Chris Crowell Email & Phone Number

Cleveland, Oh, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Responsible for leading a team of 16 architects architects across DOD, IC, civilian, and FSI accounts, while helping to grow HPE storage marketshare in the federal government.

Houston, Texas, Us

Manager of nineteen federal storage architects covering DOD, IC, FSI, and civilian accounts.

Houston, Texas, Us

Lead storage architect for DOD team. Storage architect for HPE storage solutions, including Nimble, 3PAR, Simplivity, and StoreOnce. Territory includes select U.S. Army accounts, including the Corps of Engineers, Fort Bragg, Redstone Arsenal, and Aberdeen Proving Grounds, and more, along with DoD agencies comprising of DoDEA, DeCA, DCAA, MDA, DTIC, DMA, DFAS, DARPA, etc.

Houston, Texas, Us

Storage architect for HPE storage solutions, including Nimble, 3PAR, Simplivity, and StoreOnce. Territory includes select U.S. Army accounts, including the Corps of Engineers, Fort Bragg (JSOC, FORSCOM), and more, along with DOD agencies comprising of DoDEA, DeCA, DCAA, MDA, DTIC, DMA, DFAS, DARPA, etc.

Houston, Texas, Us

*Purchased by HPE*Sales Engineer for Nimble Storage, supporting the U.S. Army, Unified Combatant Command, DOD Agencies, and the Marine Corps.

Newark, California, Us

Pre-sales storage architect for Tegile all-flash and hybrid storage systems covering the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Unified Combatant Commands, and mid-atlantic commercial accounts for VA, D.C., MD, DE, WV, and Western PA. - Largest single deal in the company for 2015- President's Club, 2016

San Jose, California, Us

- Pre-sales systems engineer for US Army tactical and enterprise accounts- NetApp FAS, E-Series and EF-Series storage systems- Data ONTAP 7-Mode and Cluster-Mode- NAS, SAN, FC, CIFS, NFS- SSD/flash arrays

San Jose, California, Us

• Pre-sale solutions architect for Government accounts for Quantum products, including disk-based backup, tape automation, virtualization, Big Data, and cloud.• Responsible maintaining technical relationship with Government accounts, including Department of Energy, Homeland Security, NASA, FAA, and Department of Justice. • Provide pre-sales technical solutions for two regional sales managers.• Maintained quarterly pipeline of approximately $1,000,000. • Coordinate installation of products with field service engineers.• Recognized as Subject Matter Expert for virtualization among peers.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Pre-sales for North American Commerical Hardware, including servers, storage, virtualization, Solaris, and Exadata/Exalogic.• Support three account managers and manage a quarterly pipeline of approximately $6 million.• Maintain the technical relationship with both enterprise and national accounts in Virginia and Pittsburgh, PA, and map Oracle solutions to the business needs.• Recognized as the “go to guy” for Oracle virtualization products, including Oracle VM, Oracle VDI, and Oracle VirtualBox.• Design and architect solutions for Oracle’s engineered systems, including Exadata, Database Appliance, and SPARC SuperCluster• Conduct presentations on data center architecture and design to IT managers and directors and C-level executives.• Train account managers on Oracle products.• Extensive experience with Oracle Database and designing Oracle virtualization and hardware solutions around the Database.• Design and architect Solaris virtualization technologies such as Solaris Containers and Logical Domains.

Buffalo, New York, Us

• Pre-sales engineer for all Advance 2000 solutions, including PBX/VoIP, security, storage, and virtualization. • Support sales reps in quoting, and making sure the customer has the complete, correct solution.• Offer technical advice to sales reps, field engineers, management, and customers. • Travel onsite to customers for product demos, solution design.• Train sales staff on new technologies and products. • Successfully implemented a training program for new engineers.• Perform installations of Mac and OS X products, including integration into Active Directory.• Perform I.T. audits for companies, including asset management, security audits, vulnerability assessments, and licensing assessment.

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Cisco Lead Engineer – responsible for leading 23 technicians in building Cisco solutions for Ingram Micro resellers.• Prepare and conduct monthly training sessions for internal technicians.• Conduct monthly training sessions on Cisco products for Cisco sales representatives.• Pre- and post-sales support on Cisco products, including routers, switches, wireless and firewalls.• Travel onsite to resellers for product training and demonstrations.• Work with Cisco Market Development to develop business plans to increase sales among Cisco resellers.• Followed up on Cisco sales leads to closure – over $4,000,000 in the past 2 years.

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Oracle Lead Engineer – responsible for taking inbound pre-sales calls on Oracle solutions and products and leading a team of 3 other technicians. • Organized and conducted training classes and product demonstrations on various Oracle products for technicians and resellers. • Extensive experience with Database 10g, Portal and Secure Enterprise Search 10g. • Member of the Level 2 Symantec/VERITAS team for pre-sales support on enterprise products, including Netbackup, Storage Foundation and Enterprise Vault, and post-sales support on VERITAS Backup Exec. • Prepared a monthly ROI report documenting the previous Oracle activities I did, including trainings, closure of sales leads as well as customer and technician feedback.• Also a member of the Google, Cisco and Citrix support teams.

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Tripp Lite Lead Engineer – responsible for configuring Tripp Lite UPS solutions for Ingram Micro resellers along with a team of 7 other technicians. • Prepared a monthly ROI report on my Tripp Lite activities.• Conducted quarterly Tripp Lite training sessions on new and existing products.• Pre-sales support on Adobe, Intuit, Belkin and APC products.

• Troubleshooting and upkeep on a 32 PC network running Windows 2000 Professional, and two IBM servers running Windows 2000 Server.• Maintained ADP Dealer Management System with system patch uploads and installed new versions of software.• Installation and troubleshooting of PC peripherals, including printers and scanners.• Gained experience with TCP/IP.