Bob Fenner
Area Vice President, US Central at Arista Networks
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Fenner is an accomplished sales and technical leader with 30 years of experience building high-performance teams and driving enterprise networking and storage deals across the US Midwest. As Area Vice President for Arista Networks he now oversees sales across 13 states, having previously scaled his team from 2 to 40+ and grown regional business more than 685%. He pairs deep go-to-market expertise with hands-on technical contributions to open source network monitoring and FreeBSD documentation, including backend probes and SNMP improvements for the widely used SmokePing project. Known for consistently exceeding targets at NetApp and other vendors, he brings a pragmatic mix of strategic account management and operational rigor. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he actively recruits sales and engineering talent and maintains a practical appreciation for systems-level tooling that informs his customer-facing leadership.
30 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Sales Certificate, Professional Sales Certificate at The Ralph and Luci Schey Sales CentreB.B.A. Marketing, B.B.A. Marketing at Ohio University
Github Skills (13)
html10
web-development10
network-monitoring10
perl10
cgi10
freebsd9
openssh9
css9
snmpd9
snmp9
error-handling8
bash7
git5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
freebsd/freebsd-doc
Oct 1996 - Oct 2007
FreeBSD doc tree (read-only mirror)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:94 commits in 11 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Bob primarily focused on modifying the FreeBSD documentation's CGI scripts. Their work involved updating the website's look and feel, specifically the CGI-style, by modifying the HTML header and footer. They made conditional changes to the base URL path ($hsty_base) based on the server environment to ensure correct resource linking for both CGI and mirror setups. The commits also included a CSS workaround and its subsequent disabling, addressing HTML4 compatibility issues.
freebsdread-onlynetbsd
oetiker/SmokePing
Feb 2013 - Apr 2015
The Active Monitoring System
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Bob primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and reliability of the monitoring system's backend. Their contributions involved refactoring code to improve clarity and maintainability, such as replacing variables for better scoping. They also addressed error handling by improving SNMP error logging and introducing a new probe for Arista EOS devices. Furthermore, the user added a new probe to use the EOS "ping" cli command, demonstrating expertise in network monitoring and configuration.
snmpmonitormonitoringsystem-monitoring
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