SUMMARY:

Senior Pre - sales IT Professional who has led complex Enterprise solution sales engagements at accounts including Bloomberg, HBO, Cablevision, Verizon, NBC, Dow Jones, Viacom, Time Warner Cable, Citibank, HSBC, Credit Suisse, New York Health and Hospitals Corporation and a number of New York City government agencies. Utilize consultative sales approach with customers to understand their IT needs and make recommendations to solve their business and technical requirements. Lead multi-pillar technical teams and work with customer personnel in design and deployment of solutions, requiring a comprehensive understanding of multiple technologies. Excellent presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Confidential Power Servers, Cisco UCS Blade and Rack Servers, Confidential Flash Storage, VBlock Technology, Intel X86 Processor family, Sun Sparc, Sun StorageTek and Hitachi Storage

Software/Operating Systems: PowerVM, PowerVC Cloud Software, VMWare ESX, Sun Ray VDI, Sun Management Center, Jumpstart, Unix Shell Scripting, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, HTML, Linux (Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu, Confidential Enterprise), AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, MacOS X, MS Windows

Technical Competencies: TCP-IP Networking, NFS, NIS, DNS, HTTP, Apache, 3-Tier Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Unix Performance Monitoring and Capacity Planning and use of Social Media, Big Data, Hadoop, Cloud, OpenStack

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Technical Sales Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Lead pre-sales campaigns for Power systems at major banks, communications companies and government institutions.
• Coordinate all Confidential technical resources necessary to meet customer's requirements and close the business.
• Work with ISVs to port applications to Linux on Power systems. Run POCs and testing of Linux on Power for ISVs.
• Perform competitive analysis and application migration assessments for customers looking to consolidate servers from third party software and hardware vendors.
• Mentor Students at P-Tech, Confidential /CUNY/DOE High School specializing in Computer Science and mentioned by The Confidential in the State of the Union Speech in 2013.
• Wrote and delivered a class on “The History of the Internet”.

Confidential, New York, NY

Consulting System s Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led the technical sale of Confidential and EMCs VBlock which consists of X86 Blades with enhanced storage and virtualization capabilities.
• Support Cloud deployment efforts at several customers.
• Work with major media clients including Viacom, NBC, HBO, Dow Jones, ESPN, Turner and CNN.
• Required in-depth understanding of compute infrastructure, understanding of competitive architectures (Dell, HP, Confidential ).

Confidential, New York, NY

Principal Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Confidential Enterprise Linux (OEL) and Confidential Virtual Machine (OVM) technical sales to Confidential customers throughout the NY/NJ area.
• Evangelize the benefits of OEL/OVM as well as internal Confidential /Sun employees, required in-depth knowledge of linux and virtualization technologies.

Confidential, New York, NY

Professional Services Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on Engineer specializing in Sun Ray Desktop Virtualization (VDI) with VMWare ESX.
• Install Sun Ray Software including MySQL Cluster to serve VMWare Virtual Machines running Windows XP through Dynamic Pooling, thus reducing Total Cost of Ownership of Windows substantially.

Confidential, New York, NY

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architected the HBO HD Broadcast back-end infrastructure solution and led the hands-on testing team that implemented the Sun SF6900 Servers and Hitachi 9990 Storage hardware systems.
• Designed and installed proof of concept for Sun Ray virtualization technology using Sun T2000's, Sun Ray software, hardware and HP DL380 running VMWare ESX serving Suse Linux and Windows XP desktops at Cablevision
• Supported Time Warner Cable in the upgrade and migration to Windows based technologies for entire Sun Ray infrastructure of 3000 virtualized users
• Conducted hands-on benchmark of Hitachi Sun StorageTek 6140 Arrays, SL8500 Tape Archive with Sun M8000 Servers for HBO Digital Asset Management archive system which resulted in major sale and publicity for Sun
• Analyzed system performance data, including I/O and CPU statistics for many different types of applications including Confidential Databases and Storage to recommend the appropriate Sun solution

Solutions Architect/Technical Specialist

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead on relocation of mission critical banking data center of 160 Sun systems. Worked at the remote site to assure continuity in bringing up new systems including migration to ZFS
• Advised major NY newspaper on methodologies for data center moves using Sun Explorer output
• Led beta evaluation of new Sun hardware (M4000) at major investment bank. Ran weekly calls with customer and internal Sun personnel to solve outstanding technical issues
• Provided technical guidance and advice on deployment of Solaris 10 at major investment bank. Act as liaison with Sun Kernel Engineering to solve problems and enhance features

Confidential

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Test and document installation and functionality of SunFire 15Ks using Sun Cluster 3.1 and related networks
• Make recommendations on Security best practices and help with implementation of JASS (Jumpstart Architecture Secure Solaris
• Educate customers and internal Sun personnel on use, installation and troubleshooting of JET (Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit) requiring extensive knowledge of Jumpstart process and network related issues
• Design and deploy Sun Management Center infrastructure
• Evaluate functionality and security issues of SunFire 6800's and write white papers for Unix Engineering group to distribute
• Troubleshoot and make recommendations on Proxy Server Architecture to improve performance and throughput for major banking institution

Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technology Evangelist positioning Sun's .COM strategies and technologies at all level's of the organization starting with the CIO.
• Required knowledge of all Sun hardware and software products, as well as an awareness of appropriate partner technologies

Senior Systems Administration Instructor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• management and creation of filesystems, backup using usfdump, cpio and tar, how the system boots, how to change run levels and configuration of NFS for Solaris. Class was final pre-requisite for becoming Certified Solaris 2.5.1 Administrator management of HP, AIX and SCO systems with emphasis on how to integrate them with Solaris.