Spearheaded and developed the delivery of a lead-generation driven Cyber Security Assessment that rendered a total close rate of 35% on net new labels
Developed and built product demos for multiple EDR, XDR, SiEM, and Email tools for pre-sales and marketing use in various capacities
Developed customized proposals that demonstrated a clear understanding of client requirements and offered compelling solutions to meet their unique needs.
Worked with sales as the primary technical resource to implement, conduct, and deliver POC/POV's with prospective clients.
Provided Sales Engineering Support on net new book of business with 1.2 million in ARR in the last rolling 12 months
Built and conducted cyber security marketing webinars that produced an average of 15 net new qualified opportunities per webinar
Attended trade shows and seminars to promote products and network with industry contacts.
Technical Certifications with strategic partners including Microsoft Azure, CortexXDR/XSIAM Certified Professional, Exabeam Sales Professional, Proofpoint, and Ironscales.
Established long-term relationships with key clients for repeat business and referrals, cultivating a strong network within the industry.
Identified sales opportunities by assessing environment and devising and implementing winning strategy.
Conducted regular account reviews, as well as quarterly business reviews to proactively identify areas of improvement and implement necessary changes.
Solutions Engineer
Limelight Networks.
09.2020 - 12.2021
Worked directly with Clients as a technical account resource (some of the largest names in digital content delivery and video streaming) to effectively troubleshoot complex issues, Identify up-sell opportunities, and ensure overall customer satisfaction.
Maintained working relationships with over 50+ network/service/hardware providers around the globe to ensure reliable and stable network, including managing 3rd party outages/maintenances, or upgrade/repair requests.
Designed and prepared technical presentations and recommended solutions for client issues.
Responsible for acting as an Incident Manager, and dedicated Technical Resource during network outages, client incidents, and bridges.
Configuration, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of network and server infrastructure within one of the world’s largest private internets, including but not limited to, Router/TOR troubleshooting and maintenance, DNS routing configurations, VIP configuration, Load balancer configuration and performance, general hardware replacement/maintenance, and overall Linux server performance.
Tasked with troubleshooting complex BGP/network peering/routing to determine the source of network related issues, and bottlenecks.
Maintained large repository of “up to date” Documentation, SOPs, and runbooks within Confluence for a number of technologies.
Sr. Technical Support Manager
Ipro Tech LLC.
12.2018 - 07.2020
Responsible for the hiring and managing of multiple Advanced Technical Support Teams, focusing on Customer Satisfaction, Client Retention, Up-sell Opportunities, and Continued Professional Growth.
Uncovered up-sell opportunities through support activities which led to an increase in average customer value and increased retention.
Assisted in cross-functional management culture group, aimed at improving company wide communication and process improvement.
Facilitated the migration from a proprietary customer facing ticketing system to Jira, including reporting, SLA’s, and historical data.
Led the implementation and development of a companywide centralized knowledgebase (Confluence) including article development and best practices for maintenance.
Adopted a transactional CSAT scoring system to better understand customer needs and process shortcomings.
Improved and consistently maintained a 4.83 out of 5.00 CSAT through process improvement and development prioritization.
Developed, documented, and maintained processes/best practices for multi-level technical support organization.
Sr. Manager, Advanced Technical Support
Endurance International Group Holdings Inc.
09.2015 - 10.2018
Responsible for the hiring and managing of multiple Advanced Technical Support Teams, focusing on Customer Satisfaction, Technical Implementation of products, Identification of Up-Sell Opportunities, Metrics (KPI's/SLA’s), and Continued Professional Growth.
Developed, documented, and maintained processes/best practices for multi-level technical support organization.
Supported multiple data and customer migrations after acquisitions.
Assisted various business groups with document organization and dissemination during acquisitions.
Implemented new technologies and processes for a multi-national support organization.
Partnered with Sr Management and department leaders to ensure stakeholder satisfaction.
Partnered with multiple BPO's ensuring offshore teams are prepared to provide world class technical support (involved international travel).
Facilitated the unification of support processes, helped to create a cross-brand cross-functional technical support organization.
Operations Engineer
Endurance International Group Holdings Inc.
03.2014 - 09.2015
Work directly with a wide range of internal Sales and Technical teams to provide technical expertise on SAAS and On-Prem solutions.
Consistently met SLA's and requirements for all client support requests.
Worked as the primary technical resource for a wide range of product deployments and customer implementations.
Tasked with personally handling contact and providing solutions to extremely escalated clients.
Tasked with training new hires in the technical department's policies and procedures.
Adapted to the needs of my supervisors and the needs of my team members while communicating and staying goal oriented.
Education
Associate of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Mesa Community College
Mesa, AZ
Skills
Customer-centric
Problem-solving
Challenger Sales
Pre-sales
Presentation Skills
Relationship Building
Technical consulting
Solution selling
Technical account management
Situational Leadership II
CortexXDR/XSIAM
CrowdStrike
SentinelOne
Defender
Carbon Black
Extrahop
Mimecast
Proofpoint
Ironscales
Azure Sentinel
Exabeem
Azure
AWS
SIEM
XDR
NDR
Linux
Windows
TCP/IP
Cisco
Brocade
Palo Alto
MySQL
MSSQL
Python
KQL
XML
References
Daniel Jones, (480)540-9224, VP of Enterprise Sales
Andrew Gilbert, (719)210-2670, Director of Customer Support