Al Cook Email & Phone Number

Carrollton, Tx, Us

Dallas, Texas

Field Application Engineer, Architecture Consultant, WorldwideProviding analysis and recomendations for Computer Systems including NEBS and non-NEBs rack mount system, Intel Architecture, AdvancedTCA (Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture ) and Storage. Providing input for sales strategy and RFP (Requests for Proposal) responses. Consult with customers on technology and deployment strategy, including domestic and international regulatory requirements, to best meet their needs.

Providing technical support to customer and sales people to win customer designs for DDC products. Providing support and design consultation on 1553 data bus products. Developing material and presentation to customers. Interfacing to customers, engineering and marketing for new products. Design and prepare product demonstrations.

Field Application Engineer, Architecture Consultant, WorldwideProviding analysis and recomendations for AdvancedTCA (Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture ) and MicroTCA (Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture). Providing input for sales strategy and RFP (Requests for Proposal) responses.Brought in to salvage a $40M LTR design win at a Chinese TEM, led a successful effort that changed our sales position from least desired to front runner by architecting and driving an unsolicited RFP response ahead of the anticipated customer RFP release. Led efforts to produce our response to customers RFP and later with detailed recommendation for RNC architecture specific to customer migration from cPCI 2.16 to ATCA. Provided consultation and architecure recomendations to our largest Japanese customer, $140M LTR, in their move from 1G to 10G applications specifically for Session Boarder Control.

Field Application Engineer, Architecture Consultant, WorldwideProviding consultation and recomendations on AdvancedTCA architecures. Provided support to sales team for critical design wins and feedback to engineering and marketing on customer needs.Technical lead for architectures for a number of successful design wins for projects with collective LTR of over $140M that made this customer our largest in Japan. Prior to this achievement our total Japanese LTR was under $10M. Worked with sales teams in the US and Pacific to refine and develop sales strategies with products using architectures that were previous unfamiliar to our sales teams. Provided input, both strategic and technical, on a number of responses to Requests for Proposals from major telecommunications customers.

Field Application Engineer, US and Pacific RimField Application Engineer, USField Application Engineer, US Central RegionProvided techincal sales support for design wins in the US and Asia. Product specialties includes ATCA, cPCI 2.16 and PICMG PCI passive backplane architectures.Presented in the US, Japan, South Korea and China our new AdvancedTCA product line which successfully opened our first sales relationship for ATCA with our customers in those countries.Provided technical training in South Korea and China on ATCA and cPCI 2.16 to our Asia distributers. This work, and direct pre-sales involvement, led to a new $3M cPCI 2.16 design win in South Korea and our first contacts with major Chinese and Japanese TEMs.

Field Application Engineer, US Central RegionPrincipal Software Engineer, Embedded OS, KernelSenior Support Engineer, Embedded OSAs a field application engineer provided pre and post-sales support for customers in the US Central region for embedded products into the industrial, military and aerospace markets. Worked with marketing and engineering to provide feedback from customer back into product developmentAs a Principal Software engineer designed and developed kernel and libraries for an embedded real-time operating system. Modified C runtime library to work in a multi-threaded environment, added addition clocking features to kernel and helped develop a distributed real-time clocking layer.As a Senior Support Engineer provided hot-line support for embedded and real-time operating systems. Provided week long training on embedded and real-time operating systems to customers in the manufacturing, military and aerospace sectors.