Dave Pisarek brings 24 years of Information Technology experience to World Wide Technology, with deep expertise in network security design, integration, and customer enablement. Dave is a Fortinet NSE 4-certified professional with hands-on experience across the full Fortinet portfolio — including FortiGate NGFW, FortiADC, FortiSD-WAN, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiConverter, and FortiSASE. He has led FortiSASE proof-of-concept engagements, built FortiConverter demo labs, and authored multiple articles on the WWT platform covering topics such as the 2024 Fortinet Accelerate event, FortiConverter use cases, SD-Branch solutions, and Fortinet Partner point-of-view content. Dave regularly provides consulting services that help customers successfully plan and implement Fortinet solutions. On the F5 side, Dave holds F5 CA, CTS-ASM, CTS-LTM, and CTS-DNS certifications, with broad experience across F5 ASM, DNS, LTM, BIG-IQ, and Viprion platforms. His project highlights include designing and deploying multi-data-center F5 ASM environments for a major service provider — protecting high-traffic pre-order websites during large mobile device launches — and managing a BIG-IQ upgrade overseeing 277 F5 AFM instances. At a large financial institution, Dave introduced F5 ASM into the enterprise infrastructure, developed the ASM application onboarding lifecycle, and built a full support model. He also created correlation searches, workflows, and dashboards within Splunk ES, integrated Splunk with Phantom (SOAR), and delivered knowledge transfer across multiple security teams — expanding the organization's internal F5 expertise at scale. Dave is known for his ability to translate complex requirements into practical, standards-aligned solutions. He combines a strong network security foundation with sharp communication skills, a talent for cross-functional collaboration, and a track record of delivering results in both enterprise and service provider environments.