J Powell Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, IN, US

United States

• Focused on strategic selling around VMware by Broadcom Data Center portfolio: Cloud Foundation with a focus on vSAN and Private AI
• Hands on experience with PyTorch, Jupyter notebooks, NVIDIA TensorRT, and Docker containers.
• Work with various Neural Networks and multimodal models for creating proof of concepts around Deep Machine Learning, image recognition, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG)

Palo Alto, California, United States

• Technical Executive focusing on VMware strategic direction: Multi Cloud (Cloud Foundation) Modern Applications (Tanzu), Cloud Management (Aria Suite), Security (NSX), Digital Experience Management (Horizon VDI), and.
• Top presenter at Executive & Technical Briefings, driving business outcomes & creating business development strategies.
• Grow business by forging strategic partnerships with customers by understanding their objectives, KPIs, and multi-year technology roadmaps.
• Provides technical demos of VMware Cloud Foundation, vSAN, NVIDIA Private AI, Aria Automation to emphasis the solution stack, not the individual components.
• Mentor and train field sales teams around solution selling and AI
• Provide executive sponsorship to customers ensuring VMware solutions meet customer business goals.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Focused on strategic selling and enablement, collaboration between Dell and VMware sellers, covering all sales segments.
• Specialist with a focus on VMware Cloud Foundation, VxRail, & PowerFlex
• Responsibilities include Executive & Technical Briefings, driving business outcomes with segments of Dell Technologies largest customers.
• Guide technical decisions in ML and AI with telemetry data to increase NPS
• Collaborate with Technical Marketing and Competitive teams to provide content for the field sellers.
• Facilitate enablement sessions, product roadmaps and demos for Global Partners

• Focused on recruiting, retaining, and developing a top specialty SE organization chartered with solving complex customer challenges.
• Drive trust and transparency within the organization, as well as our customers.

• Focused on closing hyper converged and software-defined storage business that was highly competitive and challenging.
• Encouraged sales teams to provide strategic and detailed proposals to illustrate solution-based selling.
• Ranked as one of the top requested speakers at customer Executive Briefings, based on NPS.

• 2016 - 2017: Senior Presales Systems Engineer, VxRail (Central US).
• Divisional area specialist focused on delivering enablement and deep levelexpertise to internal sellers and strategic customers
• Focused on Commercial and Enterprise segments to provide outcome-based product sales.

Carmel, IN

• Collaborate and lead global IT projects including design, documentation and presentations to senior leadership team members.
• Influence purchase decisions around Cloud, virtualization, and storage initiatives
• Proof of Concept projects include VMware vRealize Automation 6.2 and Operations Manager
• Daily responsibilities involve VMware ESXi, vCenter, vROps, Lync, Exchange, SCCM and SCOM troubleshooting and support, and Windows Systems Administration.
• Built customized Deployment server using Windows 2012 R2, Windows Deployment Services, and MDT 2013 to rapidly deploy bare-metal and virtual servers.
• Deployed Splunk software for deep level log analysis of RCI’s B2C and SOA servers

• Daily responsibilities involve VMware ESXi, View, and vCenter troubleshooting and support, Windows Systems Administration, assisting in the creation of Statements of Work for client projects, and managing Sarcom Field.
• Serve as pre-sales engineer on projects involving Data Domain, Netbackup, HP blades and VMware products targeting sophisticated data center environments.
• Built customized Deployment server using Windows 2008 R2, Windows Deployment Services, and MDT 2012 to rapidly deploy bare-metal servers, desktops, and virtual machines for 700 machine environment.
• Responsible for Landscape management documentation including diagramming server layouts, P2V conversions with VMware, VMware ESXi server installation and configuration.
• Configure and maintain Kickstart scripts to deploy standardized VMware ESXi installations
• Deployed VMware View 4.6 Proof of Concept environment for overseas clients.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Daily responsibilities include creating, testing, and deploying software packages with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, managing Symantec Endpoint servers, maintain Active Directory containers and users.
• Collaborated with Database Administrators to deploy Oracle 11gR2 client to desktops and servers.
• Responsible for ongoing technical documentation regarding desktop, server, and software configurations.
• Migrated 200 HP desktops and laptops from Windows XP to Windows 7 Enterprise.
• Configure and maintain all software patches and updates from Microsoft and 3rd Parties with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3.
• Create and maintain standardized Windows 7, 2008 R2, and Red Hat images for deploying new servers and desktops.

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