Co-lead the Strategic Research Team initiatives across Veeam that focusses on unbiased industry research on customer and partner data protection initatives. In 2021, the SRT commissioned, analyzed, published reports, and enabled sellers/marketeers/partners/developers and leadership on nearly 10,000 independent IT leaders' survey responses.

As part of the Product Strategy team at Veeam, I work on special projects while evangelizing thought-leadership at key industry events, establishing and maintaining executive relationships with Veeam's largest and most strategic enterprise accounts, and communicating our long-term vision and strategy for the industry.Within the Product Strategy team, I focus on better-together scenarios with Veeam's most strategic alliance partners -- from potential technology synergies to GTM strategy on our joint solutions.

Various Commissioner & Chaplain roles———————————SCOUTING BLOG & BIOhttp://bit.ly/jbuffScouting

Technical evangelist in IT infrastructure, blogging and tweeting about what is interesting to meFor more information, see http://www.CentralizedBackup.com(this blog includes cross-posts from where I was published on other tech pubs and sites)

Ransomware, Cyber-Resiliency, and IT Disaster Recovery

My passion is translating technology features & portfolio scenarios into differentiable stories that are compelling and credible, as a trusted advisor to senior executives, product marketers, and product managers. Led the Data Protection coverage at ESG, combining my 28 years of data protection industry experience with ESG's quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews from IT decision makers, vendor discussions of roadmaps and go-to-market strategies. ESG's data protection coverage includes: - Information Governance & Regulatory Compliance - Archives and Unstructured Data Management - Backup & Recovery - Snapshots - Replication - High Availability, Clustering and Failover mechanisms - Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)

Responsible for outbound message, evangelism and field/partner readiness for both new-market and key strategic products, including: - System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) - backup & disaster recovery - System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) - monitoring large enterprise - System Center Essentials (SCE) - systems & virtualization mgmt for SMB - AVIcode - application monitoring for .Net - Windows Server 2003R2, 2008 & 2008R2 - File Services/Storage - Windows Storage Server (OEM)

Helped company grow from $1M to $60M through a variety of roles over nine years: - Director, Business Continuity and Product Marketing - Technical Evangelist - Training Manager & Director of Education - Systems Engineering Manager - Regional Pre-Sales Engineer

Server and Network consulting - Specialized in 'enterprise solutions' for SMB customers, along with subcontracting larger integrators with deep expertise in storage and data protection technologies.

PreSales SE for Texas-region (TX-OK-LA-AR-KS-MO) at Cheyenne Software, before CA acquisition. Sold primarily ARCserve tape backup software for NetWare and Windows servers.

Led new deployments of Novell NetWare servers and Windows 3.x desktops, as well as "advanced" connectivity scenarios such as SNA or IP.

Currently seeking a role where I can grow your company by:(A) - Author the company and product stories that will resonate with customers and partners(B) - Build better products by helping developers understand their customers' needs(C) - Create communities of influencers and experts to drive awareness and adoption(D) - Delight customers with solutions and collaboration that helps them solve their problems(E) - Enable field teams and partners through sales tools and compelling content.