David Kobel Email & Phone Number

Southern California

Irvine, Ca

I Joined the Pivotal team focused on the Big Data products and have expanded my role to support the application modernization for our customers. Pivotal is leading the industry with the ability to transform companies into becoming “Cloud Native” for continuous application deployment while leveraging big, fast and complex data. Pivotal has expanded their breadth of coverage with its Big Data Suite which includes Greenplum, HAWQ, Gemfire In-Memory DataGrid as well as Open Source supported products like Hadoop, Spark, Spring Java Framework, RabbitMQ and TCServer. Pivotal Cloud Foundry provides the enabling, cross environment platform for application deployment and Pivotal Labs extreme application development style is the key component for helping customers succeed in application infrastructure modernization. Pivotal is currently privately held by EMC, VMware and GE.

PreSales Technical Consultant for Greenplum in the Southern California area.

Engaged in all aspects of technical sales for a start-up Pre-Packaged Analytic BI implementation and product sales company focusing on SAP Business Objects and Qlikview. My responsibilities include product development, technical presentations, SaaS deployment, sales support, integration architecture, hardware sizing, web deployment solutions, the service proposal, proof of concept delivery and RFPresponses.• Became the lead SAP BI Sales Specialist for 360View BI Administration tool and BI Command Center SAP BI Auditing tool.• Provided product implementation and sales support for healthcare analytic solutions.• Expanded my SAP Business Objects product expertise to include Business Objects Explorer Accelerated in-memory data access technology as well as non-SAP products including Qlikview.• Interviewed and recommended all the current SAP Business Objects Off-Shore Support team members.• In addition to sales support I delivered implementation services and training.

Responsible for all aspects of the sales cycle related to large-scale business intelligence license and services sales including implementations. My responsibilities include identifying requirements, technical presentations, competitive positioning, integration architecture, hardware sizing, web deployment solutions, the preliminary services investigation, pricing assistance and RFP responses.

Responsible for all aspects of the sales cycle related to large-scale business intelligence license and services sales including implementations. My responsibilities include identifying requirements, technical presentations, competitive positioning, integration architecture, hardware sizing, web deployment solutions, the preliminary services investigation, pricing assistance and RFP responses.

Responsible for all aspects of sales opportunities related to large scale, real-time billing applications. My tasks included developing demonstrations, identifying requirements, technical and sales presentations, neutralizing competition, creating solution architecture, sizing hardware, identifying related software, preliminary implementation design, pricing configuration and coordination of RFP response team

Responsible for technical qualification of sales opportunities including presentations, demonstrations, benchmarks, RFP responses, customer support, account management, and managing post sales issues. Product specialization includes all server based products: Sybase’s ASE database, Replication Server, ASIQ Decision Support Server and ASA Small Footprint Database.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer And Information Sciences, General

Associate Of Arts (Aa), General Studies