Sales Engineer at Thales e-Security
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Sales Engineer at Thales e-Security
- Member at The Apache Software Foundation
- Past
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- Enterprise Solutions Engineer at nCipher
- Independent Contractor at Self Employed (Self-employed)
- Field Applications Engineer at Britestream Networks, Inc.
- Sr. Software Engineer at Covalent Technologies
- Product Manager at TopIT Distribution
- Service Engineer at Axio Systems
- Senior Technical Support Engineer at Planet Internet
- Education
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- University of Amsterdam
- Montessori Lyceum
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Sander Temme’s Summary
Computer networking software professional with extensive expertise in web infrastructure design, deployment and troubleshooting. Active member of the Open Source community and well versed in open source development methodologies.
Sander Temme’s Specialties:
Network architecture, TCP/IP and application level protocols, testing and benchmarking, web application scaling, open source technologies and principles. Extensive experience in customer facing roles. Experience as public speaker and trainer. Travel experience in USA, Europe, China, Israel and Canada. English (fluent), Dutch (native), French and German.
Sander Temme’s Experience
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Sales Engineer
Thales e-Security
(Public Company; Computer & Network Security industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
Thales acquired nCipher in October 2008.
Provide pre-sales technical assistance integrating company products for major customers. Present product portfolio to new and existing customers. Post-sales technical consultancy. Present to industry groups and conferences. Develop sales tools. Liaison with open source community to improve support for company products. -
Member
The Apache Software Foundation
(Computer Networking industry)
2005 — Present (4 years )
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Enterprise Solutions Engineer
nCipher
(Public Company; NCH.L; Computer & Network Security industry)
February 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Provide pre-sales technical assistance integrating company's Enterprise products for major customers. Present product portfolio to new and existing customers. Post-sales technical consultancy. Present to industry groups and conferences. Develop sales tools. Liaison with open source community to improve support for company products.
nCipher was acquired by Thales E-Security in October 2008. -
Independent Contractor
Self Employed (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Writing and Editing industry)
2004 — February 2007 (3 years )
Performed network and infrastructure consulting, server management, code development and training for such clients as Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Walt Disney Imagineering, Covalent Technologies and the University of California at Berkeley.
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Field Applications Engineer
Britestream Networks, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)
May 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 6 months)
Provided technical expertise during sales and OEM trajectory. Performed demonstrations of product. Troubleshooting of customer installations and evaluations. Assistance integrating product into OEM projects. Coordinated and provided oversight for outsourced custom application development project. Performend and managed partner technical certification projects.
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Sr. Software Engineer
Covalent Technologies
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2001 — February 2004 (3 years 1 month)
Performed performance analysis and benchmarking on Apache web server. Installed load testing environment. Performed performance analysis of web server software by Apache and other vendors. Wrote performance comparison white papers. Performed scalability and performance analysis at SunTone lab for certification of Covalent Apache-based products. Implemented SPECWeb99 benchmark. Wrote mod_specweb99 for Apache. This code was later donated to the Apache Software Foundation. Secured installation of defect tracking system. Maintained defect tracking system, developed in-house software in Perl and Java to automate gathering of defect metrics. Acquired, installed and maintained test, performance analysis, development and product demonstration machines.
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Product Manager
TopIT Distribution
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)
January 1998 — December 1999 (2 years )
Assisted in spin-off from parent company. Provided product information to resellers for networking, hardware and software products distributed by TopIT. Provided technical training to reseller employees. Provided second tier support to resellers and endusers. Performed installation and deployment consultancy to endusers on behalf of resellers. Authoried and published white papers, technical notes and FAQ lists. Designed and maintained company website. Installed and maintained company network, servers, systems and Internet connection.
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Service Engineer
Axio Systems
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — December 1997 (1 year )
Made service calls to customers to install and maintain computer, networking and telecommunications equipment. Installed Macintosh and Windows PC hardware and software. Installed ISDN connectivity hardware and software. Installed network and telecommunications infrascructure. Provided after-sales troubleshooting and support. Provided backup support for resellers. In many cases, I was the only company person the customer had face-to-face contact with. Left to spin off distribution business (see under TopIT Distribution).
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Senior Technical Support Engineer
Planet Internet
(Internet industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year )
Sander Temme’s Education
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University of Amsterdam
Doctorandus , Experimental Physics , September 1987 — May 1994
Intense, four year curriculum of math, physics and computer science culminating in MSc level practical research and thesis document. My research addressed part of a project on Critical Fluids in microgravity, which flew on Spacelab in 1992 (IML-1 on STS-42). Dutch title of Doctorandus gives access to PhD program.
- Activities and Societies:
- Study trip committee, Inter-college physics student body, organizing committee of the International Conference for Physics Students in 1990, played keyboards in a rock band
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Montessori Lyceum
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Sander Temme’s Interests:
Sailing, travel, new technology
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