James Sandgathe

About James Sandgathe

Technology leader with over 20 years of experience in the areas of new product offering development, product marketing, strategic planning, professional services, and systems integration. Innovative and critical thinker with excellent diagnostic reasoning skills and outstanding customer project delivery track record. Key to success has been my willingness to step outside of conventional thinking in creating new ways solve business and operational challenges, work with other stakeholders to deliver a compelling product offering and services value proposition. Significant experience with multiple technology shifts including enterprise/service provider IP voice and multimedia, content delivery, collaboration, application visibility and performance optimization, software defined networking, network function virtualization, automation and cloud computing.

Experience

1. Technical Marketing Engineer

   Cisco

   Mar 2012 — Present

   Enterprise Infrastructure and Solutions Group (EISG)Responsibilities include solution architecture and product requirements for Enterprise NFV, architecture team lead for Service Function Chaining and Virtual Network Service Functions, along with defining prescriptive deployment for orchestration and automation.• Lead working group consisting of Cisco Principle and Distinguished engineers creating a architecture for NSH based Service Chaining (SC) in a multi-vendor Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) model• Created deployment architecture of virtualized network services for next generation WAN application and network services edge • Developed flow handling architecture for implementation by orchestration and automation system using Cisco APIC-EM and Enterprise Service Automation (ESA)• Innovated a new concept for a virtual network service function and virtualization support for transparent interception with fail-to-wire capability leveraging next generation NFV platform to apply L4 to L7 network and application services • Developed programs using Python for testing and training that implement life-cycle management with REST API for NFV platforms • Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker - July 2016

Education

• University of Illinois Chicago

  Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

  1990 — 1994

Skills

• Rtsp
• Voip
• Data Center
• Bgp
• Virtualization
• Routing
• Cisco Nexus 9k
• Unified Communications
• Tcp/Ip
• Collateral Materials Development
• Cisco Call Manager
• Digital Media
• Live Video Streaming
• Network Architecture
• Waas
• Ipsec
• Wan Optimisation
• Ospf
• Mpls
• Ip
• Ipv6
• Wan
• Telepresence
• Service Providers
• Wccp
• Mpls Vpn
• Product Management
• H.323
• Cisco Ucs
• Network Design
• Live Streaming
• Digital Video
• Lan Switching
• Sip
• Content Delivery
• Iptv
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing
• Load Balancing
• Ip Multicast