Joseph Holbrook - Architecting Enterprise Blockchain Solutions

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 10
9. Chapter 11

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12

Joseph Holbrook

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This book is dedicated to my soulmate and wife, Frida, my daughter Destiny, and my stepson Lenin for their full support. The effort required for the writing and completion of this book, of course, took hours away from them.

Joe Holbrook has been in the IT field since 1993, when he was exposed to several HPUX systems onboard USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67). He migrated from the UNIX networking world to storage area networking (SAN) and then on to enterprise cloud/virtualization and blockchain architectures. He has worked for numerous companies such as HDS, 3PAR Data, Brocade, Dimension Data, EMC, Northrup Grumman, ViON, Ibasis.net, Chematch.com, SAIC, and Siemens Nixdorf.

Joe has also been a contract technical trainer for HPE (3PAR), Hitachi Data Systems, Training Associates, ITPrenuers, and Global Knowledge. Joe is a widely published course author on outlets such as LinkedIn Learning, Pearson Safari, INE.com, and Udemy.com. He has been a subject-matter expert for the CompTIA Cloud Essentials and Cloud Plus exams and a 2018 CompTIA Partner Conference trainer for the Cloud Plus TTT. Currently Joe is the owner of a new upstart learning platform called MyBlockChainExperts and is based in Jacksonville, Florida.

Joe is also a Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP), Certified Blockchain Solutions Architect, and avid blockchain and cryptocurrency geek. He holds industry-leading certifications from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Brocade, Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, VMware, CompTIA, HP 3PAR ASE, Cloud Credential Council, Palo Alto Networks, and numerous other organizations.

While in the Navy and attending Central Texas University, Joe received an AA degree. He received a certificate in total quality management from the United States International University (USIU) in San Diego. He received several certificates in information systems, project management, intranet development, and a BSIS from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

In 2007, Joe was given the AFCEA NOVA SuperNOVA award for outstanding event leadership and was awarded the Brocade Excellence Award in 2008 for his Brocade Services Partner Training Program implementation.

Greg Phillips is an On-prem Datacenter and Cloud Native Infrastructure Architect with over 25 years of experience in distributed systems and high-volume, multi-platform environments. Environments worked in have spanned DOD, commercial satellite communications, federal government, financial, manufacturing, transportation, service provider and other commercial sector Fortune 500 firms. He became interested in and got involved with BTC and Blockchain technology in 2013 and is currently researching Blockchain/DLT use cases for cable MSOs and content providers in the media/entertainment sector. Greg is also the founder of Think IT Data Solutions, which, in addition to providing managed IT services, provides technology-led business transformation solutions enabling fully autonomous closed-loop operations for enterprise clients.

Kunal Mittal is an Entrepreneur and serves on the Board of Advisors for multiple technology startups. Advisory roles and CTO positions is what he aspires to continue to do at early stage startups.?

He is a Technologist with over 20 years of experience working at all size companies, from early stage startups to large Enterprises. His strengths are product strategy, technology strategy, and execution. He enjoys building high performing teams to create a capacity to Innovate. Having lead small teams to large teams of more than 400 people, he has spearheaded all technology functions Product Management, UX, Development, Quality Assurance, Architecture, Data Science, Cyber Security, Infrastructure, and Corporate IT.