Ivan Frimmel
Pre-Sales Engineer
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia (Greater Atlanta Area)
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Ivan Frimmel's Overview
- Past
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- Solution Manager at OnX
- Enterprise Pre-Sales Engineer at Bell Canada (formerly xwave)
- Enterprise Product Marketing Manager at Dell - Middle East
- Enterprise Pre-Sales Engineer at Hewlett-Packard - Ohio, USA
- Enterprise Pre-Sales Engineer at Hewlett-Packard - Johannesburg, South Africa
- Product Manager at COMPAQ - Munich, Germany
- Enterprise Pre-Sales Engineer at COMPAQ - Johannesburg, South Africa
- Product Manager at Persetel - Johannesburg, South Africa
- Enterprise Pre-Sales Engineer at Acer - Johannesburg, South Africa
- Consultant at Frimmel Consulting - Johannesburg, South Africa
- Education
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- Heriot-Watt University
- Damelin
- Recommendations
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14 people have recommended Ivan
- Connections
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500+ connections
Ivan Frimmel's Summary
More than 15 years of experience in IT. Specializing in enterprise solutions design and implementation.
Specialties
IBM Certified System Expert - System x High Performance Servers, IBM Certified System Expert - BladeCenter, IBM Certified Specialist - System x, IBM Certified Systems Expert - System x and BladeCenter, HP APC - Superdome,HP ASC - Superdome, HP APP - Enterprise Solutions,HP ASP - Enterprise Solutions, HP ASC - Enterprise Storage, HP ASC - Storage Works XP, vmware VTSP4, vmware VSP 4, Microsoft Certified System Engineer, COMPAQ Master ASE, SCO UNIX ACE Plus, Novell CNE
Ivan Frimmel's Experience
Solution Manager
OnX
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
May 2011 – September 2011 (5 months) Greater Atlanta Area
Pre-sales design, services and consulting of enterprise class solutions.
Enterprise Pre-Sales Engineer
Bell Canada (formerly xwave)
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BCE; Telecommunications industry
September 2009 – May 2011 (1 year 9 months) Greater Atlanta Area
Technical pre-sales and support of enterprise solutions.
Achieved over 150% on 2010 target.
Enterprise Product Marketing Manager
Dell - Middle East
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; DELL; Information Technology and Services industry
May 2008 – July 2008 (3 months)
Marketing and business development of enterprise based server, storage and software products for the Middle East region.
Enterprise Pre-Sales Engineer
Hewlett-Packard - Ohio, USA
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry
October 2006 – January 2008 (1 year 4 months)
Work with HP’s channel partners to close complex big deals by focusing on the technical superiority of our products and the overall solution.In the second half of 2006 drove 14% growth on $16m quota. In the second half of 2007 delivered 5% growth on an $18m quota. With my help, one of my partners refocused their efforts and built a strong HP focused consolidation/virtualization practice thus growing their business by 79% in one year.
Enterprise Pre-Sales Engineer
Hewlett-Packard - Johannesburg, South Africa
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry
January 2003 – September 2006 (3 years 9 months)
Technical sales of enterprise solutions into HP’s top 10 named accounts. In an extremely tough competitive environment consistently acquired/locked-out new business from competitors by focusing on HP’s value proposition and overall technical superiority. Part of a great team, we dominated the market with an average of 40% market share during these 3 years. In 2006 carried a quota of $22m and significantly over achieved delivering $31m. My last quarter was my best quarter, delivered $19m, over achieving by 64%.
Product Manager
COMPAQ - Munich, Germany
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry
January 2001 – December 2002 (2 years)
Product management of ProLiant servers for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Collaborated with worldwide marketing on new product introductions, competitive analysis, pricing, life-cycle management, customer presentations and trade fairs. Revenues exceeding $500m p.a. across 20 countries. Increased market share from 40% to approx 53% in 18 months while maintaining solid margins.
Enterprise Pre-Sales Engineer
COMPAQ - Johannesburg, South Africa
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry
November 1997 – December 2000 (3 years 2 months)
Technical account management of a number of named accounts. Working with the account manager and the channel design new enterprise infrastructures. Designed and deployed one of the first worldwide Citrix reference sites with over 200 servers and 20000 users, due to its overwhelming success this solution doubled over the next couple of years.
Enterprise Pre-Sales Engineer
Acer - Johannesburg, South Africa
Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Hardware industry
October 1993 – October 1995 (2 years 1 month)
Technical Pre-Sales of AcerAltos servers, including large bids, training, customer presentations and solution design.
Ivan Frimmel's Skills
- BladeCenter
- System X
- Enterprise Storage
- Enterprise Solutions
- HP
- Servers
- VMware
- Storage
- Compaq
- High Performance Computing
- ASP
- SCO Unix
- xSeries
- SAN
- Virtualization
- Storage Area Networks
- NetApp
- Active Directory
- Windows
- Hardware
- HP Proliant
- Clustering
- Windows Server
- Citrix
- Laptops
- IBM Storage
- NAS
- Cisco
- DHCP
- vSphere
- Workstations
- Storage Virtualization
- Printers
- Windows 7
- Data Center
- VMware ESX
- Computer Hardware
- DNS
- Disaster Recovery
- Windows Server 2008
- Certified Novell Engineer
- Windows Server 2003
- HDS
- Brocade
- Sun
- Novell
- XP
- Pre-sales
- VDI
Ivan Frimmel's Education
Heriot-Watt University
Postgraduate Degree of Business Management, Business Administration
2002 – 2004
Damelin
Matric, High School
1989 – 1990
Ivan Frimmel's Additional Information
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Photography, Computers, New Technology
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