Shawn Madden Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Berkeley, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

* Lead the Solutions Engineering team in the Northern CA and Pacific NW regions.* Responsible for recruiting and building out of the region* Drive sales strategy and growth and provide thought leadership for new and existing enterprise and strategic customers.* Created and drive global Subject Matter Expert Initiative to provide product expertise across the SE org in all regions.

New York, Ny, Us

* Drove all pre-sales technical engagements with customers from initial meeting through close of business including responding to RFPs / RFIs, scoping and driving PoVs, and providing technical consulting* Responsible for complete architecture and implementation of on-premises and cloud observability solutions across the entire product stack, including understanding the competitive landscape.* Evangelized the product through public webinars & workshops, conferences, blog posts, meetups* Created internal / external technical enablement content including white papers, implementation guides, demo videos* Global Solutions Engineer of the Year FY23 (contributed to $4M of business closed)

Armonk, New York, Us

* Drove all technical pre-sales engagements with customers from initial meeting through close of business including responding to RFPs / RFIs, scoping and driving PoCs, and providing technical consulting* Responsible for complete architecture and implementation in on-premises and cloud environments like VMWare, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure * Evangelized the product through conferences, blog posts, meetups* Created internal / external technical content including white papers, implementation guides, demo videos

Sunnyvale, California, Us

* Architected and implemented on-premises and hybrid cloud solutions based on customers' use-cases like DBaaS, LBaaS, Kubernetes, Map Reduce and AWS services* Technical lead for all pre-sales efforts including RFPs/RFIs, PoVs, SOWs, and training* Attended meetups and conferences as a technical evangelist and presenter

London, England, Gb

* Launched the “Autopilot” OpenStack cloud deployment tool based on a hyper-converged architecture with 80+ installs.* Responsible for complete product lifecycle including Go-to-market strategy, product messaging, pricing, sales enablement, online demand generation, and press / analyst interviews.* Created a customer onboarding program that tripled user retention rates in 10 months.* Developed all internal and external technical documentation and training materials.* Built partnerships with several large networking and storage vendors to integrate their solutions into the OpenStack distribution

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Launched the world’s first OpenStack private cloud distro based on a distributed, hyper-converged architecture.* Grew revenue from zero to $3M in two years gaining 50+ paying customers.* Traveled internationally to promote and present our OpenStack solution to customers and at conferences.* Engaged with 50+ customers in pre-sales activities to define cloud architectures, specify servers, and run POCs.* Created all customer-facing technical collateral including reference architectures, datasheets, demos, and webinars.* 90% success rate from completing RFQ/RFI to closing deals.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

* Drove the planning and execution of complex deployments for NVIDIA products in Apple's notebook and iMac products.* Worked directly with NVIDIA and Apple senior management and technical leaders to resolve numerous issues including silicon deliveries, system design requirements, specifications, bug resolution, silicon testing, and qualification. * Successfully launched all products on-time within very aggressive schedules

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

* Responsible for all NVIDIA technical pre- and post- sales activities for HP’s Workstation Global Business Unit.* Delivered product demos, training, and technical presentations to HP and their customers* Responded to all RFIs and RFQs.

Richmond, Ca, Us

*Pursued a lifelong dream of becoming a firefighter. Responded to all types of emergencies to assist the citizens of Richmond.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

* Designed transmitters for laptop display technologies including HDMI and LVDS* Designed multiple phase locked loops to drive internal chip clocks.* Wrote datasheets and trained field teams.