Brett Sheppard is director of big data product marketing at Splunk Inc. Brett's career combines roles as a data analyst at Gartner and U.S. Department of Defense and as a product and solution marketer at both large technology vendors and startups. Brett is a certified Hadoop system administrator. Based six years overseas, in Europe and Asia, Brett has enjoyed working onsite across the U.S. and in 35+ countries to help enterprises and public sector accounts evolve their data architectures to manage and benefit from big data.