Patrick Haggerty - The Ultimate Guide to Building a Google Cloud Foundation: A one-on-one tutorial with one of Googles top trainers

A one-on-one tutorial with one of Googles top trainers

Patrick Haggerty

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To my beautiful and loving wife Donna, who said, Of course you should try and write a book, and then supported me through the months of nights and weekends it took to make that happen. Couldnt have done it without you, baby love.

Patrick Haggerty was never quite sure what he wanted to be when he grew up, so he decided hed just try things until he figured it out. Thrown out of college at 20, he spent 4 years in the USMC learning responsibility (and to be a better apex predator). Out on a disability, he turned wrenches in a mechanic shop, worked tech support, studied Actuarial Science, and coded in more languages than he wants to remember. When a job asked him to run some internal training, he discovered a lifelong passion: helping people learn.

Patrick has worked as a professional trainer for 25+ years and spends most of his days working for ROI Training and Google, helping people learn to leverage Google Cloud.

Id like to thank Dave Carey, CEO of ROI Training (the #1 technical training org around), for being the best boss ever, and for keeping me solvent. Id like to thank Packt for reaching out and encouraging me to write this book, and then for all the great people they brought in to help. Finally, Id like to thank my fellow trainers and the people at Google who helped me answer all sorts of odd questions.

Hector Parra worked in corporate IT for more than 15 years, specializing in Failure Monitoring and Automatic Recovery. Four years ago, he joined Google as a Customer Solutions Engineer, helping the biggest customers in Spain and EMEA to make the most out of Google Cloud for their marketing needs, whilst completing an executive MBA degree at Quantic. Hector is a certified Google Cloud Digital Leader and co-leads Googles Mind the Gap program in Spain, which was created to encourage more young women to pursue science and engineering careers. In his spare time, Hector is a big fan of retro gaming, TV shows, and electronic music. He loves traveling with his wife, Eva, and spending quality time with his big family, especially his two beloved nephews and five grandchildren.

I would like to thank my family for their patience with the time and effort required to review this book. My knowledge about the cloud wouldnt be the same without the amazing contribution of my colleagues at Google, both in the cloud and marketing areas, from whom Ive learned so much. Thank you for these amazing last four years!