Mike has been in the high-tech industry for 40+. He is a 16-year CCIE as well as VCP\VCIX in NSX with 35+ years of experience in networking, computing, storage, and virtualization platforms. He has been at WWT for 13 years starting as a CSA for the Southeast, then moving to the Datacenter Networking GET team for the and on the ASD team as a Principal Architect focusing on AI infrastructure. Mike's responsibilities include guiding customers through the discovery, architecture, and design phases of next-generation SDN data center technologies and high performance AI infrastructure. He is also responsible for working with OEMs on new products and creating lab environments and training guides to help train customers and field engineers.