Chris Crow Email & Phone Number

Tacoma, Wa, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Responsible for maintaining learning environments for Portworx and related technologies using the Instruqt platform and scripting. This includes automation of GKE, Openshift, Rancher, EKS, and many other Kubernetes technologies.I have also spoken at Kubecon and Data on Kubernetes colocated event.I have authored numerous technical blog posts and demo videos.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Responsible for architecting Cloud Native and Kubernetes solutions for data management and backup.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Responsible for architecting storage solutions for on-premises and cloud-native workloads including block, file, and Kubernetes native solutions• Specialized in modern applications and automation as a specialist for the rest of the sales organization• Specialized in Kubernetes native, software-defined storage products• Chris maintained a Kubernetes and Portworx lab for Pure Storage SEs• Developed curriculum and performed educational services for Pure SEs, partners, and customers around Kubernetes and cloud-native applications• Organized a partner Kubernetes user group to educate my local community, as well as a national Kubernetes and Portworx user group for Pure employees• Joined the Pure performance club in my first full year of sales

San Jose, California, Us

• Designed backup and recovery solutions for cloud-native applications as well as on-premises applications• Performed recovery education and demos around on-prem and cloud workload instantiation• Joined the Cohesity performance club in my first full year of sales• Helped guide customers on cloud-native storage requirements for their backup and recovery environments• Demonstrated and tested ransomware discovery and remediation solutions• Managed customer satisfaction and support

• Architected hybrid cloud infrastructure and cloud mobility solutions for customers• Architected and implemented VMware infrastructure and associated products including NSX, vRealize automation, and custom scripting• Consulted on public cloud strategies including hybrid cloud, DR to the cloud, and cloud network design• Lead automation workshops to educate customers on scripting requirements • Implemented custom scripting for VMware vRealize Automation including programming against RestAPIs• Designed software-defined networking including Layer-3 design using VXLAN and micro-segmentation• Designed and taught training classes on VMware, HyperV, NetApp, and Cisco UCS• Designed and implemented network-attached and storage-area networks. Including extensive experience with NetApp, Tegile, Pure, and Nutanix• Delivered backup/recovery, business continuance & disaster recovery (DR) architectures using Zerto, Rubrik, Veeam, and others • Produced training videos and how-to documents for internal and public consumption• Performed best practice assessments• Attended vendor training and maintain relevant credentials and certifications.• Designed and implemented Cisco data center switching

Puyallup, Wa, Us

• Automated ESX backups and recovery using the VI SDK and Netapp snapshots • Designed disaster recovery plan, taking advantage of server and storage virtualization • Responsible for all Windows and Linux servers including: Exchange, Web/FTP, DNS, and Domain Controllers • Implemented LAN / WAN configurations on Cisco hardware including trunking to ESX • Created automated software deployment system for Windows XP workstations using Admin Studio and wpkg for deployment. Maintained standard images across workstation hardware • Implemented Storage Area Network solutions using EqualLogic, NetApp, and commodity hardware running Linux • Implemented network and host based intrusion detection on Linux hosts • Designed and implemented IPSEC site-to-site VPN based on Cisco hardware • Implemented scripted provisioning for multi-organization hosted Microsoft Exchange environment • Responsible for enterprise backup operations and administration