Professional experience and career objectives: Accomplished Business Technology Advisor. Career achievements include revenue growth, market penetration, competitive positioning, and successful product launch. Areas include: High Performance Computing and High Availability Systems; Consulting and technical solutions UNIX/Linux servers, clusters, VoIP/SIP, Joomla! Control Panel, VMWare and SAN storage platforms. Past clients have included Life Sciences, Healthcare, Governmental, Not-for-Profit, and Academic organizations.
Skills and areas of expertise: Pre-sales Solutions Architecture Post-sales Tech Lead
• Expand and service assigned end user account bases, market new products and gain design win opportunities, while balancing the interests of the customer and the organization. Establish long-term business relationships with both customers and suppliers. • Networks, researches, and investigates
Former Employment
Technical Consultant
Hewlett Packard Company
(Manufacturing) - United States
• As the primary pre-sales technical interface with the customer,was responsible for recognizing the client's business needs, interpret them, and produce the solution design proposals • Performed solution architecture definition and sales strategy planning. Assumed technical leadership role.
• Primarily responsible for pre-sales support for Amdahl Federal's DOD Sales Team, bidding on various Federal RFPs • Provided client-site (and trade show) presentations on Amdahl's Open Systems Solutions • Topics covered include: Storage Solutions, Network Computers, UNIX & NT Servers, Clustering.
Education
James Madison University - College of Business United States (Virginia)
, may 1992 - december 1993
MBA, Finance and IDS
George Mason University United States (Virginia)
, january 1989 - august 1991
BSc, Economics and IRM
Northern Virginia Community College United States (Virginia)
, september 1987 - may 1989
ASc, Business Administration
About me
Interests:
Playing ice and inline hockey. Learning to play guitar Sleeping and eating
Languages:
English
Groups and associations:
biznik, eCademy, Fast Pitch, Jigsaw, LinkedIN, Naymz, Plaxo, Ryze, Spoke, Twitter, UNYK, and ZoomInfo