Michael Reading Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Responsible for worldwide sales engineering, professional services, and managed services at Cloudmark, the service provider division of Proofpoint.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Redwood City, Us

• Primary technical contact that lead to the sale of Openwave messaging and anti-abuse solutions into Tier 1 North American service providers such as Time Warner Cable, Charter, and Telus.• Primary point of contact for RFP responses, technical presentations, solution design, system sizing, product demonstrations, business case development, and customer trials.• Attained 170% quota achievement in 2006.• Awarded 2005 “Sales Engineer of the Year”.• Generated new sales materials and presentations. Developed technical white papers. Held customer workshops to educate customers on new technologies and trends. Maintained several product demonstration systems and customized demos for customer use.• Lead weekly SE information sharing meetings to encourage information exchange, education, and group problem solving among members of the SE team• Used deployment knowledge and experience to accurately scope professional services SOW’s.

• Lead the worldwide deployment of the company’s strategic integrated Computer Aided Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing software solution• Deployed an enterprise-wide data management solution that allowed engineering design data to be shared across 25 engineering and manufacturing sites in 5 countries• Developed software tools to facilitate secure electronic sharing of engineering design data between Visteon and it’s major customers• Lead a 4 person team that supported Unix workstations and servers for 800 CAD engineers in 13 locations across southeast Michigan• Worked with support providers (HP, SUN) to develop a comprehensive outsourced support solution for remote locations

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

• Worked on a cross-organizational team to develop a standardized Unix client operating system load and application serving infrastructure that was deployed to over 10,000 Unix workstations worldwide.• Procured, deployed and supported CAD/CAM software, workstations, and servers to support approximately 450 design engineers• Developed a client-server Oracle database application to support plant floor data collection and maintenance shift scheduling.• Developed a web server and document archive solution to support ISO 9000 certification efforts in local manufacturing plants.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

• Performed Computer-Aided structural analysis and simulations of mechanical components using Nastran, MARC, Patran, and I-DEAS finite element analysis (FEA) software. • Promoted the use of computer aided engineering design techniques by teaching finite element analysis classes to divisional product design engineers and by organizing monthly information exchange seminars.

Masters Of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Bs, Mechanical Engineering