SEAQ Servicios’ Felipe Ceballos Named Red Hat’s 2016 Certified Professional of the Year
Ceballos honored for ingenuity, hard work, and expertise using Red
Hat technologies
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Felipe Ceballos, the technology leader
at SEAQ Servicios in Colombia, has been named the 2016 Red Hat Certified
Professional of the Year. The annual award honors a Red Hat Certified
Professional (RHCP) who demonstrates ingenuity, hard work, and
expertise, and will be presented to Ceballos at Red Hat Summit 2016,
currently taking place in San Francisco.
Ceballos is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) with certifications in
virtualization, clustering, OpenStack, and Red Hat Satellite, and is in
the process of becoming a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA). At SEAQ
Servicios, a leading company focused on deploying open source solutions
in Colombia and throughout Latin America, Ceballos was able to create
and deploy high-availability, scalable solutions in a number of
environments at SEAQ Servicios because of his mastery of Red Hat
products.
For the last 17 years, the Red Hat Certification program has had a
single goal of building and validating skills through a program with
rigorous, hands-on, and performance-based testing. Red Hat's
certifications help system administrators, application developers, and
IT architects advance their careers. RHCE and all the programs that
followed establish benchmarks for what an IT professional should know
when using Red Hat technology.
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Randy Russell, director, Certification, Red Hat
“Congratulations to Felipe on being named this year's Red Hat Certified
Professional of the Year. He was chosen not only because of his
technical accomplishments and in-depth knowledge of Red Hat
technologies, but also for his eagerness to share that knowledge with
others in his organization. On behalf of all Red Hatters -
congratulations, Felipe.”
Felipe Ceballos, technology lead, SEAQ Servicios
“To be named the 2016 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year is a
fantastic honor. My Red Hat certifications have helped me gain greater
credibility in the market and helped me stand out among other IT
professionals. When I learned that I had won the award, I was so excited
that I had to read my email three times before I believed it! My
company, SEAQ Servicios, and I are extremely happy and moved, and
consider it a victory for both our company and Colombia.”
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