About the Technical Reviewers

Krishna Arji is a senior manager at Cisco. In this role, he is responsible for the development of technology that enables delivery of Cisco Services. Krishna has held various positions in the Services Technology Group at Cisco. Most recently, he played a key role in evaluating and developing technologies required for the delivery of cloud planning, design, and implementation services. Under his leadership, his team has developed several tools to perform routing, switching, data center, security, and WLAN assessments of customers’ infrastructure. His areas of expertise include networking, software design and development, and data center technologies such as virtualization. Krishna holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications engineering, and he has a master’s degree in enterprise software technologies. He has a patent pending with USPTO for Automated Assessments of Storage Area Networks (Serial No. 13/115,141).

Eric S. Charlesworth is a Technical Solutions Architect in the WW Data Center/Virtualization & Cloud architecture organization at Cisco Systems. Eric has more than 20 years of experience in the Data Center/Networking field and is currently focused on Cloud Computing and Data Center management. Formerly, he worked in various technical leadership positions at companies such as BellSouth and IBM. Eric is also a member of the review board for the Cloud Credential Council (www.cloudcredential.org) and helped to develop and approve the material in the program, as well as for the Cloud Challenge (www.cloudchallenge.com). As a technical editor, Eric has provided technical edits/reviews for major publishing companies, including Pearson Education and Van Haren Publishing.