Senior Solutions Architect and Vendor Relationship Lead Resume Houston, TX - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Multifaceted technical career with extensive technical, consulting and management experience
Information security and data center specialist seeking to leverage 20+ years of leadership, systems analysis, and network support and team management experience to benefit others by innovating, consulting and implementing Cisco solutions.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Houston, TX

Senior Solutions Architect and Vendor Relationship Lead

Responsibilities:

Working for a worldwide value added reseller as a Senior Solutions Architect allows me to develop Data Center, Wireless, Collaboration and Security solutions for customers while engaging in existing relationships or developing new ones due to RFI or RFP responses.
Over $3M in sales in the first quarter of my engagement with Confidential allowed me to become the lead in vendor relationship management (primarily Cisco). Mapping out new technologies with sales strategies and educating our sales and technical teams. I support a team of technical resources before going to customers with solutions.
I showcase many technologies while becoming an expert in Software Defined Networking, Software Defined Access ( SDN and SDA), ACI with Ansible, Openstack, Hyperflex, UCS Director, CiscoONE strategies, Thalos, SourceFire, Firepower, Fortinet and other security products. I am also a SME in UCS automation and mentor several on Cisco NX-OS and IOS.

Confidential - San Jose CA

Solutions Integrations Architect

Responsibilities:

Focus on translating business challenges into cisco services based solutions to grow our partnership with web tier customers.
Principal customers are Paypal, Ebay, GoDaddy, AirBnB, Uber and SalesForce.
My assignment as Solutions architect is a hybrid position that has sales objectives while being considered a trusted advisor by my customers.
I have to provide leadership to the network consulting engineers and delivery managers who will execute sold services with the overall architectural vision while working on a daily basis with the account team for each account to align our sales strategies. being one step ahead of the web “speed” customer has always been a strong suit and the accounts i was assigned went from stale mode to growth with high customer satisfaction levels. Most everyone that is a technical manager for my customers to have great relationships with me as this is a goal of the position.
I was also responsible to interface with many business development manager to develop offerings customized to my customer needs with fiscal projections that were acceptable.
I was elected to be responsible for overall join business reviews and present to upper level management different goals and views to ensure a good partnership health.

Confidential - San Jose CA

Network Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

Provide assistance to Cisco enterprise customers in the data center space with expertise in the nexus line of products, UCS, security, ACI and load balancing. my role is to analyze issues at hand and future needs and provide assistance with high / low level designs, implementation planning, software strategies and documentation.
Provided liaison and technical assistance to customers with active TAC cases to provide fast resolution with a holistic engineering approach as well as work with the different business units within cisco to provide first line expertise.