Burke has been a technology professional since 1996 and has held certifications from the CNCF, Cisco, Citrix, ITIL, Linux Professional Institute, Microsoft, Novell, and VMware. He joined VMware in 2007 as part of the
acquisition of Dunes Technologies from Lausanne, Switzerland where he had begun his work with Orchestrator. Burke is founder and contributor of the
vCOTeam.info blog as well as a leading contributor to the
VMTN Communities for Orchestrator. He has been recognized by the community as a
vExpert since 2010. During his tenure at VMware, Burke co-created the Orchestrator Masters Training program, has trained hundreds of employees on Orchestrator, built many integrations for customers and partners, and has worked various roles in the VMworld Hands On Labs. He has also been a member, and technical lead, of the
SDDC Livefire program, building content, labs, and vPods for the program. Publications include contributing author for ‘VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT)’ (VMware Press 2013) and technical resource for
‘VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition’,
‘VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook, and
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials (Packt Publishing 2015), Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator (VMware Press 2012), and VMware vSphere for Dummies (For Dummies 2011).