Jason Karnes

About Jason Karnes

Passionate technologist with interests spanning all domains of human knowledge.At Wind River, I lead an Enterprise Professional Services team focused on delivery of mission critical IaaS Cloud and Linux based solutions. Previously, at VMware, I was a Sr. Staff Product Manager (Sr. Director) working on Tanzu Service Mesh and advanced Container networking. Prior to that, I was a Principal Architect and led Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud IaaS and PaaS design and implementation projects, lead creation & delivery of internal and partner facing global field training programs, and served as a forward-deployed architect for the SpringSource and Nicira acquisitions. I also designed and deployed first customer projects (early GTM) for these products: vCloud Director, vFabric Application Director, Cloud Foundry, HCX, and VMware Blockchain.Before joining VMware, I was a consultant with clients in Health Care, Financial Services, and Engineering sectors. I developed and submitted a patent for the Cloud Path WAN Accelerator with built-in hardware encryption Prior to this, I spent 4 years as a Principal Consultant at CompuCom, a large VAR leading large scale UNIX, Storage, Networking, and Disaster Recovery engagements for fortune customers.I am certified as a VMware Certified Design Expert VCDX #239

Experience

1. Director, Enterprise Professional Services

   Wind River

   Jun 2025 — Present · Limestone, TN, US

   Lead a global team of Project Managers, Architects, and Consultants focused on delivery of world-class mission critical deployments of Wind River enterprise software focused on Wind River Cloud Platform and eLxr (Linux).

Education

• Radford University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

  1995 — 1998

Skills

• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Data Center
• Leadership
• Disaster Recovery
• Saas
• Vendor Management
• Professional Services
• Strategy
• Vmware
• Unix
• Hardware
• Infrastructure
• Computer Security
• Integration
• IT Strategy
• Architecture
• Storage
• Consulting
• Sdlc
• Tcp/Ip
• Virtualization
• Solution Architecture
• Networking
• Cloud Computing
• Vsphere
• Architectures
• Vmware Vsphere