nuPSYS Inc.
CHIEF
TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
2014 - 2026
Palo Alto, CA
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of nuPSYS, responsible for technology leadership, engineering guidance, product positioning, and technical sales strategy.
My primary role is to provide technology guidance for networking solutions and to develop and support the technical sales opportunity pipeline. I work closely with customers, senior management, sales teams, and engineering teams to ensure that nuVIZ is properly positioned, presented, and aligned with each customer’s operational and business requirements.
As CTO and an engineering leader, I am responsible for translating nuVIZ capabilities into clear customer value, practical use cases, successful adoption strategies, and technically credible sales engagements. I support opportunities from initial technical discovery and architecture discussions through demonstrations, solution positioning, customer validation, and adoption planning.
• Provide executive-level technology guidance for enterprise networking, data center infrastructure, DCIM, visualization, digital twin, monitoring, and infrastructure operations.
• Drive technical sales opportunities and support development of the customer opportunity pipeline.
• Position nuVIZ capabilities around each customer’s technical requirements, operational challenges, and business objectives.
• Work directly with engineering teams and senior managers to align product capabilities, roadmap priorities, customer requirements, and field feedback.
• Lead technical presentations, demonstrations, architecture discussions, and solution validation for enterprise and service provider customers.
• Support customer adoption by defining practical workflows, implementation approaches, and high-value use cases.
• Translate complex networking and infrastructure requirements into clear product, engineering, and sales strategies.
• Develop and maintain executive and technical relationships with customers, technology partners, and strategic accounts.
nuPSYS Inc.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
OFFICER / CTO
2011 - 2014
nuPSYS is a network infrastructure software vendor, selling visual network virtualization and SDN visualization solutions to companies building and managing data centers and wide area networks. The company is led by its management team and Board of Directors, which include individuals with broad experience in enterprise/data center infrastructure, security, cloud, and software.
Dmitry
is a highly innovative and visionary IT executive with a proven track record and extensive experience as a Technologist, Enterprise Manager and Consultant in the areas of Technology, Network Automation, Service
Providers, Data Center, Line of Business Management, Research and Development, Telecommunication and IT hosting.
His accomplishments include transforming organization by enabling emerging technologies
to support business/mission for new opportunities and its cost model, creating IT governance/organizations in the departmental and bureaus levels, developing IT transformation and its roadmap based on business/mission
strategy, optimizing operation infrastructure to reduce costs and increase Service Levels and serving as a board member of IT open group certification. During his tenure at Cisco, he obtained his certification
as an x5 CCIE and IT Sr. Architect in 2001 and as a Cisco Snr network architect in 1999-2010.
He provides direction and oversight of strategic planning, policy development, Enterprise Architecture, and
information technology vision for IT Enterprise initiatives for midsize and large Organizations. Dmitry provides leadership and both direct and indirect IT budget oversight from midsize organizations and large
organization with IT budgets up to $500 Million dollars. Dmitry holds 5 CCIE's in Routing & Switching, Security, Service Provider, Storage, and ISP Dial. Dmitry has presented many seminars and lectures and published
several books.
Cisco
SENIOR
SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
/ SECURITY ARCHITECT
TECH LEAD
1999 - 2011
San Jose, CA
During my first years at Cisco, I was a member of Professional Services, providing technical support to Cisco's large service provider accounts. I later became part of the Central Engineering team within the Customer Advocacy organization.
My
main areas of focus: IP routing protocols and MPLS Technologies.
Provided design and consulting assistance to the Advanced Services accounts deploying MPLS networks. During the last few years, I led various
large MPLS-related (L3/L2 VPN and Metro Ethernet) projects and have been involved in the design and deployment of MPLS in the Enterprise as well as SP networks. I worked on a new role that combines my expertise
in the Service Provider environment with the new generation of Data Center/Storage technologies.
Core competencies include data center and service provider networks, collaboration systems, and network
security. Network consulting, design, and implementation.
Implement LAN/WAN, iWAN, WAAS PfR, QoS, Optimizations, MPLS, Service Provider, L2VPN, and Multicast applications. Data Center virtualization,
load balancers, FCoE, FC, iSCSI, Security designs with next-generation ASA, endpoint security, Identity Services (ISE), and VPN solutions.
Network Migration Design, Integrations, and Acquisitions, Also
Design, Management and execution of large scale (>80,000 employees) network integrations for international acquisition.
Advanced Network Management with a wide range of products and tools, Project management,
customer consulting and support, and technology innovation analysis.
Performed maintenance and software release upgrades for Cisco products and delivered presentations covering customer solutions and designs.
Developing
LLD and supporting documentation.
• Cisco ISE planning, design, implementation, optimization, and upgrades.
• First- and second-level support of Cisco ISE operations.
• Switching IEEE
802.1X and other ISE-related switch configurations.
• Cisco Wireless LAN controllers
• Cisco ISE profiling, switching infrastructure and wireless LAN controllers
• ISE backup and restore
functions, hardware and management, logging, reporting, and notification
• Cisco ISE advanced policies including IEEE 802.1X, EAP-TLS, and MAB
• Cisco ISE admin access control and hardware
and software upgrades and software patching with Cisco ISE licensing
• F5 load balancers and Cisco ISE load balancing configurations on the F5 platform
• Can use Microsoft Active Directory
•
Cisco ISE PxGrid, Cisco ISE Device Administration (TACACS+)
• Cisco iPSK Manager and iPSK authentications
• Firewall rules with emphasis on ISE ports/protocols
• Management of VMware
ESXi servers for use in testing environment
• Working knowledge of Python and Ansible for configuration management and information gathering.
KPMG
PRINCIPAL SENIOR
SYSTEM SECURITY
ARCHITECT (PARTNER)
1997 - 1999
Chicago, IL
The only Double CCIE World Wide during my time in KPMG. Directed and lead overall engineering and architect groups, responsible for assessing the skills matrix, mentoring engineers and keeping business and sales
needs of company, in-line with the capabilities and the engineers team's structure as we expanded the company into new verticals and increased professional services to new customers.
•Led the transactional
and subscription-based design and implementation engagements for large service providers and enterprise customers.
•Led the Campus Switching team and the Security team.
•Led all design engagements
and the creation of intellectual capital to be used by the general engineering community. Also, led the standardization of collateral delivery used during customer engagements.
•Primary engineer for
the Network Optimization Service in the area of Routing, Switching and WAN Switching. Technologies and protocols supported: L3VPN, L2VPN, MSTP, RSTP, BFD, DMVPN, GRE, IPSec, VoIP, and Security, TDM, Ethernet,
SONET, ATM, Frame-relay.
•Led implementation efforts when new platforms were introduced into the customer. environments, new features were being rolled out, or when software upgrades needed to be performed.
•Reactive troubleshooting on production customer environments in coordination with the Cisco TAC/Advanced Services when outages were encountered.
•Conducted weekly customer calls to communicate
progress of existing projects and track incoming project requests.
•Involved in planning, designing, and implementing IP networks and related services end to end.
•Proposed technical solutions for product and sales.
•Supported the head on CAPEX and OPEX implementations and cost-efficient initiatives.
•In charge of the Capacity Management and
the optimization of the IP network.
•Created and produced comprehensive documentation for all implemented networks.
GENERAL PROJECT EXPERIENCE •Network integration and design, client consultation,
project management, customer support and technology innovation analysis.
•Core competencies include data center and service provider networks, collaboration systems, and network security.
•Configuring,
installing, and maintaining hardware and software for LAN/WAN infrastructures to run production applications, including connectivity, security, and QoS.
•Designing, managing and executing large scale
(>10,000 employees) network integrations for international acquisitions.
•Performing maintenance and software release upgrades for Cisco products.
•Monitoring performance and availability of
LAN/WAN platforms.
•Continuously improving client support.
•Delivering presentations for customer solutions and designs.
•Delivering technology and product training for customer teams.
•Developing
LLD and supporting documentation.
Logicalis
SENIOR
NETWORK ENGINEER
1995 - 1997
Chicago, IL
Senior Network Engineer.
Entre Computer Services
SENIOR
NETWORK SPECIALIST
1992 - 1995
Brookfield, WI
Senior Network Specialist.
Masterlink Corp.
MANAGER
NETWORKING ENGINEER
1990 - 1992
Milwaukee, WI
Manager Networking Engineer.