Training consultant & automation SME (established 2014)
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About me
01 — Owner @ IRIS7
Since 2014, I’ve been the owner and operator of IRIS7. Our shop provides consulting, training, and pathway planning services for fortune 500 enterprises. Be it hopping on a plane to Bangalore India or driving to Bloomington Indiana, I’m proud to have over over a decade of experience running a company that provides quality services to high profile customers.
02 — Author
Across a decade, I’ve authored more than 15 books, including: Terraform IaC, Go (GoLang) Essentials, Working with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Deploying Tower / AWX, Ansible Essentials, Dell EMC and Ansible, Ansible and Dell PowerEdge, Ansible and Dell PowerMax, Ansible and Dell PowerStore, Ansible and Dell PowerFlex, Automating Cisco with Ansible, Python Basics, API and API Design with Python, Network Automation with Python, GitLab CI Pipelines, Git and GitHub Essentials, OpenStack Automation, WebRTC Essentials, Interconnecting Avaya Aura 5.2 & 6.x Systems with SIP Trunking, and SIP Trunking with Cisco UCM.
03 — Course Dev for Alta3 Research
Since 1994, Alta3 Research has been a leader in the telecom training space leading many of the most successful VoIP, SIP, IMS, and Wireshark packet analysis training programs that supported many of the 4G and 5G cores switched on in North America. Today their training and consulting service portfolio continues to grow with programs covering coding, networking, automation, and cloud operations.
04 — Global Lead Instructor for Dell Technologies
I serve as Dell Technology’s Global Lead Instructor for on-site and live presentations. Popular live webinar events include:
Deploying Generative AI
Automating Dell PowerMax with Ansible
Automating Dell PowerScale with Ansible
Understanding DevSecOps
05 — Consultant
Be it a day, week, month, or more- reach out and let me help your enterprise with internal training programs, help with proof of concept and other planning surrounding automating with Ansible, Terraform, and other popular tools including Generative AI. Let’s start a conversation.
"Best class I've ever taken in 30+ years of technical training" -Ansible Student, NBC Comcast (2020/03)
"When you handed out color glossy bound books that you wrote, I knew it wasn't going to be 'just' another training class. Thank you, I learned so much!" -JP Morgan, (2021/08)
"I'll be passing along to management how wonderful the training event was. We should all be learning from Zach." -Telecom Engineer, Verizon Wireless (2022/06)
"He (Zach) got applause on the 5th and final day of training. I've never been in a class where the instructor was just that good." -Python Student, TransUnion (2023/09)
"Mr. Feeser, you are a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) guru. We had another vendor suggesting a rather expensive solution compared to the FREE fix you came up with. You were a joy to work with! We'll be reaching out again in the future!" -Telecom Engineer, Cox (2022/11)
"THANK YOU for traveling to our Bangalore (India) campus to deliver automation training! Our employees loved your visit, and we cannot wait to have you back" - Training Coordinator, Cisco Systems (2019/10)
"Thanks for showing up to train, AGAIN!" Training Advisor, NASDAQ (2018/09)
"Thank you so much for helping stand up BTC!" -Manager, Bahamas Telecom Company (2018/10)
"My team says I should make you a job offer. So, let me know." -Director (Cupertino), Apple (2019/06)
"Zach, you make this stuff (telecom) so simple." -US Cellular (2019/07)