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Jake McTigue

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Jake McTigue, Senior Network Engineer, NSI
Jake is a Senior Network Engineer at NSI. He is responsible for customer projects as well as ongoing network management and support. Jake has been involved in server virtualization since 2002 and has been a project lead on consolidation and virtualization projects for public safety, education, and private sector applications. Before coming to NSI, Jake was the Sr. Network Engineer for Shoreline Technologies. He has been a guest speaker for VMware and has been instrumental in articulating the benefits of virtualization for NSI's customers.

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