Asa Pugh Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Al, Us

Birmingham, Al, Us

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

Operating company for various technology projects for over 20 years.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

•Connect the dots from technology solutions, inclusive of the Pure Storage portfolio and others from the ecosystem to measurable customer business outcomes•Partner closely with account manager, specialists and channel partners to create a seamless and holistic customer experience and strategy to drive revenue growth and net new business•Passionately bring to light the advantages of a Pure Storage solution•Refine sales strategy and tactics, taking command of technical responsibilities•Delight customers and teammates with your technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS and SAN product spaces•Take control of evaluations, benchmarks and system configurations•Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations with vigor to customers and lock in the technical win with clients and prospective accounts•Capture requirements and translate Customer’s business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity•Lead by example: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership and Customer-first

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Bessemer, Al, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Alabama & Georgia - Growth Market• Serve as technical expert with HPE sales team members as well as create and deliver presentations and solution proposals.• Mentor other SAs on products they are unfamiliar with, like MSA, 3PAR, StoreOnce, and StoreEasy as well as build all configurations (BOMs) for hardware and software throughout the HPE portfolio.• Create practical and robust designs to provide end-to-end technical solution, in line with business strategy and objectives.• Assess customer mission needs to design the right solution with the right HPE products along with linking the mission need to the proposed IT solutions.• Govern the solution architecture through implementation while maintaining the integrity and quality of solution designs through detail design, build, test, and implementation.• Lead multiple project teams of engineers and development partners responsible for all stages of development across multiple engineering disciplines for complex products, software, systems, and technology solutions.• Foresee potential challenges for proposed project plans and bring those to the customers’ attention with a resolution.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

• Managed technical support relationship for ~25 high complexity customers throughout Alabama in a customer facing role.• Led the account including services/support and acted as customer’s advocate as well as maximized the value of customer’s investment in Dell EMC products and services throughout the end to end customer lifecycle. • Acted as single point of contact for all support requirements as they pertain to the assigned customers’ environment to include server, network, and storage.• Ensured technical problem resolution was proceeding as per Dell EMC process as well as generated and maintained internal and external communication updates throughout the escalation process.• Compiled, analyzed, and interpreted statistical data and trends relating to service level and operational effectiveness as well as generated and maintained internal and external communication updates throughout the escalation process.

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

• Support a team of 4 Account Executives while maintaining hundreds of accounts across various verticals throughout the US. • Define end to end solutions and business offerings to meet the functional/non-functional requirements of the customers.• Provide team support for all opportunities, platform designs, and technical oversight of Edge business. • Collaborate with other IT leadership, architects, and delivery teams to ensure alignment with target and reference architectures, provide guidance, solicit feedback, and identify enterprise IT needs.• Emerged as one of the few architects at Edge to have pre and post sales experience across multiple platforms.• Facilitate complex design and technical discussions, reconciling differing opinions and driving the decision-making process

Hoover, Al, Us

• Supported 7 Account Executives and maintained ~200 accounts across multiple verticals throughout the United States. • Qualified opportunities, provided pre-sales support, developed opportunity specific strategy, and performed contract negotiation and implementation of SMB and enterprise IT solutions. • Provided support for a federal deployment with systems dispersed globally and provided team support for an additional 10 Account Executives across an 8-state region doing business globally.• Designed and implemented efficient fault tolerant computing environments for client infrastructures using the latest technology such as HP blade servers and extensive use of virtualization software such as VMware.• Implemented and managed Office365 for TSA offices nationwide and served as project manager for migrations to Office365 for several clients in the southeast market.• Obtained the highest-level training and certifications with HP, VMware, Microsoft, Veritas, and Symantec.

Birmingham, Al, Us

• Received National Associate of the Year Award in January 2009.• Assisted with technology planning to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of datacenter operation.• Established a development process for new security policies and procedures to maintain Level 4 PCI compliance.

Monett, Missouri, Us

• Configured x86 and IBM iSeries servers to host the InTouch Voice Response software package.• Setup IBM servers and configured software/hardware to meet banks’ individual needs.

Mis, Mcse Continuing Education

Advanced Computer Networking