Jerry Ness
Cloud Strategist Dell Technologies
Jerry is a Cloud Strategist on Dell Technologies’ ARC Solutions (AI-Research-Cloud) team focused on customer-centric Cloud & Containers. Jerry has focused on emerging technologies throughout his career and his current technology focus is the Container and Kubernetes movement. Jerry supports Dell Technologies’ executive briefing centers as part of the discussion leader bureau team. He is a frequent speaker at Dell Technologies events and other industry forums that feature opensource technologies used to enable Cloud and Container solutions.
Jerry began his career with the USAF as a telecommunication technician and later become a data support network engineer and test systems automation engineer for MCI. He spent a few years working with Agilent technologies selling test equipment and automation to the telecommunications field. Then he transitioned into infrastructure automation through a startup software company. This led to an eventual acquisition of that startup and Jerry by Dell Technologies. Jerry’s career has included two decades of experience with networking and infrastructure automation and this focus is key to his current areas of specialization.