Technical Director, EMEA at Packet Design
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Technical Director, EMEA at Packet Design
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
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.
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
(Privately Held; Computer Networking industry)
February 2009 — Present (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.
(Privately Held; Computer Networking industry)
January 2008 — January 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
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)
June 2005 — January 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
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; JNPR; Computer & Network Security industry)
July 2003 — July 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.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; JNPR; Computer & Network Security industry)
January 2001 — January 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 NetScreens 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.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AV; Computer & Network Security industry)
May 2000 — December 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.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AV; Computer & Network Security industry)
March 1999 — May 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.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Computer Networking industry)
July 1997 — March 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.
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Networking industry)
November 1995 — June 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.