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Conroe, Tx, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

A Pure Storage Pre-Sales Systems Engineer plays a crucial role in understanding our customers' unique challenges and tailoring Pure Storage solutions to meet their specific needs. Collaborating closely with the sales team, l act as a technical expert during the sales process, helping to showcase the value of our products and services.

San Jose, California, Us

Senior Pre-Sales/Systems Engineer reporting to the Systems Engineering Manager of SLED and partner with Account Managers to cover SLED accounts in Houston, Texas and TOLA region.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

(Formerly VCE, EMC before Dell acquired the company) Evangelized converged and hyper converged infrastructure. Provided in-depth technical expertise to support pre-sales activities in APJ, TOLA and WEST regions. Gathered requirements, performed analysis, and designed fully integrated technology solutions with technical emphasis on converged and hyper-converged infrastructure platforms including virtualization, compute, network, storage, management, orchestration, and custom application and use case requirements. Part of the pre-sales team that successfully lead VCE to a $1 billion revenue target (VCE was less than 4 years old) and 50% YoY growth. Received many sales awards for exceeding sales quota by > 200% for four years straight. • Actively trained new hires (CSS, EMC and Dell Core) on CSS Products/ Product Strategies/ Sales Plays and objection handling.• Represented Dell CSS at industry trade shows (Cisco Live, EMC World, VMWare VM World and Dell Technologies World) and Customer Briefings at the RR Dell Executive Briefing center on our Technical Products and Solutions.• Worked with Internal product management teams at Dell to provide feedback from field into Product Vision/ Roadmap and Enhancements –specifically VxBlock, VxRail and VxFlex solutions.• Designed, presented and drove adoption of Dell VScale Infrastructure at the Largest Non-Profit Healthcare System in South Louisiana, driving a revenue of over 27 million dollars in 2019 (which contributed almost 45% of Dell CSS annual goal).• Drove adoption of VCE Converged Infrastructure (VxBlock) at many large Oil and Gas customers in Houston, Austin and Oklahoma, driving revenues of over 40 million dollars over 2 years - 2014-2015.• Grew the Houston territory significantly when I joined VCE in 2013 (Revenue stream grew from 0-8 million dollars).

Houston, Texas, Us

Solutions Architect/ Professional Services Consultant / Pre Sales Engineer - Pre-sales activities including customer facing events, presentations, demonstrations, evaluations, and proof of concept deployments, develop sales training and enablement collateral. Worked closely with the sales organization to understand specific customer issues and provide solutions that address broader customer challenges. Develop sales tools intended to educate the customer and expedite the sales process. Also involved in partner enablement activities such as courseware development and delivery. Heavily involved in closing several opportunities including international service providers and telecommunications companies with revenues exceeding $2Mil.Professional/Consulting Services – Involved in post-sales activities including solution architecture, product implementation, and multiple product integrations.Product Management - Quality Assurance through testing, competitive analysis in "bake-off" scenarios and feature prioritization.Development - Activities including the creation of installation and configuration tools and utilities, documentation, performance analysis, and administration of Demo/Proof Of Concept/ Evaluation/Development Test Lab/QA environments.

Houston, Tx, Us

I was responsible for providing and maintaining high-quality, reliable, flexible, and appropriate infrastructure and networking technology solutions for University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center. These systems are used campus-wide by physicians, patients, faculty, students, guests and staff in accordance with MD Anderson's goals. As a Network Engineer, I worked very closely with Information Services Directors and Managers.I recommended actions to improve the operation of the network. My duties also included evaluation of tools for network operation and monitoring in order to properly maintain and support these systems. The Network Engineering group is responsible for all technical aspects of networking installation, maintenance and support.KEY FUNCTIONS: Engineering / Design / Project Consultation Correct Network Failures Modify Network Device Configurations Monitor and Analyze Network Performance Change Management and Communication Network Enhancement and Development

Broomfield, Co, Us

Provided direct pre and post technical sales support for a broad array of communications technologies, including some high end products, within general business, national wholesale, or national carrier service provider customer segments and Sales personnel. Had to analyze and understand each customer’s business requirements, assist them with defining or identifying telecommunications gaps, designed and engineered complex data, transport voice, and converged networks to support those required goals to meet the overall telecommunication needs for each business case.

Responsible for entire data and voice communication infrastructure for Robbins & Myers, a multi-site, multi-national, 3000+ person organization. My duties were to Engineer, deploy, document, and administer LAN and WAN solutions, including testing, specifying, ordering, configuring and administering the network infrastructure on an international level. Managed all projects to integrate business units into the International corporate network infrastructure. Migrated from frame relay network to self-managed IPSEC VPN wide area network, fully meshed with NSP managed network, resulting in savings of more than 500K in five years, and 2700% increase in available network bandwidth.Implemented DMVPN solution for dynamic fail-over and dynamic VPN meshing and traffic routing to reduce congestion at current VPN hubs at the US based Global NOC, and Scotland based European NOC.

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Provided 24x7 direct- support for customers and strategic sales teams located on the West Coast, Gulf Coast and RLX's Houston Headquarters. My projects required design and implementation of Cisco, Linux and Windows Systems Infrastructures. Very heavy data center co-location experience for all size infrastructures. Over 13 years hands on experience with design and implementation of network cabling and distribution of wired, fiber-optic and wireless infrastructures. Expert at implementing consolidated management, deploying total control and establishing a true virtual presence to any infrastructure. Outstanding track record with pre-sales consulting and total systems integration. Vast experience with Blade computing design and implementation services for the Oil and Gas industry and large internet companies like Yahoo and Overture Services Inc.(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/23/rlx_exits_hardware/ )

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

My team and I were directly responsible for the ongoing operations and 100% availability of Yahoo / Overture's dot-com and global data network infrastructures. Job duties included the design and implementation of individual solutions as well as the ongoing maintenance and management of Overture.com/Yahoo.com product and corporate data networks. I held a critical management role in the Data Communications organization. Responsibilities included the overall day to day management and coordination of Senior Network Engineers, global service providers and all vendors, Network design and infrastructure including North America, Asia Pacific, Europe and South America.

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Within the Global Professional Services division of Nortel, I was responsible for delivering many diverse types of consulting services to Nortel partners and customers, including Telco's, Enterprises, ISP's, web hosting facilities, e-commerce and dot-com companies. Responsible for providing assessment, architecture, design, analysis and total systems implementation of strategic, high performance communications architecture solutions for a variety of clients, including AT&T, Verizon, Schlumberger Batelco (Bahrain), Exodus, AAA Auto Club, Daimler-Chrysler, General Motors, Ebay, Yahoo!, EPhysician and many others. I also managed complex, technical engagements and segments of engagements as well as performed writing and review of technical consulting report deliverables, pre and post engagement. In addition, assisted in the development and maintenance of technical consulting methodologies and provided formal and informal training programs to customers, clients and peers.

Arlington, Va, Us

*Responsible for staff of 10 Network Engineers and 2 Voice Engineers.*Designed and Deployed new routing solution for Enterprise ATM Network (5000+ nodes). The deployment consisted of two, Cisco Catalyst 6506 with MSFC;s. This resolved a multitude of network performance and monitoring issues. *Designed and built a lab infrastructure. This was a key factor in the success of our projects thorough testing based on realistic scenarios. We recreated functionally similar environments to test scenarios in preparation for upcoming implementations and in evaluating conceptual designs as well as recreation of occasional issues. *Deployed ATM Core and Edge switches, both Fore Systems and Cisco Catalyst series switches.*Designed and deployed full ATM video teleconferencing solution worldwide. *Designed and Deployed segregated IP networks intended for isolated, secure, systems development. Utilized Cisco router's with Firewall feature set to filter packets based on established policy.

Clearwater, Florida, Us

I was responsible for all Infrastructure, Windows NT 4.0 and Back Office implementations both local and at 425 sites around the country. Successfully Completed 2-year 10 million-dollar project involving Microsoft Back Office products and a custom designed Visual Basic application. Successfully integrated electronic communications and file replication across T1, RAS and Frame relay circuits. Managed two CISCO Catalyst 8510 switch routers, Catalyst 4000 backbone switch, 20 Cisco 2924XL Catalyst switches, over 400 remote Cisco 1601 routers, Ascend MAX models 4004, 6000 and Pipeline 130 on demand routers with both T1/PRI and Frame Relay circuits to all remote sites in the enterprise. Administered SQL Server 6.5, SMS Server 1.2 and Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 and 5.5 with over 350 local and dial in users, and 3000 users on 425 remote Windows NT 4.0 networks. Manage the wide area and local area private network (all TCP/IP) from corporate headquarters.

As EUC Specialist I performed the duties of Network Specialist / MS Mail Systems Administrator. I supported 300-350 users locally, 6000 users nationwide and 14,000 users Internationally. My other areas of focus include Windows NT Server (3.x and 4.x) System Administration and support, Microsoft Exchange Server (4.x), Lotus Notes (4.x) Administration and support, local network printer administration and support and Novell NetWare (3.x and 4.x) support. My Windows experience includes Windows NT Workstation (3.x and 4.x), Windows 95 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11. I also supported all UNIX, AS/400 and ES9000 emulation. When I started in March of 1996 there was a backlog of 232 outstanding support calls and the Service levels were 40 days to resolve problems. As a direct result of my efforts the Service Levels were 10 days and typically all calls were resolved successfully in 24 hours. In recognition of my due diligence in customer service duties, management has given me several awards.I was selected by upper administration to participate in an internal Management Training Program in preparation for promotion to management.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

As MIS Help Desk Analyst my main responsibility was to provide technical support and problem resolution for local users, outside sales representatives and to other locations such as Manufacturing and the Distribution Warehouse. I also did Novell 3.12 Systems Administration and ORACLE Systems Administration such as creating accounts, assigning responsibilities, customizing modules, views, pick-lists and even building custom responsibilities tailored to a specific task. My other areas of responsibility were the installation and configuration of all networked printers, the documentation of all procedures including all modules in ORACLE and the requisitioning and ordering of all hardware and software. This was a 1st and 2nd level support role.

Washington, Dc, Us

As a Non-Commissioned Officer and Section Leader in Delta Company, 3rd Amphibious Assault Battalion I received an Honorable Discharge in November 1994. I carried a Confidential Security clearance and was Training Officer for over 200 Marines. I was held responsible for their training and records of achievement. In addition to leading and training Marines I was also tasked with the ordering of parts and supplies using the MIMMS System. (Military Information Maintenance Management System) During my service in the Marine Corps I was awarded the National Defense Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Sea Service Deployment with two stars, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Joint Meritorious unit Award, Good Conduct Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Letter of Commendation and a Letter of Appreciation. In addition to serving six months in Okinawa and Mainland Japan I also participated in Operation Restore Hope, Somalia, Africa 92-12-18 to 93-04-28. My last six months in the Marines I was assigned temporary duty (TAD) to the Regimental I.S.M.O. (Information Systems Management Officer) this was my first step towards my career in the technical industry. I built my first Novell 2.0 server and installed networked Windows machines for email and other forms of information distribution.

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