Responsibilities include:

Instruction

• Teaching courses for customers, partners, distributors, and internal employees and education providers
• Conducting train the trainer sessions
• Working with fellow instructors to improve training materials and delivery
• Attending new course rollouts and delivering this training to partners and providers

Course Development

• Developing custom courses using and extending existing training curriculum
• Working with subject matter experts to validate course design and content
• Working with course developers and marketing to determine curriculum needs
• Updating and maintaining existing courseware and labs
• Supporting certification efforts

Academies

• Expand training offering, drive awareness of VMware Authorized training and certification program with Universities and Colleges

Other

• Traveling GCR to delivery training
• Supporting local instructors and enabling them to be certified
• Delivering co teaches/TTT’s other instructors
• Investigating, developing, and implementing programs for alternative education channels for customers and strategic partners, such as online “webinars”, eLearning, and technical awareness seminars
• Assisting in interviewing and selecting new technical trainers
• Mentoring new trainers, and providing support to other trainers, especially those based off-site
• Supporting VMware sales by acting as a strong advocate for VMware products both inside and outside classes, and assisting engineers in product development by discovering and reporting bugs and requesting new features in VMware products

Competencies:

• VMware certification instructor (VCI) (Most Prefered)
• 10+ years experience teaching technical material, preferably at the operating system level and below
• 5+ years experience developing technical training materials
• Strong Knowledge of systems administration, networking, client/server applications and hardware configuration:
• Good practical working ability with Linux and/or Windows utilities and applications

Experience using instructional design models including:

• Analyzing audience needs and tying them to business requirements
• Designing and developing student and instructor guides
• Creating tests and practical lab activities
• Practical knowledge of modern electronic education delivery channels (eLearning), systems (LMS))
• Excellent written and oral communication skills