Tad Einstein is currently a Senior Program Manager at Google Cloud, spearheading efforts to drive hands-on cloud learning at scale. Prior to joining Google Cloud Learning Services, Tad was the first Customer Engineer located in the state of Florida and helped Google build and expand its cloud book of business in the state. Prior to Google, Tad was a Global Solutions Architect for Equinix Professional Services, architecting solutions to help customers take advantage of cloud technologies. Prior to Equinix, Tad was a Consulting Technical Director for Oracle Corporation specializing in client engagements related to Enterprise deployments of Oracle Cloud and Engineered Systems. Tad started his career working for the largest Market Maker on NASDAQ (at the time) and was responsible for engineering Solaris based systems that specialized in high volume trading. After Wall Street, Tad worked with the lowest achieving school districts in the country to help architect personalized computer-based learning systems, while at Pearson, Inc. Tad has been a guest speaker at many industry events such as Oracle OpenWorld, Google Next, Western Canada Information Security Conference, and Florida Alternative Investment Association, to name a few. Tad has been an independent business technology consultant for various start-ups throughout the years and continues to invest time in fostering emerging technologies.