Curriculum vitae

Brian Gautreau

Senior Solutions Engineer at F5, dedicated to the United States Army account. Twenty-nine years across Dell and F5 building, deploying, and selling enterprise infrastructure.

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Experience

2019 to present Cedar Park, TX Current

Senior Solutions Engineer

F5

Pre-sales technical lead across the F5 portfolio for the United States Army account.

  • Cover the full F5 catalog: BIG-IP, NGINX, Distributed Cloud, application security.
  • Translate mission requirements into architectures spanning data center, edge, and cloud; partner with program offices through procurement and rollout.
  • Trusted advisor on application delivery, zero-trust patterns, and modernization paths for legacy workloads.
2013 to 2019 Cedar Park, TX

Sales Engineer, Software Networking Business Unit

Brocade / Riverbed

Sales Engineer for the Brocade Software Networking business unit, supporting Cloud Service Providers across the Central and Eastern United States and Latin America.

  • Exceeded 210% of FY16 quota; $5M+ in Software Networking revenue.
  • Covered the Software Networking portfolio: Virtual ADC, Virtual WAF, Virtual Router, SDN Controller, SDN applications.
  • Drove customer-requested features into the product: Transparent Caching, Direct Server Return, phone-home improvements, HA timer tuning.
1996 to 2010 Various

Engineering, Support, Management, Consulting

Dell, Junior Achievement, Exodus Communications

Earlier career across engineering, technical support, management, and consulting roles.

Patents

  • US 9,325,608 Methods and apparatus for managing aggregated systems 2016-04
  • US 9,270,791 Methods and apparatus for network device discovery and configuration 2016-02

Selected publications

  • Microsoft Hyper-V cluster reference architecture Dell Inc., 2014
  • Citrix XenServer networking reference architecture Dell Inc., 2013
  • Blade and storage configuration guide for private cloud Dell Inc., 2013
  • Private cloud infrastructure deployment guide Dell Inc., 2014

Education

  • Texas A&M University Agricultural Systems Management 2006 to 2007
  • University of Southwestern Louisiana Mechanical Engineering 1994 to 1995