Peter Crocker

Technical Director, EMEA at Packet Design

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Current
Past
  • Consulting Systems Engineer at NetScreen
  • Systems Engineer – EMEA at VPNet
  • Support Manager / IT Manager at VPNet
  • Installations Manager at CERFnet
  • Network Specialist at SDSU Interwork Institute
Connections
365 connections
Industry
Computer Networking
Websites

Peter Crocker’s Summary

Top systems engineer 2 consecutive years, helped bring in a majority of the top 10 deals the company has closed since it's creation. I am very technical while still being able to determine the business factors that make a successful customer solution.

Peter Crocker’s Specialties:

L3 Routing Protocols: OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MPLS, RSVP-TE, EIGRP, Layer 3 VPNs
Security: Firewall, IPsec VPN, IDS, IPS
Systems: UNIX, Solaris, Linux, MacOS BSD

European channel & distributor market

NetScreen JNCIS Firewall – August 2003
Juniper JNCIP M&T Series Router #183 – April 2008
Juniper Networks Authorized Instructor – 2003


Peter Crocker’s Experience

  • Technical Director, EMEA

    Packet Design

    (Privately Held; Computer Networking industry)

    February 2009Present (6 months)

    Responsible for pre/post sales technical support and account management for Packet Design products in the Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Supported the implementation of network-wide management and monitoring solutions for customers providing network and traffic analytics to ISP and large financial / enterprise networks. Consistently achieve near or over 100% of quota for 3 years. Product technologies include: NetFlow, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, and UNIX.

  • Senior Technical Consultant - EMEA

    Packet Design

    (Privately Held; Computer Networking industry)

    January 2008January 2009 (1 year 1 month)

    Responsible for pre/post sales technical support and account management for Packet Design products in the Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Supported the implementation of network-wide management and monitoring solutions for customers providing network and traffic analytics to ISP and large financial / enterprise networks. Consistently achieve near or over 100% of quota for 3 years. Product technologies include: NetFlow, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, RSVP-TE and UNIX

  • Systems Engineer - East USA

    Packet Design

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

    June 2005January 2008 (2 years 8 months)

    Responsible for pre/post sales technical support and account management for Packet Design products in the Eastern United States. Supported the implementation of network-wide management and monitoring solutions for customers providing network and traffic analytics to ISP and large financial / enterprise networks. Consistently achieve near or over 100% of quota for 3 years. Product technologies include: NetFlow, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, and UNIX

  • Technical Product Training Consultant

    Juniper Networks

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; JNPR; Computer & Network Security industry)

    July 2003July 2005 (2 years 1 month)

    Technical Product Training Consultant
    Independent Consultant mostly working for Juniper Networks.

    • Lead Juniper M&T series router and NetScreen firewall training courses.

    • Technologies taught include: OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MPLS,
    firewall, IPsec and multicast.

    • Obtained JNCIP-M, JNCIS-FWV and Juniper instructor
    certifications in 2004.

  • Consulting Systems Engineer

    NetScreen

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; JNPR; Computer & Network Security industry)

    January 2001January 2003 (2 years 1 month)

    Now part of Juniper Networks

    One of three persons responsible for coordinating the launch of European operations resulting in consistent 35% quarter-on- quarter revenue growth over 2 years. Roles and responsibilities included: managing pre-sales SE team, professional training, post-sales technical support and outside sales.

    Responsible for pre-sales technical support and technical
    account management for NetScreen's top ten deals in EMEA. Average deal over $1M US.

    Worked regularly with stateful inspection firewalls, IPsec, routers and load-balancing switches.

    Coordinated with Marketing and R&D Departments to develop
    features critical to NetScreen’s success.

    Developed and maintained strong technical relationships with channel partners and customer technical teams in order to identify new opportunities for business.

    Consulted to internal Systems Engineers on high-level products and technologies.

  • Systems Engineer – EMEA

    VPNet

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AV; Computer & Network Security industry)

    May 2000December 2000 (8 months)

    VPNet Technologies is now Avaya

    Systems Engineer – EMEA

    • Provided pre- and post-sales technical support to internal and external sales representatives for entire European region.

  • Support Manager / IT Manager

    VPNet

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AV; Computer & Network Security industry)

    March 1999May 2000 (1 year 3 months)

    VPNet Technologies is now Avaya

    Support Manager / IT Manager

    • Supervised technical support including installation and
    configuration of VPNet products for both internal and external clients.

    • Responsible for all of the internal network and systems including WAN, VPN, VoIP, routers, Windows NT servers and
    applications.

  • Installations Manager

    CERFnet

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Computer Networking industry)

    July 1997March 1999 (1 year 9 months)

    CERFnet was purchased by TCG (Teleport Communications Group) which was purchased by AT&T.

    • Managed group of 5 people responsible for the configuration and implementation of corporate Internet connections to AT&T's Internet backbone.

    • Extensive experience with Cisco routers (1600 through 12000) and various VPN products. Configuration of BGP, OSPF, ATM, Frame-Relay, SMDS and other WAN and LAN technologies.

  • Network Specialist

    SDSU Interwork Institute

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

    November 1995June 1997 (1 year 8 months)

    • Department IT Manager responsible for day-to-day staff
    operations.

    • Extensive national and international consulting and travel.

    • Built and administered Solaris / Sun server providing email and server functions for hundreds of employees and students.


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