Presales role responsible for working with internal and external sales teams to plan, organize and design solutions for CDW's customers across the Mountain States region.

Storage consulting role focused on external customer's business objectives, strategy and goals.

Storage Solutions Architect supporting IBM Specialty Partner, Ciber.Received 'IBM Systems Storage Sales' and 'IBM Systems Storage Technical' certifications.

SAN configuration, administration and management for hundreds of customers of the Managed Storage Services division of IBM GDF.Current technical project lead for data migration of 1000+ servers for Disney Corp. from legacy storage to IBM XIV and EMC VMAX.SAN fabrics include Brocade, McData and Cisco with EFCM and Fabric Manager. IBM storage includes DS8000, DS4000, ESS, SVC, XIV and NSeries NAS. EMC products consist of Symmetrix, DMX , Clariion and Celerra NAS. HDS products include TagmaStore virtualization via HiCommand and Storage Navigator.Operating system analysis with AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows with applicable multi-path software.

Pre-Sales technical engineering support for promoting and presenting NetApp products and services for local customers. Emphasis on Fiber Channel storage, NAS, ISCSI, VTL, and De-Duplication architecturesAssigned pre-sales role of assisting in the technical sale and presentation of NetApp’s ‘Fabric Attached Storage’ (FAS) devices as well as their VTL offering to local customers. Technical Sales training emphasis on VTL and their data de-duplication architectures. Achieved ‘Accredited System Architect Program’ (ASAP) certification

December 2007 Promoted to Systems Engineer to assist marketing efforts in all pre-sale technical aspects for storage products that include opportunity investigation, architecture design, performance evaluation and service agreements. Primary account responsibility was at Qwest Communications main data centers that reside in Denver, Omaha and Columbus. Account coverage also included Qwest's Cyber Center offering that resides in ten major cities throughout the United States. Detailed planning includes understanding Qwest's business problems and how our storage product portfolio could address these in 'solutions based' sale. .Sun Microsystems acquired StorageTek in June of 2005. The following product list represents a sub-set of Sun StorageTek's storage product offering and area of concentration:Robotic Tape Libraries - 9310, SL8500, SL500, L700, L SeriesTape Drives - 9x40, LTO, SDLT, T10kVirtual Tape - VTL, VTL Plus, FalconStore VirtualizationFC Disk Subsystems - FLX240/280/380, LSI/6x40, HDS 9990/9990VSAN Switches - All Brocade (emphasis on 48000), McData, Cisco

Promoted to Systems Engineer to assist marketing efforts in all pre-sale technical aspects for storage products that include opportunity investigation, architecture design, performance evaluation and service agreements. Primary account responsibility was at Qwest Communications main data centers that reside in Denver, Omaha and Columbus. Account coverage also included Qwest’s Cyber Center offering that resides in ten major cities throughout the United States. Quota achievement realized each of the seven years as an SE.Secondary account coverage included Lockheed-Martin EIS division located across the USA. Detailed analysis of business problems and how our storage product portfolio could address these in ‘solutions based’ sale strategy, with emphasis on backup and recovery.