Jim Booth

Sr. Cloud Engineer

SADA, an Insight company•  March 2022 - July 2024•  Remote

Scoped and proposed GCP implementations, cloud migrations, and application modernization initiatives. Designed scalable and fault-tolerant solutions leveraging containers, Kubernetes, and other GCP services. Conducted detailed assessments of customer environments and provided prescriptive cloud adoption roadmaps. Delivered technical presentations, demos, proofs of concept, and hands-on workshops to demonstrate GCP capabilities. Mentored other engineers on sales strategy, customer relations, and champion development.

Technical Solution Architect - Cloud Infrastructure and Software Group

Cisco Systems•  October 2013 - March 2022•  Denver, CO

Technical closer for the US West region, specializing in Hyper-converged Hybrid Storage infrastructure. Customer consultation, performance analysis, data protection strategy, automation, scripting, POCs, demos, design work, public and customer presentations. Taught team Kubernetes and other Cloud Native technologies.

System Engineer

WHIPTAIL (Acquired by Cisco)•  July 2013 - October 2013•  Western US

Provided pre-sales technical support for all-flash enterprise storage arrays.

Systems Engineer

NetApp•  May 2011 - July 2013•  Greater Denver Area

Provided technical sales support for sales executives with a goal of over $10M. Achieved 127% sales attainment in 2013.

Regional Storage Architect

XIV (Acquired by IBM)•  March 2009 - May 2011•  Western US

Provided pre-sales technical support for the XIV Storage platform.

Advisory Technical Consultant

EMC•  July 2007 - March 2009•  Western US

Responsible for EMC’s storage management, reporting, and performance software.

Technical Product Manager

Veritas (Acquired by Symantec)•  April 2005 - March 2007•  Western US

Built a reference base for Command Central Storage management product.

Managing Director Systems Engineering; Product Manager

CreekPath Systems•  January 2002 - January 2005•  Global

Built a team of senior systems engineers for pre- and post-sales support.

Solutions Architect

Giantloop•  January 2001 - January 2002•  Western US

Designed and built optical storage networks.

Engagement Manager

Storability•  January 2000 - January 2001•  Western US

Managed storage services execution in the Western US.

SE Manager, West

Network Engines•  January 2000 - January 2001•  Western US

Hired and trained Systems Engineers for the western region.

Consulting Systems Engineer

EMC•  January 1995 - January 2000•  Bay Area

Provided pre- and post-sales support for strategic accounts.

Stanford University

Machine Learning Specialization•  April 2018 - June 2018

ML Certification