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Tim Rone

Austin,TX

Summary

Dedicated Presales Solutions Architect that employs creativity, discipline, and experience to present complex technical products/concepts to new and existing clients throughout the world while demonstrating product value to them during the sales opportunity process.

Specialties: Presales Solution Consulting on Product Demonstrations, Proof-of-Concept projects, technical troubleshooting and conducting product based Data Modelling, Data Governance and Warehousing training and webinars

Overview

45
45
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Presales Solution Architect

Idera
07.2016 - Current

Responsible for the presentation of complex technical products/concepts to new and existing clients throughout the world. Focusing on demonstrating the product's value to the prospective Customers during the sales process. Many Products are in the portfolio including data modeling/governance, Business Process modelling and others. Produce and host product Webinars for erstudio.com and youtube.

Lead proof-of-concept and proof-of-value (POC/POV) meetings, and provide RFIs when requested. Serve a technical resource for the Sales and Marketing departments, and collaborate with Product Development and other cross-functional groups to facilitate organizational goals. Helped integrate new technology on key product, partnering with Product Managers to improve functionality.

Lead Customer Success Engineer

Lytx
01.2012 - 07.2016
  • Customer care and application service delivery of the Company’s online application and proprietary Driver Risk Management Device
  • As part of the Customer Success team for the Company, had to recognize and provide timely and correct problem resolution
  • Team members had to have competency on a wide range of computing and database technologies (Windows, Linux, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.)

Network and Telephony Engineer

Trucomm
12.2003 - 01.2012
  • Contracted to plan and install network and telephony topology to support various Client locations
  • Daily activities included the creation of CAT5 Ethernet cable runs, Installation of switches, hubs, routers, and telephony equipment in customer sites
  • Aided in the design and creation of switch rooms including the installation of equipment racks, punch-down panels, and telephone switches
  • Other daily activities included tracing network cables with tone generators, performance of basic connection/link tests, and troubleshooting telephone issues

Service Delivery Manager

Computer Sciences Corp.
12.1999 - 12.2003
  • This position was line management of first the Pennant Alliance Client services and database team (~20 people) and then the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Applications Support team (~50 people)
  • These Technical and Client support teams aided in the management and subsequent support of the desktop environments and application deployment projects for the Client’s many departments

Technical Team Lead and Technical Support Engineer

Systech Consulting
08.1990 - 11.1999
  • Had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects and application service delivery operations
  • Set-up SEMA’s software services and technical Support organization in Santiago, Chile
  • Responsibilities included creating a 7/24 help desk team, staff recruitment, and developing a software services training program to enhance both staff effectiveness and customer account management
  • Technical consulting to the AMS application support team to help them with the implementation and subsequent roll-out of the SACCS project
  • Provide training to Cable and Wireless programming and system development staffs on structured programming, relational database design and administration, and troubleshooting transaction processing based applications
  • Part of their Architecture team tasked with solving their application and relational database response time problems on their large student loan processing application
  • Provide software development project management, relational database design and administration, transaction processing technical support, and systems design guidance to a variety of Digital’s customers in the mid-west region
  • Provide general technical support and systems/software development expertise in an effort to help the University Hospital manage their existing clinical information systems and roll-out new ones
  • DBA and member of their technical support group
  • Responsibilities included helping the team to provide accurate database problem isolation and correction on one of the Nation’s largest distributed database application architectures

Team Lead

Pactel Cellular
01.1988 - 07.1990
  • Part of the application development team which was responsible for the development, maintenance, and technical support of a large customer management and billing application

Lead Programmer Analyst

Computer Sciences Corp.
07.1985 - 01.1988
  • Lead system programmer working with DEC’s OLTP tool set, I developed online tasks and batch programs
  • Later, as a member of the System Architecture team, I analyzed and corrected system performance problems on a large transaction processing application

Electronics Technician

United States Navy
05.1980 - 07.1985
  • Achieved submarine warfare qualification on the nuclear submarine USS Swordfish and left the service at the rank of second-class petty officer (ET2 SS)
  • My duties included the programming and maintenance of the onboard surveillance and navigation computers as well as serving as one of the boat’s nuclear quality assurance inspector

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

National University
San Diego, CA
05.1989

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist MCTS - Windows & SQL Server 2005

Microsoft

Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional MCITP - undefined

Skills

  • Product Demonstration
  • Presales Consulting
  • Proof of Concept
  • Solution Architecture
  • Relational Data Modeling
  • System Architecture
  • Database Platforms (SQL Server, Oracle, Databricks, Snowflake, etc)
  • Business Intelligence
  • Windows Desktop and Server editions
  • Agile Methodologies
  • SaaS

References

Supplied upon request.

Resumeofqualifications

To use my Client-focused problem solving skills supporting applications and databases to help the Company effectively manage their service delivery and information technology needs., 10+ years of being part of and leading Information Technology and Technical Support teams involving support for Hardware Devices, Firmware, Windows applications, Relational databases and Windows Desktops (Tier 1, 2 & 3)., Creation and support of IIS based application servers and SOAP based APIs using MS Visual Studio C#, Creation of SQL procedures and analysis of data to support Client troubleshooting., Implementation, management, and maintenance of computer network LAN/WAN and telephony (hardware and software)., Veteran – United States Navy Submarine Service, Microsoft and ITIL Certified, A firm believer that Technical Support is foremost about Customer expectation management

Timeline

Sr. Presales Solution Architect

Idera
07.2016 - Current

Lead Customer Success Engineer

Lytx
01.2012 - 07.2016

Network and Telephony Engineer

Trucomm
12.2003 - 01.2012

Service Delivery Manager

Computer Sciences Corp.
12.1999 - 12.2003

Technical Team Lead and Technical Support Engineer

Systech Consulting
08.1990 - 11.1999

Team Lead

Pactel Cellular
01.1988 - 07.1990

Lead Programmer Analyst

Computer Sciences Corp.
07.1985 - 01.1988

Electronics Technician

United States Navy
05.1980 - 07.1985

Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional MCITP - undefined

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

National University

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist MCTS - Windows & SQL Server 2005

Microsoft
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