NETSCOUT Tech Talk Tuesdays

Karl Schaub – Karl is a Chief Solutions Architect with NETSCOUT. An accomplished technologist, Karl brings more than 15+ years of hands-on experience in the disciplines of Cyber Security, Network Management, Architecture & design and Product Management. Karl holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Networking from Strayer University and a Masters of Information Technology in Internet Security from American InterContinental University along with numerous industry recognized certifications.

Alan Selby – Alan is a Principal Solutions Consultant for the NETSCOUT Federal team based in Maryland. He has served NETSCOUT Federal customers for 9 years, covering network, application, and security domains. He has over twenty years’ experience providing networking and application solutions for Federal IT customers.

Jason Chaffee – Jason is the Senior Product Manager for nGeniusPULSE, NETSCOUT’s active testing solution for cloud, hybrid, and virtual environments. Jason works with NETSCOUT’s development team, sales teams, and customers to help provide solutions to more cost-effectively and efficiently monitor access to critical business services from the client perspective.

Paul Barrett – Paul is the CTO for NETSCOUT’s Enterprise and Federal businesses overseeing a range of responsibilities that involve close contact and counsel with customers, engineering and sales teams. He joined NETSCOUT with the acquisition of Psytechnics Ltd in 2011, where he was Head of Engineering for most of his 10 year tenure at Psytechnics and was CTO when the company was acquired. Paul has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry and has been actively involved in international standardization for much of that time where he served as Vice Chairman of the ITU-T Study Group responsible for "Performance, QoS and QoE" and head of the UK delegation to this group.

Patrick Blais – Patrick is a Senior Solutions Engineer for NETSCOUT and lives in Ontario, Canada. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and holds multiple certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Certified Security Speciality, Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Azure Solutions Architect and Project Management Professional (PMP). Patrick has been helping customers solve problems at NETSCOUT for 10 years.

Tory Blaha – Tory is a Senior Sales Engineer at NETSCOUT who works with the Federal Government’s civilian accounts to provide service assurance and network monitoring solutions. Tory has more than 18 years of experience in the Network industry that began with managing and monitoring the Internet backbone at UUNET to becoming a Network Engineer for the U.S. Senate. At the Senate, Tory became the lead for managing the network monitoring tools where he managed and utilized NETSCOUT’s enterprise solution to resolve network issues.

Tom Bienkowski – Tom is a Director, Product Marketing for NETSCOUT and has been in the network and security field for more than 20 years. During this time, he has been a Network Engineer and for multiple network management and security vendors where he has had roles in Sales Engineering /Management, Technical Field Marketing and Product Management. He is currently focused on our industry leading Arbor DDoS protection solutions. Tom routinely speaks at IT security events around the world providing insights into cyber threats and best practices in defense.