Gabriel Dixon is a Technical Marketing Engineer for data center technologies on Cisco's Enterprise Solutions Engineering (ESE) team. He is currently focused on partner solution validation with VMWare and EMC. Dixon has been at Cisco for more than 9 years; he previously held systems and solutions testing positions for the Cisco Catalyst 4000 and Catalyst 6000 series product lines. Prior to Cisco, he worked at Bay Networks and Sun Microsystems delivering network management solutions as a systems test engineer and consulting engineer. Dixon holds a bachelor of science degree in management.