Sean McKeown

Sean McKeown is a Technology Solutions Architect in Cisco’s Worldwide Cloud Infrastructure and Software Sales team where he has a global role designing customer solutions for multicloud operations with both Cisco and third-party software and hardware offerings. As a certified Turbonomic ACE and a Cloudera-certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop (CCAH), Sean also works closely with Cisco's internal development teams and external partners to help Cisco design and tailor its cloud and data center solutions for customers. Sean joined Cisco from Oracle Corporation, where he was IT Director in their Global IT Service Operations group, managing technical operations teams supporting Oracle's data center infrastructure services, enabling both internal business applications as well as as-a-service customer solution offerings. Sean has over 25 years of IT industry experience spanning big data, data center technical sales, production data center management, Unix systems administration, storage management, backup and recovery, ITIL-based change management, and Hadoop, HBase and Oracle database administration. Sean has a M.S. in astrophysics from Northwestern University and a B.S. in physics from Georgetown University. Sean lives in Manitou Springs, CO with his wife and two children, and enjoys mountain biking, rock climbing, snowboarding, scuba diving, and amateur astronomy.