Eric Kennedy Email & Phone Number

I am a Technical Sales/Solutions Engineer, and also part of the Operations Team managing our AWS stack. I am comfortable engaging with both C-level Executives and IT Professionals detailing in depth product overviews covering; security, cryptography, infrastructure architecture, as well as public, private, and hybrid cloud storage requirements. Discussions often include secure user authentication systems leveraging existing customer AD/LDAP or third party two factor authentication systems such as RSA.Aside from technical consulting I architect, build, and deploy customer specific Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud Solutions incorporating various Storage Endpoints including: AWS S3 and compatible services, Nirvanix/IBM, EMC Atmos/VNX/Isilon, OOS, CIFS, NFS, NAS/SAN, as well as AD/LDAP authentication systems.Post sales support includes migrating from PoC to Production, live/in-place updates, additional global deployments, administrator training, and product/software maintenance for partners and customers including: Cisco, EMC, Intel, Eli Lilly, ING Direct, Banorte, AFG, Nissho Electronics, and others.I work closely with customers, product management, and am part of the engineering team working to ensure complete functionality and innovate new features and have a natural, easy going manner which allows me to convey highly complex operations in an easy to understand format.• Linux, OSX, XP-Pro, Vista, Win 7/8, Win Server 03-2012• VMWare ESX, ESX(i), vSphere, Hyper-V, Xen• Rackspace, AWS, EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, IAM, EBS, ELB• Apache, Nginx, Squid, HAProxy, Load Balancing, High Availability, Scalability, Disaster Recovery• TCP/IP, DNS/BIND, HTTP(S), SSL/TLS, VPN• SAN/NAS, CIFS, NFS, SMB, OOS• AD/LDAP(S), RSA, Two Factor authentication• HTML/CSS/PERL/Python• Zendesk/UserVoice/SalesForce/JIRA/Pivotal/Wiki/• Awesome problem solving ability and analytical thinking• Excellent interpersonal skills and customer advocate• Fluid written and verbal communication

Listed skills include Linux, Cloud Computing, Storage, Windows Server, and 46 others.

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