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Bob has more than 20 years experience in data networking, including campus LAN/WAN, wireless, SD-WAN, data center networking, software-defined networking, and network security. His career spans time in enterprise IT shops, a stint working for a voice and data equipment OEM, and for the last 15 years Bob has been in the solutions integrator/reseller market.

In his roles with integrators, Bob has provided hands-on network implementation services as well as pre-sales network design and architecture and been responsible for developing go-to-market strategies, building pre-sales solution engineering teams, and growing networking business at his employers. Currently, Bob is a player/coach SE manager at a large IT solutions integrator where he runs a hard-working team of dedicated SEs.

Bob grew up in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He began earning networking certifications while still in college and holds a Cisco CCIE certification as well as numerous other certifications from major industry vendors.

Bob still lives in the Philadelphia region with his wife of over 20 years and his two children. In his spare time he likes to hike with his dog Indiana, volunteer in his community to support his children’s activities, tinkers with home automation, and collects and restores classic arcade video games from the 1980s and 1990s.






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  12. Show 184 – The Future of Networking Part 2 as Inspired by #NFD7
  13. The Future of Networking Part 1 As Inspired By #NFD7
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  16. Application Monitoring with ThousandEyes
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  18. Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure: Nexus 9000
  19. Big Switch Networks and the (possible) Future of Networking Hardware
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  23. Show 153 – Cisco Live 2013 Roundtable Discussion with Tech Field Day

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