Mark Turnblom Completes AEM Sites DevOps Certification

There's always lots of good stuff happening at Hoodoo Digital.  We are pleased to announce that Mark Turnblom has completed the Adobe Certified Expert exam for the Adobe Experience Manager Sites Architect.  This exam certifies that he “has proven knowledge and experience to help clients optimize the value of their Adobe solution.”  Adobe provides an exam guide that outlines the things that an Architect should be proficient with in order to pass the exam. 

At a minimum, the candidate seeking to become certified as an Adobe Experience Manager DevOps Engineer has at least one year of experience using and configuring Adobe Cloud Manager, as well as at least two years of experience configuring, implementing, and managing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tasks. The candidate should be comfortable working in Adobe Managed Services and Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service, and should be able to set up Adobe Experience Manager environments and infrastructure. Familiarity with the following technologies and environments:

• Cloud Manager
• Adobe IO CLI
• Git CLI
• Cloud transition tools
• Dispatcher convertor
• Repository modernizer
• Dev staging and production
• Dev sandbox
• Local environment

Of his desire to get certified, Mark said: “I wanted to see if I had any glaring blank spots that would hinder my knowledge base. I had not studied much and wanted to get more time in with the books but I received some good advice that learning where my blind spots were would focus my studies. If I passed it I’d have that in my pocket as well as a good place to start digging into  my weaker topics. And as It turns out, even if you pass a test, there’s always more learning to do and more weaknesses you can convert to strengths.”

Mark is an AEM Systems Engineer and has been with Hoodoo Digital since May of 2021. After working with Sitecore for several years, Mark moved to AEM about 4 years ago, and has learned to both appreciate and manage its layers of complexity; he enjoys the challenges he finds as he helps customers navigate the sometimes thorny paths of AEM deployment, and loves to automate everything he can in order to provide consistent and trusted outcomes. We are very proud of his hard work in completing the certification and are so glad to have him part of the Hoodoo team. 

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We do. We’re hoodoo.