Gary Freeman, Cissp Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, On, Ca

Currently, I am responsible for leading OpenText's Pre-Sales Solution Consulting team that supports the Cybersecurity, Application Delivery Management (ADM), and IT Operations Management (ITOM) solution portfolios in Canada.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

We are on a mission is to elevate the role of PreSales in organizations worldwide. We aim to provide PreSales professionals with the resources, knowledge, network, and mentorship to develop long, impactful careers.​Our vision is to create a global community of diverse professionals who have a passion for PreSales. A place where individuals in a PreSales role, or anyone who aspires to be, will be supported in their professional development.

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

As a Micro Focus Cyber Resilience executive, I am responsible for leading the North American strategy for the Cybersecurity Presales team, including Security Operations (ArcSight), Application Security (Fortify), Data Protection & Privacy (Voltage/SCM) and Identity & Access Management (NetIQ). My leadership team creates a cohesive framework of best-practices, expertise, strategies and operational guidance for the Micro Focus Presales organization and our interaction with sales teams and customers. We develop, communicate and measure a consistent set of tools used throughout the organization and represent the interests of presales across the company to help drive the agenda of product Go-To-Market and overall success of positioning the value of our products.

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

The Micro Focus Practice Management team creates a cohesive framework of best-practices, expertise, strategies and operational guidance for the Micro Focus Presales organization. We develop, communicate and measure a consistent set of tools used throughout the organization and represent the interests of presales across the company to help drive the agenda of product direction, marketing activities and overall success of our products.

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

Leading the Data Security (Voltage / Atalla) Sales Engineering team for Canada, USA and Latin AmericaResponsibilities include:• Develop a presales coverage model supporting the needs of sales, marketing and product management organizations• Develop and execute a presales go-to-market strategy for new or improved solutions• Build strong relationships with sales leadership peers to coordinate resources for achieving each region’s sales goals• Build and maintain a high performance team capable of engaging customers / prospects and understanding their needs in efforts to build the right solution• Encourage the team to identify whitespace opportunities, cross-train SEs in other BUs and help drive innovation• Engage with customers and partners to assist them in getting continued value out of our solutions

Houston, Texas, Us

HPE Security is a leading provider of security and compliance solutions for modern enterprises that want to mitigate risk in their hybrid environments and defend against advanced threats. HPE Security provides complete enterprise protection with 4 main solutions: Security Information Event Management (SIEM - ArcSight), Application Security (Fortify), Data Security & Encryption (Atalla / SecureData) and HPE Security Research. Please visit http://www.hpenterprisesecurity.com for more details.---Led a team of highly motivated & talented Pre-Sales Solution Architects across all regions of Canada. Assisted team back-line in delivering demos, presentations and POCs for all pillars of HPE Security and provided pre- and post- sales support for customers.Highlights:- Assisted Sales with SE leadership to exceed targets by 130% of $24 million quota in FY13- Awarded "Best Team Leadership World-Wide" award in FY15- Awarded "SE Manager of the Quarter" in FY16-Q2

Houston, Texas, Us

In this role I was responsible for supporting the Sales Engineers globally and work with a team that develops the demonstrations, technical documentation and trial evaluations of all of ArcSight's software and appliance components.Highlights:- Ranked as #1 for 2011 "Revenue by SE" at $8.7 million- Rewarded with "President's Club" in 2011 for assisting multiple regions exceed their quotaDuties Included:- Development of demo and presentation material for custom use cases and verticals- Maintained RFP and Proposal Knowledge base- Assisted in developing and presenting at worldwide user conference (Protect 2010 and 2011)- Provided back-line support to field SEs during trials and customer engagements

Houston, Texas, Us

I was responsible for supporting the Canadian Sales team and provided support for trials, demos, technical documentation and architecture of all of ArcSight's software and appliance components.Highlights:- Assigned as primary SE on over $25 million USD worth of business over three years- Consistently ranked amongst the "Top 10 SEs by Revenue"- Rewarded with "President's Club" in 2009 for assisting Canada in exceeding quotaOther duties include:- RFI/RFP response preparation and management- Solution architecture & sizing- Creation of collateral templates- Management of knowledgebase and proposal generator- New hire training and mentoring- Technical writing- Use case and custom dashboard design

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

* Design, deployment and documentation of the entire MS PKI environment and installation and administration of the SafeNet (LUNA) HSM.* Responsible for creating and enforcing policies and standards for all network-based hardware on the corporate WAN, VPN and Internet edge.* Assisted in the design and implementation of both Snort and McAfee Intrusion Prevention sensors and management consoles.* Development and implementation of a logging strategy to report events based on input from various security devices.* Developed and tested wireless networking security standards and assisted in developing procedures for the implementation of 802.1x, PEAP, MS-CHAPv2 and RADIUS to enforce access restrictions across all sites in Canada.* Penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, forensic investigations.* Developed, educated and maintained Incident Handling and Employee Investigation process and procedures in coordination with corporate security and legal.* Conducted multiple Information Security training sessions in a "lunch-and-learn" setting for many colleagues.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

* Provided project teams with network costing, design and implementation plans.* Developed strategy to audit and harden all network related equipment.* Planned and implemented various large network security initiatives including DMZ infrastructures, Firewalls, VPN, rate-limiting, SSL Proxies (to name a few).

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

* Provided 7/24 oncall support for more 300 Network devices including Cisco routers/switches, CPFW-1 and PIX firewalls, Alteon and Cisco Content Load-Balancers, DSU/CSUs, DHCP/WINS and DNS.* Assisted architects with all implementations.* Administered Check Point and PIX firewalls.* Administered BIND DNS* Administered MS DHCP/WINS

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

* Developed and administered multiple Rogers owned corporate Internet and Intranet web sites using Wordpress, Drupal, HTML + CSS, ASP, PHP, Apache, iPlanet, Javascript, Java, C++, PERL and various shell scripts and commercial search engines.

Worked part time assisting owner in implementations, planning, assessments and customer support of security solutions. Received training internally for conducting Forensic Investigations.

* Migrated a 100 node LAN from Win3.1/DecNet to Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.1 running TCP/IP* Converted BNC BUS toplogy to Cat5 Hub-and-spoke and replaced repeaters with 100Mb switches.* Provided desktop and field support to all inter-office and field geophysicists.* Provisioned VAX, PC and Plotter equipment to be sent out with all of the aircraft crews for magnitrometer data aquisition.* Created company's Internet Website.

Provided isometric and orthographic assembly drawings for wheelchairs and 4-wheel power bases, both manually and using AutoCAD to support non-English speaking assembly line workers.Highlights:- Won executive recognition for designing "foam-less" packaging using only cardboard, which in turn saved the company more than $50,000 from shipping damages

This was a pilot entrepreneur venture that had no seed funding but I was able to sustain for 4+ years. The concept was a children's coloring book focused on child safety and used local business advertising sales to cover the cost of staffing (2 employees), printing and distribution to 32,000 homes in select demographics as an insert to the local newspaper in two cities. I eventually abandoned the idea when it was no longer generating revenue and I needed a full time job to cover printing costs.

Diploma, Pc Support And Lan Administration

Certificate, Cissp Bootcamp

Leadership Curriculum, The Experienced Manager

Organizational Leadership

Incident Handling & Hacking (Ghic)

Cisco Architecture (Arch)

Certificate, Arcsight Certified Security Analyst

Multiple Week-Long Cisco Networking Courses (Dcn, Cpix, Cvpn, Acrc, Icrc, Cit)

Checkpoint Firewall-1 Administration

Autocad For Engineers

Certificate, Prepress/Desktop Publishing And Digital Imaging Design

Certificate, Business Studies