Christopher Medina

Christopher Medina has a diverse work experience in various roles and industries. In their current role at Chef Software, they serve as the Director & GM Public Sector Sales, where they are responsible for driving automation strategies and providing innovative DevSecOps and CI/CD solutions for the US Federal Government and Public Sector. Prior to this, they worked as a Solutions Architect Manager at Chef Software, focusing on driving DevOps and DevSecOps initiatives.

Before joining Chef Software, Christopher worked at Proofpoint as a Sr Sales Engineering Manager, where they were responsible for creating solution architectures and integrating analytics for enterprise clients. Prior to their time at Proofpoint, they served as the Director of Specialty Sales Engineering at Dell EMC, where they oversaw vertical specialty engineering, data storage portfolio solutions, and federal customer enablement.

Christopher also has experience at EMC Isilon as an Area Specialist Manager, overseeing file/block portfolio solutions for enterprise business, and at EMC as a Senior Engineering Manager, leading pre-sales engineers in supporting NAS solution architectures. Christopher also worked at Cisco Systems as a Senior Engineering Manager, managing a team of network consultants focused on network, data center, unified communications, and security.

In the early stages of their career, Christopher worked at BAE Systems as a Senior Engineering Manager, overseeing a large team of engineers and handling project and program management for government global data storage programs. Prior to that, they worked at Axent as a Security Systems Engineer, specializing in host-based intrusion detection for the financial sector. Christopher started their career as an Account Manager at GTE Govt Systems.

Overall, Christopher Medina has a strong background in sales engineering, solution architecture, and leadership roles, particularly in the technology and government sectors.

Christopher Medina has a diverse education history. In 1990, they began their undergraduate studies at Radford University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree. The field of study for this degree is unknown. In 2002, Christopher received a certificate from Yale Law School, specializing in negotiations. Four years later, in 2006, they attended Carnegie Mellon University, where they obtained a certificate in CMMI. Lastly, in 2008, they pursued a certificate in Business Economics and Business Process from the UNH Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics.