Early in my career, I was working in IT at Växjö University (now part of Linneaus University) in southern Sweden. We started with a student computer network to help students get email and Internet access. Later, I transitioned into the IT Department and started taking over the entire university network.
I always wanted to be a consultant, so I took the step in 2000 to change my employer to Merkantildata and become a networking consultant. Six months later, I earned the CCNA certification, which was my first certification. Since I started working as a consultant I’ve loved it. I earned my next certification in CCNP Routing and Switching in 2008.
In 2010, when Cisco was launching the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), I was in the data center helping a customer build a network. When I saw the launch, I thought that’s cool and decided then and there that I wanted to work with data center technology. Just three weeks after Cisco launched Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) in 2014, I was the first in Sweden, maybe in Northern Europe, to convince our sales guys that we should go with Cisco ACI to a customer RFI (Request for Information).
