Chris Nelson is the Director of Systems Engineering at SwiftStack and wears dual hats in product management and as the leader of SwiftStack's pre-sales storage architects. Prior to joining SwiftStack, he spent three years building a global pre-sales team as Director of Sales Engineering at Nexenta Systems after spending over 10 years in a variety of design and development engineering roles for storage products at Sun Microsystems. Chris holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering , summa cum laude, from Kettering University and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University.