Colby Reed

About Colby Reed

Enterprise Systems Engineer with a passion for the cloud, networking, next-generation network architecture and security. Specialization currently resides within network design, including but not limited to, data center, SD-WAN, SASE, campus and wireless, next-generation hyper-converged infrastructure, as well as securing resources in the cloud or on-premise, for physical and virtual environments.Current goal is helping customers adopt IT architectures that support secure public, private, hybrid and multi-cloud deployments which align with and enable business initiatives with positive business outcomes.Specialties: SD-WAN and SASE ArchitecturePrivate, Hybrid, and Multi-cloud ArchitectureApplication Automation & OrchestrationEnterprise Network ArchitectureHyper-converged InfrastructureNext-generation FirewallsSoftware-defined StorageVMware - ESXiNutanix AHV/KVMArista Switches, Routers, Firewalls & WIFICisco Switches, Routers, Firewalls & WIFIRouting and SwitchingStrong Presentation Skills

Experience

1. Systems Engineer

   Fortinet

   May 2024 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Houston, Texas, United States

Skills

• Tcp/Ip
• Fwsm
• Switches
• Nexus
• Ace
• Hp Procurve
• Cisco Security
• Ip
• Juniper
• Catalyst
• Bgp
• Wcs
• Security
• Cisco Devices
• Enterprise Architecture
• Asa
• Ironport
• Cisco Nexus
• Cisco Catalyst Switches
• Dns
• Eigrp
• Cisco Technologies
• Ethernet
• Architecture
• Ospf
• Ciscoworks
• Firewalls
• Vpn
• Juniper Technologies
• Routers
• Waas
• Ips
• Cisco
• Servers
• Pix
• Mpls
• Vmware
• Cisco Switches
• Ccnp
• Frame Relay