Bio

☲☲☲☲ OVERVIEW ☲☲☲☲ I am a driven, self-motivated, technical IT professional with a career spanning over 25 years, including more than 14 years in Systems and Sales Engineering roles requiring hands-on involvement in all aspects of technical sales and solution delivery. I have a proven track record of consistently exceeding sales targets, expanding territory and increasing market share, whilst building and maintaining strong customer and partner relationships. I am a strong team player and always willing to go the extra mile for my colleagues and my customers. ☲☲☲☲ NOTABLE SOLUTIONS PROJECT ☲☲☲☲ Well recognized: Retail Customer (Expand and Exinda) Working as an SE for Expand, I was successful in PoC’ing and winning the deal to deploy 170+ units into Africa, doing QoS and Acceleration to assist with the lack of bandwidth on VSAT and low bandwidth DSL links. Working as a SE for Exinda, I was successful in deploying 4 large Exinda units into their internet facing, 10 Gig links, as well as 160+ units into South Africa providing visibility and assisting with store rollout. Over $1mill in business. ☲☲☲☲ SPECIALITIES ☲☲☲☲ ✓LAN/WAN Optimization – QoS & Acceleration ✓Network Protocol analysis (SnifferPro, EtherPeek and WireShark) ✓Application Performance Management ✓Cisco High Level Routing and switching (all products) ✓Pre-sales Solution Selling ✓Network Security (IPS/IDS/Firewalls) ✓Network IP Sec / Access control ✓VoIP ✓Virtualization - VMware & Hyper-V ✓Cisco WAAS / Juniper WX / Expand and Exinda (Application Caching and Acceleration and Optimization) ☲☲☲☲ INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE ☲☲☲☲ EMEA | United Kingdom | Africa | UAE | India | Saudi Arabia | Australia