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Bluffton, South Carolina

The Principle Consultant role demands daily interaction with large scale enterprises at senior levels, as well as with technical staff within the traditional IT organization. Routinely engage directly with newly signed customers to implement Proofpoint solutions at their sites. Sound technical experience and skills, blended with strong interpersonal and communication skills are required. Principle Consultants must take responsibility and accept accountability for successful customer engagements and partner technical relationships.Core Responsibilities include:-Provide technical expertise and real-life experience in creating solutions, designs, proof of concept and implementation. -Drive high levels of customer satisfaction. -Be a strong voice for customers into the Marketing and Engineering teams to improve the product and ensure that Proofpoint deployments successful. -Coordinate with multiple parties--internal departments as well as the customer--to ensure timely and satisfactory resolution to technical issues, and completion of projects.

The VMware Zimbra Partner Sales Engineer is a senior role that works very closely with VMware Zimbra Business Development Managers and Sales Team to manage, develop and support VMware’s strategic partners. Major responsibilities include establishing solid working relationships with partners across multiple levels, functions and regions. Facilitate workshops to consult on VMware Zimbra technology and solutions, exploring areas of joint opportunity, developing joint solutions and taking them to market. Develop and execute technical enablement planning and activities for VMware Zimbra Partners. Present VMware Zimbra strategy, solutions and technical overviews to partners, as well as at partner seminars and industry trade shows.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Effective delivery of Sendmail’s value proposition to prospects via technical presentations, product demonstrations in written or verbal communications. Responded to prospects’ technical needs and objections in a timely manner. Managed service delivery, including all technical tasks such as requirements gathering, messaging infrastructure design, pre-installation preparation, product installation and configuration. Designed software solutions for sales prospects using real world messaging and security best practice experience. Configured Sendmail products and help accounts with on-site architectural reviews and network planning and design sessions for Sendmail customers. Prepared and facilitated accurate scoping of statements-of-work for service engagements. Communicated product feedback to Product Marketing.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Provided engineering related services including research, design, architecture, testing and integration of Wachovia’s core messaging infrastructure components. Primary focus of engineering activities was dedicated to Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and x.500/LDAP directory technology. Served as the lead engineer on a project that integrated a comprehensive policy-based SMTP mail routing solution. The resultant solution allowed Wachovia to enforce a wide variety of e-mail usage policies and address Securities and Exchange Commission mandates with regard to their outsourced employees.