James Alex De Long
About James Alex De Long
Technical Certifications - CCNP - ITIL Foundations v3 Certified - VCP5-DCV - EMCIE-VNX (Specialist Level) Summary of Skills • Experience in a high level technical selling role to clients in multiple industries, including energy, financial services, media, entertainment, healthcare, and retail. • Expert level design and implementation knowledge of Cisco’s UCS Cisco’s network fabric switching technologies; including UCS Fabric Interconnect, Nexus, MDS, and Catalyst switching platforms • Experience architecting and deploying a broad array of Cisco technologies; including significant experience with Cisco’s routing, security, mobility, and WAN optimization products • Significant hands-on experience with data center server technologies (Cisco UCS, HP Proliant, IBM SystemX) • Significant knowledge of L2/L3 network protocols (Fabric Path, vPC, VXLAN, Ethernet, RSTP/ MSTP, TCP/IP, IPv4/v6 routing, FHRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, Multicast, MPLS, QoS) • Significant knowledge of networked-storage protocols (FCoE, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS) • Significant hands-on experience with industry leading server virtualization products such as VMware vSphere Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenApp/Desktop • Experience architecting and implementing network security, monitoring, and event management technologies • Knowledge of best practices for software defined networking technologies and virtual switching platforms • Experience architecting and implementing software based virtual infrastructure extensions and management technologies; including technologies such as virtualized flash storage • Subject matter expertise on data center facility planning and environmental requirements (i.e. power, cooling, cable management, facility compliance) • Experienced in education development and knowledge transfer sessions to customers and partners in order to facilitate end-user experience and value proposition