Over the past 20+ years at Cisco, Joe has built deep expertise across multiple areas of the technology stack. He began by focusing on storage, where he spent seven years supporting, implementing, and designing Cisco IT’s SAN and NAS environments. From there, he expanded into data center architecture, helping design and evolve Cisco’s global compute, storage, and networking infrastructure in a constantly shifting IT landscape. Now, Joe serves as a Technical Leader for Cisco IT’s Cloud Edge Defense team, where he drives the adoption of Cisco Secure Access (SSE). His work centers on solving critical business problems through trusted collaboration with internal security teams and industry experts. He is also a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE).