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Houston, Texas, Us

I presently cultivate key technical and targeted customer relationships to provide value proposition for platform adoption solutions with related technical features and capabilities that enable targeted business outcomes.I also: • Support Nimble Storage Predictive Cloud Platform sales strategies from first contact to post-sale enablement and marketing. • Standardize processes and communications enabling scale beyond direct involvement.I provide presales technical support of all aspects of sales of the HPE Storage portfolio, including Nimble, 3PAR, Simplivity and storage networking. Covering commercial customers and key partners, I develop relationships with key technical and business contacts, and learn their needs and priorities in order to ascertain the value HPE and HPE Direct Partners' solutions can deliver to them. I correlate technical features and capabilities of these solutions to business value thru increased availability, predictability and agility. I also work with reseller partners to ensure that they have the knowledge they need in order to do the same, enabling our business to scale beyond my direct involvement in opportunities.

Houston, Texas, Us

Presales technical support of all aspects of sales of the Nimble Storage Predictive Cloud Platform, from direct engagement with commercial customers to partner enablement and marketing activities. I develop relationships with key technical and business contacts within targeted customer organizations and deliver the value proposition for adoption of Nimble’s platform, correlating technical features and capabilities to increased availability, predictability and business value. I also work with partners to ensure that they have the knowledge they need in order to deliver that same message, enabling our business to scale beyond my direct involvement in opportunities.Nimble Storage was acquired by HPE in April 2017

San Jose, Ca, Us

Within Cisco, I had:• Designed and educated clients in Datacenter and Hybrid Cloud solutions encompassing Unified Computing System, Nexus Unified Fabric, and MDS multi-layer SAN fabrics needs. • Collaborated closely with customer’s server, network, storage, and facilities teams to clarify benefits and advantages of datacenter solutions in green field and legacy datacenters.

Houston, Texas, Us

As the Senior Infrastructure Architect, I defined optimal transfer of knowledge through hands-on integration and testing datacenter solutions to strengthen customer’s cross-functional and management teams.For the ES&A Team, I:• Partnered closely with Fortune 500, federal, and SLED accounts to define requirements used to develop complex solution and proof of concept designs.• Supported HP converged infrastructure architecture to serve customer's functionality between existing systems and management and provisioning tools, datacenter networks, fabrics, and facilities resources.I had begun my career with the company as the Solutions Architect and from 2002 to 2009, I managed technical accounts for customers with HP industry standard server division products, and tier 1 and tier 2 storage systems. I had also:• Instructed clients in understanding and fully utilizing product roadmaps, recommended platforms, and facilitated integration with existing infrastructure and operational procedures.• Served as BladeSystem Ambassador to communicate business and technical advantages to internal and external clients.

Houston, Texas, Us

In this account focused role, I provided overall technical account management centered on, but not limited to, HP Industry Standard Server division (Proliant server) products, Storageworks tier1 and tier 2 storage systems, and support services solutions and services. I kept customers fully informed as to product roadmaps and vision, assisted customers with platform selection criteria, evaluation interoperability testing, and selection process. I often served as a focal point for complex custom service level definitions and services escalations based on customer specific needs, business drivers and internal organization and practices. In addition to my account specific responsibilities and quota delivery, I served as a Bladesystem Ambassador, evangelizing the vision and business and technical advantages of HP Bladesystem across internal and partner organizations and teams.

Harris County, Texas, Us

At Compaq, I augmented parter support efforts by addressing platform level customer satisfaction issues at enterprise customers. I provided identification and diagnosis of complex platform issues in system BIOS, device driver, operating system, networking, system electronics and human factors.

Following my Active duty service in the U.S. Air Force, I was a field service engineer for several companies. I provided installation, preventive and corrective services on computers and peripherals including IBM and NCR mini computers, high speed printers, tape drives, multi-function card readers, terminals and personal computers. Corrective and optimization services included review of logic diagrams and schematics, cable plans, and use of oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers and hand tools.