Howard, Sean: - Sean Howard is a principal solutions architect (SA) at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He's held several roles at AWS, including partner SA, SA manager, and now, principal SA, supporting aerospace and satellite customers in EMEA. Before AWS, he spent seven years at VMware as a network virtualization specialist. Before that, he spent a number of years in operations at the worlds second largest DNS registrar. His introduction to IT came during his time in the US Marines, where he worked on shipboard and field-deployed networks.He holds a bachelor of science in computer information systems from Excelsior College, as well as a number of technology certifications, such as the VMware VCDX (#130).