SUMMARY

• Private, Public, Hybrid Cloud / Virtualization, Data Center, SDN, NFV, Pre - Sales Solution architecture.
• Worked at 3 leading cloud service providers: IBM / Confidential, Confidential and Hewlett Packard.
• Service Provider Network IP / MPLS data / voice VOIP / SIP IMS 4G LTE, IP solutions architecture.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Sales Engineering / Solutions Architecture
• Cloud, Data Center vmware (strategic partner level)
• NSX, SDN / NFV
• Citrix Xen, Openstack, 4 G LTE / EPC
• IMS. Confidential
• Terremark and HPE Cloud education training cert
• IBM Global Sales School cert
• Customer facing presentations and collaterals development for C-level and technical
• Product Demos
• RFI / RFP response
• Quotes / SOW
• High Level design / solution development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Pre-Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect

Confidential, Dallas Tx

Responsibilities:

• Cloud Solutions Architect - Onsite PepsiCo - Driving and defining cloud foundation / transformation initiatives. Multicloud solution design and deployment
• IBM Confidential, Microsoft Azure, Pivitol etc. with global network connectivity via equinix cloud exchange. SDDC / SDN data center re-design with Arista switched infrastructure cloud vision, vmware NSX.

Solutions Architect

Confidential - Dallas Tx

Responsibilities:

• Solutions Architect (Pre Sales) - Cloud First. HP Enterprise Group sells a converged infrastructure portfolio of standards-based, integrated products & services developed.
• Pre-sales solutions architecture in the pursuit, closure and successful delivery of HPE and integration of 3rd party solutions and services.
• Cloud First focuses on Private / Public Hybrid Cloud / Virtualization solutions development (vmware, openstack, citrix etc), network solutions, and professional services for
• SDN, NFV, vmware NSX, Openstack (Helion), Distributed Cloud Network (Nuage Networks) virtual and container, Network Security (Fortinet), IOT, Mobility (Aruba) etc.
• Responsibilities included pre-sales business and technical discussions with clients, solutions architecture development, provide customer product and services presentations, configuring and pricing solutions, sow, (RFP) / (RFI) responses etc.

Confidential - Dallas Tx

Responsibilities:

• Solutions Architect (Pre Sales) - Territory Development Pre Sales engineering technical solution development, sales presentations, RFI / RFP etc. for TOLA customers.
• Service offerings: Cloud / Virtualization Services (Nutanix), Managed Networks, Network Design / Engineering, Systems Integration, and Professional Services for Voice / Data, UC, Data Center, Managed Hosting, Security, Wireless and Mobility

Confidential, Dallas Tx

Responsibilities:

• Solutions Architect (Pre Sales) - Cloud Services Group Provide Confidential / IBM Cloud Services clients with technical solutioning Pre-Sales on Confidential Private, Public and hybrid Cloud offerings
• Cloud Compute Instance, Bare Metal, Managed hosting, High Performance Cloud Storage (NetApp), Object Storage Open stack / Swift, Cloudera / Hadoop, Strategic Outsourcing Services, Security etc. NFV firewall, load balancers
• Pre-sales discussions with clients Provide customer presentations / demos, configuring and pricing solutions, Request for Proposal (RFP)/Request For Information (RFI) responses, Initial Onboarding etc.
• Client applications include: Service Provider Resellers, Large Enterprise Customers Cloud migration, Strategic outsourcing, e-Commerce, Big Data Analytics, HPC etc. VMware strategic partner solutions provider.

Solutions Architect

Confidential, Dallas Tx

Responsibilities:

• Solutions Architect (Pre Sales) ITS Cloud - Pre Sales engineering / solutions development for Confidential ITS cloud group. Service offerings in colocation, managed hosting
• Enterprise cloud (built on vmware and Cisco UCS), private cloud, Cloud Storage, Dedicated SAN (NetApp and EMC), security, professional services, managed network services (Cisco), content delivery (Akamai) managed network services, and professional services.
• Account activities include (multi-group / offerings) solutions development, quotes, so / sow, RFP / RFI response, custom engineering, customer presentations and demos.
• Custom engineered colo solutions VAR with Cisco, HP, EMC, Net App, vmware, etc. Vmware and Cisco strategic partner and solutions provider.

Network - Cloud / Virtualization Engineer

Confidential, Dallas Tx

Responsibilities:

• Network - Cloud / Virtualization Engineer - ITTE design & deployment Datacenter / private cloud with vmware ESXi cluster, Citrix XenApp, MS 2008 R2, SUSE Linux, Solaris, RHEL, Juniper Firewalls, etc. Sprint Vision project 4G LTE IOT Lab
• SAE evolved packet core: CPG, MME, RBS, IPworks, SE 1200 edge routers, OSS RC etc. with HP Blade center, EMC Clarion, Dell, HW. AT&T USP IMS project. Sales lab demos & presentations. Mobile cloud program etc.

Program Mgr. / Network Architect

Confidential, Dallas Tx

Responsibilities:

• Program Mgr. / Network Architect - NGN Broadband Core. CTO as prime for NGN CORE technologies (VoIP / IMS, (Nortel NGN IMS Platform)) WiMAX, etc.
• Provided Pre and Post Sales customer engagement, executive presentations, SME to multiple sales groups. CTO Prime for IBM partnership blade center NGN OEM telecom virtualization, applications development. Managed off shore development team.