Pre-sales engineer for Balabit's suite of contextual security products.

Technical sales support for IBM's software defined infrastructure portfolio including the Spectrum Scale high performance, unified file and object storage system and the IBM Platform Computing family of workload and resource optimization software.

Served as architect and technical specialist for Unisys Forward!, a converged computing infrastructure for Linux and Windows Server environments on Intel Xeon platforms using Unisys secure logical partitioning or s-Par® technology.• Teamed with sales executives in defined territories to launch Forward! suite of secure software-defined datacenter products, a new offering category for Unisys.• Provided subject matter expertise and technical consulting to customers and assisted with implementation.• Created higher performance VMware vSphere environments by installing and integrating vCenter Server and ESXi hosts into the high bandwidth, low latency Forward! fabric, accelerating critical vSphere features such as vMotion, DRS, High Availability and vSphere Fault Tolerance.• Supplied technical sales support for Unisys Stealth, an innovative defense-grade, software-based network and information security suite.

Responsible for sales of IBM’s x86 based Intelligent Cluster integrated HPC Linux cluster offering and associated hardware and software products in the Northeast US. My customer set comprises the financial services segment, life sciences and pharmaceuticals, higher education, aerospace, automotive and HPC managed service providers.

Consulting services for enterprise clients in support of mission-critical hardware and software environments. -- TCP/IP network design and performance analysis. Assisted clients in developing and deploying snmp-based enterprise network management systems. -- Consulting services for network security. Designed and installed secure corporate internet gateway solutions. These solutions comprised custom screened subnet firewall systems using packet filtering interior and exterior routers combined with bastion hosts through which all inbound and outbound internet services are mediated via suitable proxy programs. Created access control lists for the Cisco packet filtering routers. -- Software development services. Ported customers’ legacy C and FORTRAN applications to IBM workstations and servers, modifying the source code as necessary to ensure correct operation, standards compliance and to enhance portability and optimize performance. -- Developed TCP and UDP (Berkeley sockets) based client/server programs for clients to assist with enterprise application deployments on Linux, AIX, Sun/OS and Solaris. -- Delivered formal classroom training to the I/T staffs of corporate clients to assist in the migration to open source server environments. Curriculum included OS fundamentals, the shell, standard utilities and editors, basic programming and scripting, networks and network administration. Developed all course presentation materials, delivered lectures and supervised lab exercises. -- Consulting services for Oracle relational database management systems including installation, configuration and performance tuning. Installed and configured high availability clusters. -- Project management for several large-scale client I/T projects. Assisted clients in defining project objectives and scope, defining project phases, identifying required tasks and identifying and assigning resources. Managed resources and schedules to project completion.

Systems Engineer supporting sales of IBM hardware and software products for engineering-scientific and CAE customers.