Chris Charette

Chris Charette has over 20 years of work experience. Chris began their career in 2001 as a Pre-Sales Engineer at VERITAS Software. Chris then moved to Abrevity in 2006 as Pre-Sales Engineering Director. In 2007, they joined ONStor as a Senior Pre-Sales Engineer. After a year, they joined Quantum as a Senior Pre-Sales Engineer and stayed there for 6 years. In 2014, they joined Hewlett-Packard as a Senior Presales Storage Architect. Two years later, they moved to CloudVelox as a Solution Architect Manager. In 2018, they joined Tegile, A Western Digital Brand, as a Sr. Sales Engineer and moved to IBM in 2020 as a Sr. Storage Solutions Specialist. Most recently, they joined RackTop Systems as a Senior Solutions Architect in 2021.

Chris Charette obtained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute between 1995 and 1999. Chris has also obtained several certifications from IBM, including Containers & Kubernetes Essentials (2021), Virtual Selling - Foundation (2020), IBM Storage for Cyber Resiliency & Modern Data Protection V1 (2020), IBM Storage for Data and AI V1 (2020), IBM FlashSystem Fundamentals (2020), IBM Storage for Hybrid Multicloud (2020), IBM Tape Storage Solutions Foundations V1 (2020), All Flash Storage Foundations V2 (2020), and IBM Storage and Cloud Essentials (2020).