[AcerbicZero]

Thats cool, but I've never heard of him and this story is a bit "predictable"? Maybe uninteresting, but with less negative connotations? I'm not sure what word would work best.

It sounds like he got to where he was the same way most of us probably got to where we are....by working at it and getting better over time. A good public speaker with a passable technical background being successful at a job where they need to speak publicly about technical topics just isn't very surprising to me - regardless of skin tone.