Hey there, my name is Christian Mohn #
Come say hello to me on Twitter, Mastodon at vmst.io/@h0bbel or Bluesky cmohn.bsky.social
I live in Bergen, Norway, and I’m as old as the original Rocky movie. I currently work as a Chief Technologist for Proact IT Norge AS, where I help architect and build virtual datacenters as well as secure them.
I’m an IT industry “veteran”, podcaster, author and blogger that has survived close to 30 years of real world IT experience. I’ve been running blog of some sorts for the better part of those 30 years too, which is kinda scary.
For some reason, I am a fourteen time VMware vExpert (2011-2024), and vExpert Pro. Previously I’ve been a vExpert Cloud Management (2019) and an inaugural vExpert vSAN, VMware EUC Champion (2015-2020). I am an ex-PernixPro, and five time Veeam Vanguard (2015-2019).
I also hold various VMware certifications, and I’m also an SME for the VMware certification program.
Once upon a time, I also wrote a book called Learning Veeam® Backup & Replication for VMware vSphere.
I have also been featured as a cartoon, twice. Once for Rubrik who made trading cards for VMworld 2017, and once for Proact who made a rather spiffy animated video.
Currently serving as the vice-chairman of the the Norwegian VMware User Group (VMUG) leadership team and has helped launch VMUG in three Norwegian cities; Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim.
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For more details on work experience, certifications and such, check LinkedIn. I tend to update that more frequently than this page. You can also have a look at my Credly page.
For a more detailed list of content I’ve created, or contributed to, elsewhere, have a look at this list.
On a more personal note, I’m a father of two, husband of one, and I have a potentially overshadowing passion for football – I’ve been a football coach for various girls teams in Bergen for a total of 11 years.
I prefer my coffee black as midnight on a moonless night, beer with taste, and Whisky that tastes like peat fire.
I have some stuff hosted on GitHub, including this entire site which is now published using Hugo. Previous incarnations of the site has been published using Wordpress.
As I’m a rather passionate hobby photographer, you can find most of my published photos on 500px. If, and I don’t know why, you want to know what music I’m listening to, check out last.fm.
I have also published a few things over at Medium, some of which I’m actually kind of proud of.
- Here goes nothing.
- Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
- Perspective. Why not get some? It’s good for you, and I promise you’ll like it.
- A Fools Guide to Public Speaking
- My Personal Top 10 Albums of All Time.
- What about My ‘Man Card’?
- The Soundtrack of My Life — Nearly Gone.
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