Joerg Reinecke

Born on November 21, 1969, in Bad Harzburg, Germany, I attended school in Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany, from 1976 to 1986. I completed vocational training as an electrician from 1986 to 1990. From 1990 to 1996, I served in the German Air Force as an aircraft engineer on the Tornado, stationed in Memmingen, Bavaria, Germany. From 1996 to 2001, I worked for IBM, where I began specializing in network technology in 1996. I initially worked at the Disaster Recovery Data Center in Mainz, Germany, responsible for networking and WAN connectivity to the customer, before later moving into a role akin to IBM's TAC for Cisco products. From 2001 to 2006, I worked as a Network Engineer for EDS, focusing on Campus and Data Center projects. I joined Cisco in January 2007 as an onsite Network Operations Specialist (NOS). Since 2007, I have worked as a Network Consulting Engineer (NCE), primarily on Data Center projects, and joined the AS Europe Data Center Virtual Team the same year. I was part of the