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Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Strive to be a partner with the CTO/CIO, and is a subject matter expert at aligning IT to business needs.Dell's Healthcare and Life Sciences organization supports 1,000s of healthcare providers, health plans, pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, diagnostic and scientific instrumentation customers worldwide.Develop strategy around different solutions: Business Intelligence & Analytics, Big Data, and Information ManagementInvolved in process/team to sell multiple Lines of Business and/or high-end services (e.g. managed / professional services) across multiple industriesInvolved in process/team to sell primarily enterprise products and managed services with additional sale of computers, printers, peripherals and other hardwareInvolved in process/team to sell to CEO, CIO, CTO, etc. and may sell to purchasing groups or other decision-making authoritiesAnticipates how market and competitive factors will influence the selling of Dell products and servicesEffectively exercises power and influences key decisions for the benefit of Dell and the customerVerifies operability of highly complex product and service configuration within the customer’s environmentSynthesizes market and industry data to provide thought leadership to position value of the Dell solutionLeverages third-party and/or the Channel to create and position the Dell solutionProvides counsel across account team in analyzing customer requirements and performing advanced systems integration and providing technical expertise to design and implement solution using breadth of Dell products and services

Littleton, Colorado, Us

Senior pre-sales engineer supporting Energy accounts for Epoch Concepts using key partner product portfolios like EMC, SGI and StorageTek.Understand EMC portfolio of products that range from storage solutions such as Isilon and VNX/VMAX to pivotal solutions around cloud foundry and hadoop infrastructure concepts.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Work closely with IBM Brand Sales Specialists, Client Executives, and Technical Computing geographic leaders to develop business opportunities, analyze customer requirements and provide customer facing selling skills in complex technical environments. Establish working relationships with key Business Managers and IT Managers and staff in the customers’ organizations, assisting them to deploy and leverage GPFS and related products (GPFS Storage Server, IBM SONAS, IBM STG Systems and Software) effectively into their various IT environments as part of their evaluation of the product suite. Maintain an understanding of competitive products and HPC industry/market trends. Expand and grow the technical aspects of the product in customer account relationships and ongoing management. Have the ability to link GPFS product features with broader software stacks and operations to meet or exceed customer business needs. Be able to scope file system related projects, able to codify project phases and write out a sophisticated implementation plan. Demonstrate customer management and communication skills, be able to describe GPFS and associated solutions to customer in business terms.Demonstrate high level Project Management skills, with ability to define and describe major project implementation phases.Discuss potential sales opportunities with Account Managers, and perform technical analysis and qualification of potential customer projects, often on-site with the customer.Design and conduct GPFS and related product presentations and demonstrations as well as question & answer discussions with the customer’s technical staff at increasing levels of complexity. Understanding of the following areas:-High Performance Computing / Supercomputing-Grid Computing-Parallel File systems-Cloud Computing-Virtualization-Enterprise Data Center automation tools-Infrastructure architecture to support Enterprise Analytics applicationsUS Federal and Life Sciences Focus

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Systems engineer responsibilities include presenting, writing proposals and developing proof of concepts using IBM GPFS and Platform products with US Federal customers and US West commercial and public sector regions. Product abilities include areas of resource management, parallel file systems (including HPSS/TSM/HSM integration concepts), Big Data, Real Time analytics and Cluster Management (including xCAT).

Houston, Texas, Us

* Work with sales to develop opportunities in the areas of Cloud, HPC, Grid, and Linux.* Early involvement with customer engagements* Lead the development of solution architectures, to include delivery and support models which prioritize customer satisfaction* Maintain trusted advisor relationships with customers and channel partners that strengthen our position for sales opportunities* Technical Lead on HPC/Cloud/Grid opportunities* Develop, integrate, and test deployable HPC/Cloud/Grid software environment for demos, proof of concepts, etc* Test and evaluate new products in lab environment that simulate real world customer expectationso Leverage best of Open Source and commercial components such in solutions such as, EC2, Hadoop, Lustre, Panasas, SLURM, LSF, Torque, Moab to name a few* Travel expectations (50-75%)

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

- Administered Los Lobos, an IBM 256 node system running xCAT 1.0- Administered Black Bear, a donated VA Linux system running system imager 1.0- Administered truchas, a condor desktop cluster tied into a flock with UNM CS department and University of Wisconsin @ Madison. - Administer IT infrastructure that included Solaris, AIX, IRIX, Debian Linux and HP-UX.