Jim French, CCIE No. 4074, has more than 9 years of experience at Cisco, 13 years of experience in information technologies, and more than 13 years of experience fathering his wonderful son Brian. Jim has held the position of Cisco Distinguished System Engineer since early 2003 and holds CCIE and CISSP certifications. Since joining Cisco, he has focused on routing, switching, voice, video, security, storage, content, and application networking. Most recently, Jim has been helping customers to decrease upfront capital investments in application infrastructure, reduce application operational costs, speed application time to market, increase application touch points (interactions), increase application availability, and improve application performance. Working with Cisco marketing and engineering, Jim has been instrumental in driving new features and acquisitions into Cisco products to make customers successful. Jim received a BSEE degree from Rutgers University, College of Engineering, in 1987 and later went on to attain an MBA from Rutgers Graduate School of Management in 1994. In his spare time, Jim enjoys family, friends, running, basketball, biking, traveling, and laughing.
Zach Seils, CCIE No. 7861, is a technical leader in Cisco Advanced Services Data Center Networking Practice. Zach’s focus is the design and deployment of Cisco WAAS solutions for the largest enterprise customers with Cisco. He is also frequently engaged with partners and internal Cisco engineers worldwide to advise on the design, implementation, and troubleshooting of Cisco WAAS. He also works closely with the Application Delivery Business Unit (ADBU) on product enhancements, testing, and deployment best practices.
Steve Wasko is a consulting systems engineer in Cisco Systems Advanced Technology Data Center team. He works with Fortune 500 companies in the areas of application networking services and storage area networking. He has been with Cisco for two years. Steve’s career has been focused around server-side operating systems and infrastructure networking for large corporations. Graduating in 1995 from Central Michigan University, Steve has spent time deploying client/server environments for 10 years with EDS, IBM, Microsoft, and Cisco. While at Microsoft, Steve was also a senior product manager for Microsoft’s Windows Server Division. Steve’s industry certifications include Cisco Storage Networking Solutions Design Specialist, Novell Certified NetWare Engineer (CNE), and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).