Chris Banes

About Chris Banes

Chris leads a team of world class pre-sales engineers at Nutanix. He thoroughly enjoys developing relationships external to Nutanix with a growing customer and partner base, as well as those internal to the organization. His career objective is to grow in role and responsibility specific to pre-sales engineering leadership while maintaining an effective work/life balance, in so creating a balance between career, family and faith. Chris\' goal in everything is to strive to have fun doing it.\"At the end of the day, we spend entirely too much time \'working\' to not thoroughly enjoy what we do!\"Specialties Include: Technical Leadership, hardware and software technology sales, extensive data storage experience, project management and program management skills, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) design and architecture, infrastructure and data center design, pre-sales leadership, account planning, coaching and motivating for peak performance while continually improving customer satisfaction

Experience

1. Vice President Systems Engineering - Americas

   Nutanix

   Jul 2020 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US

   Vice President Systems Engineering - Americas: Based in Minneapolis, responsible for the pre-sales systems engineering organization in North, Central and South America. Focus: Continue to build and develop the Nutanix technical pre-sales team in the Americas while expanding Nutanix\'s presence in the Enterprise, Commercial, Federal, Healthcare, SLED, LATAM, and Mid-Market organizations.

Education

• Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

  MBA, Management

  2000 — 2002

• College of Lake County

  AA

  1991 — 1994

• Trinity International University

  BA, Interpersonal and Group Communication

  1998 — 2000

Skills

• Big Data
• Team Leadership
• Emc Storage
• Virtualization
• Storage Architecture
• Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
• Storage Area Networks
• Unix
• Disaster Recovery
• Hardware
• Solution Selling
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Data Center
• Solaris
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Netapp
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Converged Infrastructure
• Replication
• Netbackup
• Sap Erp
• Team Management
• Nas
• Sap Hana
• San
• Sap
• Network-Attached Storage (Nas)
• Tsm
• Storage Virtualization
• Vmware
• Systems Engineering
• Pre-Sales
• Infrastructure
• Management
• Data Warehousing
• Professional Services
• Storage
• Enterprise Storage