently authored the book, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook (http://wp.me/p15Fu3-mK), and reviewed the books, Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook, Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design, and VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook, all by Packt Publishing.

He is a blogger at http://cloudtidings.com/. You can also follow him on Twitter: @cloudtidings.