Perry has worked in the Networking and Unified Communications Industries for the past 30 years as trusted advisor. His breadth of networking experience spans real-time, fault-resilient LAN/MAN/WAN, Campus, and Virtualized Securely Segmented Networking, including Fortune 1000 companies, Transportation, K-12 Education, Higher Education, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Finance and State/Local Government. He has spent the past 10 years designing business-critical fabric networks for customers, enabling them to extend their existing server and storage over a virtualize enterprise networks. Perry’s focus has been on removing 20+ years of industry-driven complexity while enhancing secure segmentation, supportability, and the inclusion of hybrid Cloud-based computing over a virtualized network.
Perry came to work at C1 in 2016, as Senior Solutions Architect supporting the emerging Network Fabric and Automation. He designs networks based on advanced fabric technologies like Shortest Path Bridging (SPBm) coupled with existing trunking and clustering technologies to reliably service some of the most mission critical, fault-tolerant applications for customers today. His current efforts include showing customers and consulting professionals how easy it is to build the next generation networks using the Extreme Fabric Connect/Fabric Extend/Fabric Attach technologies; these are networks with more features, functionality, resiliency and manageability with less complexity. Perry is a passionate speaker excited to share how these revolutionary technologies can benefit any customer’s enterprise network.
Perry is a USAF Veteran having served five years as an officer managing the engineering procurement of advanced mission critical digital flight control systems within the V-22, F-111 and F-22 Aircraft.
