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Rockwall, Tx, Us

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

In January of 2016, the Network Security Business from Intel Security, namely Stonesoft and Sidewinder Firewalls, were sold to Forcepoint. A portion of the individuals tied to the business transitioned with the solutions over to Forcepoint. There we stabilized, optimized, and built out our Sales Engineering team to execute across the Americas. As a specialist organization, the teams goal was to set the seed within the broader Forcepoint Sales Team, that Network Security is crucial to our customer base. As per plan, the majority of our Specialist teams have been mainstreamed into our Sales Organization to allow for more exponential impact.

San Jose, California, Us

At Intel Security (formerly McAfee Security), I currently manage a team of Network Security Architects across North America. We are focused on building integrated solutions for customers that solve security, design, and architecture challenges they face. Management activities include tracking sales opportunities, hiring new staff, career development for current staff, expense control, mitigating conflicts, filtering noise and distractions so that the team can focus, handling escalations, interfacing with Executive Management, Marketing, and the BU.As we operate as a Startup inside the larger organization I have additional daily roles beyond standard management functions. These include helping build & validate marketing programs, developing new GTM strategies, POC and evaluation programs, creating custom presentations and content, creating a Technical Advisors group to interface with the BU, building internal training and enablement programs, partner enablement programs, building internal sales campaigns, and more.When not working on all these other activities I truly enjoy presenting at Executive Briefings (EBC), Marketing Events, Trade Shows, Partners, and in front of customers. While I now have a Manager title I still love getting deep into technology solving customer challenges so you'll find me often meeting directly with prospects.

San Jose, California, Us

At Intel Security the Network Security Architect role is focused on our Network portfolio, with an emphasis on our Next Generation Firewall (NGFW). The NGFW solution is the newest addition to Intel Security portfolio and is one of the most exciting technologies we have. As a Network Security Architect, I worked with prospects, partners, and our core account teams on identifying challenges which can be addressed using our solutions. This process often involved presentations, white boarding sessions, product demonstrations, proof of concepts, and working with customers on deployment strategies.While the primary focus was on the Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas region, opportunities often required travel beyond the primary region. I was responsible for all prospects within the territory including various verticals such as Fortune 50, Commercial, Health Care, Government, Energy, and Education.

San Jose, Ca, Us

At Cisco my primary responsibility was to provide pre-sales architecture work for Cisco's security portfolio. As a CSE, I was the subject matter expert on integrating security into complex customer networks. My focus was on building solutions leveraging existing and new components to solve customers challenges. Activities include performing customer presentations & demonstrations, strategic architecture design sessions, training, partner enablement, and evangelizing all things security. I also worked with our product teams to communicate customer needs, market direction moves and other details which were used to help shape production futures.I covered all of Cisco's Security Portfolio which includes: Firewalls, Network IPS, Remote Access Solutions, Web & Email Security, Authentication, Identity Services, Network Access Control and Cloud Based Security Services.

San Jose, California, Us

While at McAfee I performed Pre-Sales and Post-Sales functions for two main client bases.The first was supporting McAfee's System Integrators community including companies like CACI, CSC, HP, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin among others. The majority of my time was spent working with the SI's to develop security solutions for their own internal consumption and turning technologies into consumable solutions for their clients. These solutions include Firewalls, Network & Host IPS, Vulnerability Management, Data Loss Prevention, Encryption, AV, AS, Policy Auditing, Remediation, Content Management among other technologies. Other activities included training individuals on the technologies, leading strategy sessions around creating new solution offerings, presenting at trade show events and even performing late night data center installations to assure project success.During my time at McAfee I spent countless hours traveling around the US and around the world, over 3 million miles during my tenure. This experience provided a perspective on how security professionals perform their jobs differently based on where they are, their culture and religious beliefs.The second area that I focused on while at McAfee was aiding in the creating of their Energy Vertical. A large amount of my time, prior to departing the company, was spent working with Energy provides in securing their corporate, distribution, transmission and generation networks. Other activities including evangelizing newer security techniques and approaches into SCADA environments, presenting at Energy Conferences, designing security solutions to fit specific customer needs and working to build a consortium of energy producers, component manufactures and servicers all interested in securing the grid.Also, while at McAfee I held Consulting and Territory Account Manager roles.

Worked with sales force on SOWs for custom consulting and development engagements. During tenor performed engagements with firms world-wide such as McAfee and upcoming companies like Hotels.com. These engagements consisted of security designs, pen testing, implementing vulnerability management programs, implementing encryption products and creating metrics for reporting security posture.

San Jose, California, Us

Consulting Project ManagerManaged all aspects of the consulting practice for portions of North America including the consultants, travel, expenses, customer relations, project bids and project planning. In addition developed career plans, training programs, compensation plans for consultants and maintained open communications with the sales force. Field ConsultantProvided consulting services for Fortune 500 companies world-wide regarding security design, processes, configuration and technologies. Also, provided implementation services and integration of various security products into their existing operations.

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I started at Cyrix as contract help desk staff but quickly transitioned to full time, moving into Server and Network Management roles. During my time as a network manager, we built and moved operations into a new Data Center, migrating from a flat Layer 2 network to Layer 2/Layer 3 network, and upgraded our entire global infrastructure to Cabletron MMAC moving away from commodity switches and Atlantic PowerHUB cores. I was also involved with deploying SPECTRUM network analyzer as well as Sniffer analyzers. As the Server manager I was responsible for deployment and management of server operating systems and the applications that were deployed on them. This included AIX, Sun, Windows, and other specialized operating systems. We hosted core services on these servers such as email, SAP, Oracle, MSSQL, Webservers, DNS, Directory Services (Banyan Vines/Windows), and VDI (Tektronix WinDD).My responsibilities included installation, day to day management, upgrades and migrations from platform to platform. As examples, moving from Banyan Vines Street Talk to Microsoft and cc:Mail to Lotus Notes.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I worked at IBM supporting their PS/2 model Desktops/Servers and ThinkPad laptops for their North Texas locations. All of which were running that all so popular OS/2 operating system we all run today. Oh wait... sorry. Additionally, I managed several OS/2 domains and the respective Token Ring networks.