Richard Staats, MBA

Richard Staats, MBA has a wealth of experience in the technology industry. Richard began their career in 2008 as a Client Technical Assistance Support Technician at Certification Partners. In 2012, they moved to Xerox as a Remote Support Engineer. In 2013, they joined VTM Group as a Systems Administrator, where they were responsible for the planning, implementation, and administration of information technology systems. In 2015, they became an Operations Engineer (Systems Engineer II) at Peak Hosting, working on a cross-discipline team responsible for building and maintaining hosting customer infrastructure. In 2016, they joined Metal Toad as a Senior Cloud Engineer and Cloud Engineer, where they used Puppet and Chef for configuration management of servers and maintained client hosting environments. In 2018, they moved to Pixlee TurnTo as a Senior Systems/Cloud Operations Engineer. Most recently, in 2021, they joined A Cloud Guru as an AWS Training Architect.

Richard Staats, MBA has a comprehensive education history. Richard obtained their Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Information Technology Management from Western Governors University between 2008 and 2012. Richard then went on to earn their Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Business Information Technology Management from Western Governors University between 2012 and 2014. Additionally, they have obtained several certifications from various institutions, such as Microsoft, Citrix, CompTIA, SUSE, VMware, CIW, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). These include Azure Fundamentals (2021), Citrix CCA Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration (2015), CompTIA Linux + (2015), SUSE Certified Linux Administrator (2015), MCSA: Windows Server 2012 (2014), MS: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center Specialist (2014), VMware VCA-DCV (2014), CIW v5 Associate (2009), AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS) (2019), AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate Level (2016), AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (2018), and LPIC-1 (2015).