Dave Shelton

About Dave Shelton

After playing professional soccer for four years I worked in consulting at Arthur Andersen for two years and then went into systems engineering, sales and sales management at IBM. I left the IT industry to do something more euntreprenurial becoming a partner and VP/GM of an international food trading business. The Firm traded food and lumber to the far east. I ran the operations for five years. After leaving international trading I decided I missed high tech and moved to Cisco. I recently resigned from Cisco after more than 14 years and joined VmWare. I specialized in Vmwares Software Defined Networking solution NSX and also learned and supported their SDwan solution. After 5 years at Vmware I moved to Palo Alto Networks specializing in Prisma Access. Cloud delivered Next Generation Fire Wall is the next big wave due to SD Wan changing traffic patterns. I am still at PaloAlto Networks.Specialties: Have a broad understanding of business from sales to operations to accounting. I focus on doing things the right way. My strength is integrity, hard work and creativity. My objective is providing solutions with manageable risk and good quality returns. Played soccer for three great coaches, Jerry Yeagly at IU, Rinus Michels (coach of Ajax, Barcelona and 74 Netherlands world cup team) and Claudio Continho, coached Brazil world cup team in 1978.

Experience

1. Senior Account Executive

   Palo Alto Networks

   Sep 2019 — Present · NC, US

   Specializing in Prisma Access

Education

• Indiana University Bloomington

  BS, Accounting

  1974 — 1978