Christopher Atkinson Email & Phone Number

• Architect in Al/ML Solutions team with focus on providing enterprises with Al/ML ready solutions and Dell Validated Designs
• Formerly Architect in Future Growth Engines group with focus on future technologies and emphasis on Dell Apex Cloud offerings
• Lead architect on multiple projects incubating strategic direction for SaaS platform initiatives including Infrastructure as Code and policy based endeavors around active management
• Lead architect for working group on implementing secure device onboarding with FIDO
• Inventor on 17 patents (7 Granted, 4 Published and 6 Pending) in United State Patent Office, several of which are slated for inclusion into products (see patent portfolio appendix for details and clickable links)
• Cross BU (SaaS, Datacenter, Edge, Telco) technical liaison working with Product Managers, Architects, Data Scientists andEngineering teams

Atlanta, Georgia

• Cloud and Compute Business Unit Cloud software technical lead covering Private Cloud laaS and optimization product lines including UCS Director (Private Cloud laaS offering) Intersight Cloud Orchestrator and Intersight.
• Technical arm/SME for Product Management team helping define requirements, assisting with grooming of product backlog and acting as a technical liaison with the engineering teams
• Managed and created technical decision maker collateral, live and online demonstrations using video recording and clickable demo software
• Lead several partner integrations including Pure Storage, NetApp and Hitachi Provided formal field and partner updates (deep dive) sessions on product capabilities and updatesProvided support to field sales teams to.

• Manager Product owner for Cisco integrations and supported on premises feature sets
• Worked all aspects of product delivery
• Cisco WOM Product Owner
• Customer input gathering and translation to backlog items
• Field/sales input gathering and translation to backlog items
• Managing and prioritization of engineering backlog

• Technical Marketing Engineer | Compute Systems Product Group
• Engineer on Unified Computing Systems (UCS) competitive intelligence team with speciality in technical analysis of Cloud software, hardware management software, APIs and baseboard management controllers
• Work directly with product management teams to educate on competitive landscape and customer mindset of features
• Create technical analysis material of competing products for worldwide field distribution including battlecards and full competitive presentations
• Programmability expertise utilizing APIs and extending into automation and provisioning engines
• Hybrid cloud designs and use case development with Cisco CloudCenter

• Senior architect for Travelport’s worldwide VMware vSphere environments
• Senior architect on Cisco UCS infrastructure
• Key role in creating purchasing requirements for hardware and software including VMware ELA and all server hardware infrastructure
• Provide presale technical overviews to large prospective Cisco UCS clients per customer reference agreement
• Design and execution of all MS Windows clusters utilizing Microsoft Cluster Services (20+ multi node clusters)
• Senior architect for worldwide Altiris Server Management Suite Solution for 8,000+ Servers (Windows, Linux, and VMware)

· Supported Mixed OS environment (Novell 3.x, 4.x, 5.x; Windows NT 4, 2000); · Administered LAN/WAN environment (Approx. 5,000 users)· Provided technical support for Field Network Engineers· Assisted in technical interviews for prospective employees· Prepared and installed servers at remote sites

· Repaired and troubleshot computer problems· Provided technical support for Field Technicians· Prepared 1000+ computers for use at state wide correctional facilities