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 Private AI▪ 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.▪ Drive VMware strategic direction and technology architecture with Private AI.▪ Architect customer future state roadmaps, technical enablement & product strategy.▪ Setting strategic technical sales direction for field teams in order to match customer needs with the appropriate solution set.

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• Engineer and architect for SCOM 2012 R2 which will monitor over 100 Domain Controllers deployed globally.

• 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 Technicians.• 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.• Deployed Lync 2013 Front End and Edge servers for 500 employee client.

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, create user Exchange and domain accounts, troubleshoot end-user and server related issues as they arise.• 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.• Configure and maintain Kickstart scripts to deploy standardized Red Hat Enterprise installations• Created two-way domain level trust with parent company on Windows 2003 servers.• Configured Edge Server to federate Office Communication Server 2007 R2 with parent company.• Deploy, Manage and maintain over 300 corporate servers in clustered, Hyper-V environments, and VMware environments on HP Proliant hardware.• Deployed and Configured Sharepoint and Project 2010 servers.• Configure, support, and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers for TIBCO Software.

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