Christopher Martin Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Global Presence

As a Technology Solutions Architect, I work with field and product teams to drive opportunity with enterprise customers worldwide aligning their business strategies to technology investments in AI, application modernization, and hyper-converged infrastructure, leveraging Cisco's compute and networking portfolio. 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭:• Communicate complex technical concepts and solutions to both technical and non technical audiences thats easy to… Show more As a Technology Solutions Architect, I work with field and product teams to drive opportunity with enterprise customers worldwide aligning their business strategies to technology investments in AI, application modernization, and hyper-converged infrastructure, leveraging Cisco's compute and networking portfolio. 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭:• Communicate complex technical concepts and solutions to both technical and non technical audiences thats easy to understand. • Provide training and enablement on AI, Application modernization to internal teams, customers, and partners.• Deliver sessions and “Meet The Expert” meetings at Cisco Live, focusing on AI transformation for business and strategic technology adoption.• Work with internal GTM teams to develop new enablement strategies focused on generating sales opportunities in AI, app modernization. Show less

United States

As a member of the executive leadership team, I worked closely with regional directors and systems engineering managers to build strategic partnerships with enterprise accounts driving business impact through the design and recommendation of technology solutions in AI, multi-cloud, edge, security, and virtualization solving customer challenges, objectives.Met with large enterprise clients across multiple industries, including finance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and utilities… Show more As a member of the executive leadership team, I worked closely with regional directors and systems engineering managers to build strategic partnerships with enterprise accounts driving business impact through the design and recommendation of technology solutions in AI, multi-cloud, edge, security, and virtualization solving customer challenges, objectives.Met with large enterprise clients across multiple industries, including finance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and utilities, focusing on understanding their business objectives and challenges using a consultative approach.Developed demos and proof-of-concepts (PoCs) using Kaggle datasets and customer sample data to showcase AI use cases, including classification, LLMs, and RAG models. Demonstrated performance and scalability on VMware cloud and data center products.Led workshops focused on application modernization, multi cloud, and security, documenting clients' existing environment to recommending and assist implementing tailored solutions to address both business and technical challenges. Show less

United States

Assisted global enterprise customers in designing and optimizing scalable, secure architectures across multicloud, hybrid, disaster recovery (DR), and data center (DC) consolidation environments leveraging VMware's Cloud portfolio integrated with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).I helped development and operations teams implement DevOps practices, automate workflows, and drive continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. using VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)… Show more Assisted global enterprise customers in designing and optimizing scalable, secure architectures across multicloud, hybrid, disaster recovery (DR), and data center (DC) consolidation environments leveraging VMware's Cloud portfolio integrated with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).I helped development and operations teams implement DevOps practices, automate workflows, and drive continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. using VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and CloudHealth for cost optimization, visibility, chargeback, and showback—ensuring that organizations saw value from their cloud investments.𝐌𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬:• Designing and managing complex cloud architectures (VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP)• Implementing security into multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies• Optimizing infrastructure costs through automated workflows and cost management tools• Supporting DevOps transformation and CI/CD automation• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and operational efficiency Show less

Portland, Oregon Area

As a Technical Solutions Specialist (TSS) within the Data Center Group, supporting customer-facing teams across the US, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil. I worked closely with clients to drive portfolio positioning, adoption, and help address both business objectives and technical challenges in areas of app modernization, private cloud, and public cloud adoption for IaaS, PaaS and CaaS.Presented at VMworld 2017 and 2018 on application modernization using Intel’s memory technologies within… Show more As a Technical Solutions Specialist (TSS) within the Data Center Group, supporting customer-facing teams across the US, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil. I worked closely with clients to drive portfolio positioning, adoption, and help address both business objectives and technical challenges in areas of app modernization, private cloud, and public cloud adoption for IaaS, PaaS and CaaS.Presented at VMworld 2017 and 2018 on application modernization using Intel’s memory technologies within container, virtualized and bare metal environments using full stack application development, microservices.Worked closely with AWS and Google account teams to accelerate cloud adoption and optimize multi-cloud strategies for large enterprise accounts using hyperscaler native services integrated with intel-based instances. Show less

Portland, Oregon Area

Provided strategic guidance and support to enterprise customers, partners implementing hybrid cloud services with OpenStack, AWS, Microsoft Azure connected to Cisco ACI, ASA, UCS, Nexus products. Collaborated with sales teams to drive revenue, expand service offerings, accelerate growth within the Data Center, security portfolios across U.S. and European markets.

Portland, Oregon Area

Data Center CSE providing strategic guidance and support to account teams in developing tailored solutions to address specific partner, customer needs related to Data Center architectures, virtualization, and networking, leveraging Cisco's portfolio of products, services.Assisted partners on Statement of Work (SOW) documents, Bill of Materials (BOM) for UCS, Nexus, and ACI proposals. Provided best practice designs for both greenfield and brownfield deployments, including seamless… Show more Data Center CSE providing strategic guidance and support to account teams in developing tailored solutions to address specific partner, customer needs related to Data Center architectures, virtualization, and networking, leveraging Cisco's portfolio of products, services.Assisted partners on Statement of Work (SOW) documents, Bill of Materials (BOM) for UCS, Nexus, and ACI proposals. Provided best practice designs for both greenfield and brownfield deployments, including seamless integration with third-party and competitive OEM products. Show less