David Risley, Mba Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Canada Area

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Canada Area

Calgary, Canada

• Presales Sales Engineer working with enterprise Energy, Oil and Gas customers. • Demonstrated ability to sell IT Infrastructure solutions and eliminate technical roadblocks. • Experience with: Cloud computing, converged infrastructure (Vblock), storage and server virtualization, VMware, virtualizing tier 1 applications, VDI, enterprise storage, NAS, SAN, business continuity and disaster recovery (BC & DR), backup and recovery, scale-up and scale-out architectures, flash memory storage, and more.• Demonstrated ability to meet and exceed sales targets.

Calgary, Canada

• Responsible for successful IT Infrastructure project deployment within Downstream Shell Group as part of a large global program. • Liaise with a geographically diverse set of stakeholders and business units to determine schedule, identify risks, develop mitigation plans, and facilitate the resolution of project escalations. • Managed migration activities for Downstream sites in Canada, Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, Spain, and Portugal, including chemical plants, refineries, and remote depots. • Worked closely with on-site operational teams to ensure project quality and schedule were maintained. • Assisted with Application Remediation and Application Compatibility Testing projects.• Worked in a virtual team environment with team members located all over the globe. • Managed direct reports and project resources both locally and remotely.• Responsibility included Upstream Americas (Heavy Oil) Program on Oil Sands IT Infrastructure Projects.

Greater Denver Area

IPscience, LLC. is a privately held firm committed to bringing leading knowledge and best practices to optimize IP-based communications. IPscience provides managed services VoIP and other telecommunications services to small and medium businesses in the Colorado Front Range. • Responsibilities include: sales, operations management, people management, professional service delivery management, technical services delivery.

Denver, Colorado

Responsibilities included pre-and-post sales roles working with large enterprise customers across multiple verticals.• Worked with HP's largest and most important accounts. • Served as single point of contact for technical and business issues and helped facilitate delivery of customized IT infrastructure solutions. • Transformed transactional sales into strategic opportunities.• Assisted with strategic planning and business development activities for HP.• Delivered technical and competitive-positioning presentations.• Created productive alliances with internal business units.• Consistently recognized as a top achiever. Job titles included:Enterprise Systems EngineerAccount EngineerHardware Support SpecialistCustomer Engineer

Mba, Masters Of Business Administration

Bs Ee, Electrical Engineering