Joseph Ristaino

Sadiq H. Memon (CCIE No. 47508 DC; Greater Detroit Area, MI) is a Solutions Integration Architect with Cisco Advanced Services. He has over 25 years of diversified IT experience, specializing in datacenter environments. He has been with Cisco for over a decade, helping large customers in automotive, finance, manufacturing, and government to design, implement, and support end-to-end architectures and solutions. He has published videos on ACI configuration on YouTube Channel and presented ACI/Cloud related topic in Cisco Live. He possesses IT industry certifications from Cisco, VMWare, Microsoft, and Citrix, and has received multiple awards for outstanding performance. 


Carlo Schmidt (CCIE, DC; Research Triangle, NC) is Technical Leader for Cisco’s ACI Solutions Support Team. As a TAC engineer, he specializes in Nexus switching technologies including ACI, FabricPath, VXLAN, FCoE, and OTV. He has spoken several times at Cisco Live. Joseph Ristaino (Research Triangle, NC), Technical Leader with Cisco’s DCBU ACI Escalation Team, has worked with ACI since its launch in 2014. He now works closely with ACI TAC teams on critical customer issues. Formerly part of Cisco’s Server Virtualization team, he has over six years’ experience helping customers implement and manage their data center deployments. He has spoken multiple times at Cisco Live.

Joseph Ristaino is a Technical Leader with the DCBU ACI Escalation Team in RTP, North Carolina. he joined Cisco in 2011 after graduating from Wentworth Institute of Technology with a bachelors in Computer Networking. Joseph started on the Server Virtualization team specializing in UCS and Virtualization technologies. He has an in depth knowledge of Compute/Networking technologies, and over 6+ years of supporting customers as they implement and manage Data Center Deployments around the globe. Joseph now works closely with the ACI TAC teams to provide assistance on critical customer issues that go unsolved, and has been working on ACI since inception in 2014. Joseph have spoken multiple times at Cisco Live.