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Hello everyone, My name is Dave Stevens and I'm a Field Solutions Architect specializing in virtualization integrations, such as hypervisors, as they pertain to Pure Storage. Let's talk about the VMware/Broadcom debacle some time soon. I'm originally from Pittsburgh, PA. I can speak fluent Pittsburghese. My wife and I moved to southern New Hampshire many years ago. Before Pure I held several roles across multiple organizations including, system architecture and design, storage infrastructure, backup infrastructure and security technologies. While I miss my days as a customer, I'm excited to be at Pure talking about our technologies to help make your lives simpler. To read a bit more about me head over to my personal blog and peruse some of the topics I have blogged about over the years. Hint, hint, it's typically about virtualization. There are many of us at Pure that live in the New England region. So, if you are also in New England, please reach out. I would love to meetup and chat about all things Pure and virtualization. Also keep an eye on the Northeast Region Pure User Group (PUG) section of the site here for upcoming PUGs. I hope to see you and I promise to bring along some local Pure folks for you to meet. In the region we cover a bunch of topics ranging from cyber resilience, AI, unstructured data, databases (SAP, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), cloud, automation and much more. I hope to see you soon.Mudra Hello!!!
Hello from Ohio!!! Joe Mudra here, Pure Systems Engineer supporting State Local & Education Customers in Ohio & Kentucky. Some many know me from the shoes, the beard, or maybe the Christmas Cards. I've been at Pure Storage for 2 years, prior to that I was at Arctic Wolf Networks for 1.5 years, and Veeam Software for almost 7 years!!! But more importantly, I spent most of my time in IT in YOUR shoes, our Users!!! From my humble beginnings at Ohio University in a small IT shop there while going to school, to Enterprise sized Businesses in the Central Ohio region. I'm super excited for this new Pure Storage Community hub and really hope our customers leverage the wealth of knowledge that exists in our customer base. Look forward to seeing what our community makes of this new space!!!Hey, hey! I'm Jason Walker, Director Technical Strategy at Pure!
I've been with Pure Storage since 2019, bringing Pure Storage’s Cyber Resilience message to the market. I've met with thousands of customers on the best approach for their desired outcomes and appeared on many, many webinars and events. We've come a long way in such a short period of time, and I am excited for the future! Personal note, I am a graduate of the University of Florida, have covered sports as a sportswriter and on-air personality, and currently reside in Daytona Beach Shores, FL. Go Gators!Howdy from East Texas !
I'm an Enterprise SE supporting Healthcare Customers. I'd love for my customers to come out of the woodwork here and give a howdy. I support the creation of REAL BBQ ... that is TEXAS BBQ, there is no other BBQ :-) In my downtime I enjoy woodworking and supporting our local community through volunteer work at a local food pantry. I'm also a Board member of our Meal-A-Day program with a mission of providing hot, nutritious meals to homebound or elderly residents in the community, ensuring they receive both nourishment and regular human contact. I also support this mission by assisting my spouse in her community garden that she created when we moved back to her small town community. Which means I now have a TRACTOR and I see work through "tractor eyes" :-)Greetings From a FLORIDA MAN!
Hello fellow storage nerds! I wanted to stop by and say hi to everybody who is in the mix on Pure's new Community site. I am pretty stoked at its potential for me to occasionally contribute some stuff, but more importantly, round out my knowledge of how things are going for our customers and where there are opportunities to improve our storage arrays. For those of you outside the US who don't know the "Florida Man" reference, here's a great spot to give you an idea of what that means 😂 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man. Basically, "Florida Man" is the US-version of "Australian Man" ... no offense to Australia 🇦🇺😀. For those who are curious - I am a former SE (going all the way back to working a Sun Microsystems) who made the jump to marketing when I came to Pure and am working now as a Technical Evangelist...which is being being a hype man for our platform and using my SE brain to provide technical guidance to the different campaigns we run. Honestly, it has put a second wind in my career that was burning out from being in sales for so long. And, Pure's stuff makes it VERY easy to get excited and hype it up 💪.Hello from Utah
Hello! My name is Michael Floyd and I work in the NPI department at Pure Storage focusing on new Cloud Solutions and Products. My role allows me to work with out engineering teams and support teams to be ready for new projects that Pure Storage releases. I have been at Pure Storage for 6 year! My hobbies include BBQ and Blackstone Griddling, playing and coaching disc golf, and spending time with my busy family!
Hello from Florida!
Hello! My name is David Stamen and I am the Director of Technical Strategy for Cloud and Virtualization. My role allows me to work with our customers, partners and our field to make our solutions successful! I have been happily at Pure Storage for over 5 years now. When not working (or on slack) you can find me 3D Printing, Building Legos, Cycling or Running (New "Hobby"!)Greetings from Chicago!
My name is Eric Shanks and I'm a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer for Portworx by Pure Storage. At Portworx I try to educate people about how cloud native storage solutions like Portworx Enterprise can manage persistent data for containers or KubeVirt based virtual machines to modernize your application stack.
Hello from VA
Greetings from the pollen-inundated Commonwealth of Virginia! My name is Greg and I'm a Principal Technologist over US Federal for a little over a year now. I've spent time at EMC(and all it's permutations to present day) and in the partner space covering just about every vertical out there. In my free time, I love traveling with my wife(the Disney Princess below), catching the occasional game and most recently steering into trade crafts. A good friend of mine has reminded me that as much as we work with technology, jumping from video conferences and traveling to events....it's a refresher for the brain to disconnect and work with your hands. And yes, like my shirt in the picture says....it's not the years it's the mileage ;)
