I'm an Engineer in Technical Marketing for the Enterprise NFV Solution here at Cisco. I'm based in the midwest outside of Chicago. I've been driving the adoption of new products and feature sets for most of his time at Cisco. Currently, he is applying the accumulated experience to Cisco’s new Enterprise NFV solution working on the architecture for Service Chaining, Orchestration and Automation, along with virtualized network functions. Prior to Cisco, I was an experienced Manager at Accenture working for 6 years in Network Architecture and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Before Accenture, I completed a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from the University of Illinois Chicago in 1994. Other professional interests are in data analysis, network and services programmability and mobile applications for IoT. He has received certificates in programming with Java and mobile applications using Objective-C and Swift for Apple iOS and working with services automation APIs using Python. Expertise: James Sandgathe is an Engineer in Technical Marketing for the Enterprise Infrastructure and Solutions Group in Cisco. James has been with Cisco for 16 years covering product development and systems deployment and has been subject matter expert or focus area for following: - Application Service and Network Function Virtualization with Network Programmability - Application Service Insertion and Service Chaining - Network based Transparent Interception technologies - Application Acceleration, Cloud Services Optimization and WAN Optimization - Service Provider and Enterprise Content Delivery Networking (CDN) caching and video streaming - Video Applications and Collaboration - Service Provider and Enterprise VoIP Call Control and Media Gateways