Travis Martin

Results-driven technology leader with extensive datacenter expertise and experience in international operations. Proven ability to address complex business challenges through innovative solutions. Active participant in industry events, including Super Compute 25, and currently advancing knowledge in Quantum Computing and Post Quantum Security through MIT's program. TS/SCI clearance eligible for renewal.

• Sr Solution Architect, HPE, 11/01/23, 12/31/25, Central, Specialized in Hypervisor diversification discussions, OpenShift, Nutanix, HP VME, Simplivity, K8s. Proven track record of solving complex business problems with proven technical solutions. Several customers have provided onsite badges, so I may come and go as their teams need as well as bi-monthly office hours for their teams to whiteboard out ideas with myself or engineers I bring in.
• Sr Solution Architect, Dell, 01/01/22, 05/31/23, Central, Directly support a team of 8x Account Executives, Data Center Engineers, Technical Sales reps, etc. APEX Private Cloud, VMWare, VXRail, VSAN, Hyper-V, Azure Stack, Nutanix, PowerStore, Isilon, Data Domain, and even HPC projects with CUDA are all in my wheelhouse and I am the lead engineer for these solutions. Consistently over attained my revenue goals and received Inspire Points from multiple team members.
• Sr Solutions Engineer, Nutanix, 03/01/21, 01/31/22, State of CA, Presented features of Nutanix / AHV to the largest entities in the State of CA, Public Sector. Held joint presentation sessions with Channel partners and grew our business. Performed live demonstrations on various features of Nutanix HCI, Calm, Acropolis, Flow, Karbon, etc.
• Regional Sales Manager, Lenovo, 02/01/16, 06/30/19, West/Central, Grew the Lenovo HX business from absolute $0 in pipeline to +$9.2mil in less than 6 months. Training/Dev of Lenovo team as well as outside VARs on Hyperconverged or Web Scale approach.
• Sr Systems Engineer, Virtuozzo, 03/01/15, 02/29/16, SE Lead, Global, Presenting the Virtuozzo Container, VM and Software Defined Storage (SDS) solution via trade shows, live demonstrations, white boarding sessions, and designing / deploying POC’s daily. As our Global SE team lead my responsibilities included: coaching of other engineers, composition of white papers / technical documents, channel partnership development for Value Added Resellers that want to build sales and services around our solution, and maintenance of our global Demo Set. Quarterly attainment of +130% and personally driven to own a larger piece of the Converged Infrastructure market, Software Defined Storage is the future.
• Sr Account Executive, Mosaic Tech / Right System, 03/01/13, 03/31/15, PAC NW, Assisted Medium to Large Enterprise customers in solving IT challenges with advanced technologies. Presented a session around the difficulties of utilizing SAN storage for Performance VMs at the Seattle VMUG in May 2013.
• Systems Engineer, Dell Data Center Solutions Group, 05/01/06, 02/28/13, Central, Started working with NASA early in the stages of their Nebula project which later, in partnership with Rackspace, which in turn became OpenStack. This led to a 2,500 server cluster deployed at NASA Goddard. In 2011, before it was the industry standard, I was principle engineer for multiple GPU clusters with CUDA. Presented Dell technologies at Super Compute 2011, hosted in Seattle, WA. These customers included fortune 50 accounts, major financial institutions, more than 10 substantial Universities. I was the SA directly mapped to more than ten +500 compute node, hyperscale solutions, many deploying next generation systems that are still on the bleeding edge of deployed technology.
• Systems Administrator, Hertz Data Center, 01/01/00, 12/31/02, OKC, OK, UNIX / HP-UNIX administration responsibilities and general Perl / Python scripting.
• Senior Systems Analyst, United States Marine Corps, 01/01/95, 12/31/00, Cherry Point, NC, Presented daily aircrew briefings of known and perceived threats to various levels of DOD officials to include the Secretary of Defense, Major and General level Marine Officers, and civilian contractors. Senior Systems Administrator on Sun E10000 solution that analyzed air crew data and logs. Wrote basic Perl, Python, and Shell scripts and deployed several versions of Solaris to include 7 - 10. Received an award of achievement due to work done on Testing and Development of a secured information processing system, that is while modified, still in use today. Held a TS/SCI security clearance that can be renewed to cover DOD accounts.

• Signals Intelligence Analyst, United States Marine Corps, 01/01/95, 12/31/97, TS-SCI Clearance, Commendations for Leadership
• Sr Systems Administrator, Hertz, 01/01/97, 12/31/00, UNIX / Solaris / Perl / Python, Multiple Commendations
• Sr Systems Administrator, Hertz, 01/01/00, 12/31/02, HPUX / Perl / Python
• Sales Manager, Best Buy, 01/01/02, 12/31/06, Computers, Home Theater and Geek Squad Departments
• Student, Oklahoma University, 01/01/02, 12/31/05, Computer Science
• Solutions Architect, Dell, 01/01/06, 12/31/13, Public Accounts, 120%+ attainment with multiple awards
• Solutions Architect, Mosaic / Right Systems, 01/01/13, 12/31/15, Channel / Value Added Reseller group
• Global SE Lead, Virtuozzo, 01/01/15, 12/31/16, Container Technologies, Docker, Kubernetes etc
• Regional Sales Manager West, Lenovo, 01/01/16, 12/31/19, Hyperconverged Technologies Group
• Sr Systems Engineer, Nutanix, 01/01/21, 12/31/22, State of CA Public Accounts
• Sr Systems Engineer, Dell, 01/01/22, 12/31/23, Private and Public Cloud discussions, DC Hardware
• Sr Solutions Architect, HPE, 01/01/23, 12/31/26, AI, GPUs, Hypervisor Diversity, Cyber Security, Storage