Episode description

About Maureen Lonergan

Maureen Lonergan joined Amazon Web Services in March of 2012 as Director of Training and Certification. Since then, Maureen has worked to build a set of programs and offerings that offer a flexible path for learners to advance their careers and for organizations to enable their teams and get more out of the cloud. Her team is responsible for building, maintaining, and delivering both classroom and digital training courses alongside an AWS Certification program to validate cloud knowledge. Education programs, including AWS Academy, aim to build a pipeline of cloud talent for the future. Over the course of the last 7 years, the organization has delivered training in over 50 Countries and hundreds of thousands of learners. Prior to Amazon, Maureen was the Senior Director for Partner Enablement at VMware where she built training and enablement programs and delivered training to hundreds of thousands of individuals across a channel of 30,000 partners. She’s also served as the Director of Technical Training and Enablement at Symantec and the Director of Education Services at Ariba.

Some of the highlights of the show include: 

• Where to get started learning about the cloud
• The variety of AWS certifications offered
• Why certifications are valuable for job prospects
• The work that goes into designing the AWS training courses
• Some partners where you can access training

Links:

• https://www.aws.training
• https://aws.amazon.com
• https://aws.amazon.com/training/course-descriptions/
• https://aws.amazon.com/training/learning-paths/
• https://www.coursera.org/aws
• https://aws.amazon.com/training/path-cloudpractitioner/
• https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/certifications/expert/ccie-routing-switching.html
• https://www.edx.org/school/aws
• https://www.coursera.org/aws