George Boufis Email & Phone Number

Athens Metropolitan Area

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Technical Sales Lead for Southern EMEA reporting directly to regional Senior Director. Main technological areas of focus:o Modern Application (Cloud-native) Platforms o Software-Defined Datacenter(SDDC)o Driving Hybrid-Cloud adoptiono Application modernizationo Cross business unit Collaboration

Athens, Attiki, Greece

• Technical Sales collaboration with enterprise customers, business partners & VMware internal teams across BU’s building solutions in the region of Greece, Cyprus & Malta
• Strong alliances with OEM technology vendors for common go to market goals & sales initiatives (Dell, HPe, CheckPoint, Fortinet, Veeam, Cisco,)
• Trusted technology advisor to IT Managers / C-1’s of enterprise accounts in Greece & Cyprus. Indicatively: four largest banks, leading telco’s, manufacturing & insurance companies
• VMware keynote speaker & presenter for all industry events held in Greece, Cyprus & Malta. Indicatively: VMware vForums, Dell Technologies Forums, Partner Events, VMware User Groups, InfoSec Forums

Athens, Attiki, Greece

• Worked closely with customers to develop integrated solutions to help address business needs & technical challenges
• Built strong relationships with key decision makers as trusted consultant for datacenter modernization, end user computing and networking & security solutions
• Collaborated with technology vendors (Microsoft, IBM, HPe, Cisco, VMware, Veritas) to jointly architect solutions tailored to customers IT business needs

Athens, Attiki, Greece

• Global Infrastructure Consulting Services / Greece, Cyprus & MaltaManaged & built project scope of work, schedule and deliverable documentation as well as P&L for Dell GICS (Global Infrastructure Consulting Services)
• Collaborated closely with Professional Services Partners & internal Dell Product Solutions teams to design turnkey solutions for enterprise & commercial end customers
• Conducted deep technical workshops and educational sessions for end customers on Datacenter Virtualization, Storage Array Optimization and End-User modernization practices

Athens, Attiki, Greece

• Systems Administrator for company data multi-tenant data center, serving public customers
• Optimized operations by introducing Datacenter Virtualization into the organization and implementing VMware V3i
• Maintained co-located Datacenter hosting Web Applications & Portals for end-customers
• Technical point of contact for infrastructure, MS SQL Server performance & availability, and MS IIS Web Server farms

Athens, Attiki, Greece

• Systems engineer providing 2nd and 3rd level technical support & troubleshooting of end customer systems
• Built & maintained network infrastructure of both Windows & Linux systems, as well as early virtualization platforms
• Worked as Microsoft Premier partner on multiple System Center, Active Directory & Microsoft Exchange projects
• Acquired & Maintained HP Master Accredited Systems Engineer certification, earning the company the status to design & implement HP Proliant & Storage Systems

Athens, Attiki, Greece

• Supported end customer IT departments to resolveinfrastructure & end-user problems
• Performed technical planning & system integration for IBMxSeries Systems & IBM DS Series Storage Systems
• Streamlined PC provisioning for end-customers