Eduardo Figueredo

Current

Storage Architect at FalconStor Software

Past

Advisory Technical Consultant at EMC
Sr. Staff Systems Engineer at EMC
Sr. Sales Engineer at LEGATO Systems

Sales Engineer at Qualix Group
Sales Engineer at FullTime Software
Research Associate at University of Miami
Staff Consultant at Accenture
Staff Consultant at Andersen Consulting
Software Test Engineer Summer Intern at Microsoft
Software Test Engineer Summer Intern at Microsoft

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Education

University of Miami
University of Miami

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500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

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Eduardo Figueredo’s Summary

Motivated engineer with 16 years of customer facing technical consulting or sales experience including international and domestric customers, direct and channel sales models. The last twelve years have included architecting high availability, backup and archiving, and disaster recovery solutions.

Recently, I storage virtualization to the product sets that I architect solutions for.

I mentor and train new architects too help them become contributing members of the team. I have outlined a10 day new hire orientation for storage architects, to help facilitate their assimilation.

I have a personal goal of becoming a pre-sales manager.

Eduardo Figueredo’s Specialties:

Architecting and implementing clustering and disaster recovery solutions.
Conducting Backup/Recovery Assessments.
Conducting De-Duplication Assessments
Conducting File Server Archiving Assessments
Conducting E-Mail Archiving Assessments.

EMC Technical Architect - Backup & Recovery Specialist
EMC Storage Associate
EMC AutoStart Certfied
VMWare VCP on VI3 Certification

Fluent in Spanish.

Eduardo Figueredo’s Experience

Storage Architect

FalconStor Software

(Public Company; FALC; Computer Software industry)

February 2009 — Present (6 months)

In this channel oreitned pre-sales position I have been developing and strengthening relationships with channel partners in Florida, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In Latin America, in particular, I have the sole responsibility for developing the channel.

In this role I not only continue to architect dedupe solutions (VTL, NFS and CIFS) as in my previous job, but I now also architect storage virtualization and CDP solutions.
Advisory Technical Consultant

EMC

(Public Company; EMC; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 9 months)

I was at this desk since my days with Qualix Group and LEGATO Systems, that is through two mergers.

Backup, Recovery and Archive Technical Consultant (5/2007-Present)
This is a pre-sales engineer role in which I complement our selling efforts by performing File Server Assessments, Email Archiving Assessments and Backup Assessments. The assessments include the installing of datat gathering tools, collecting the data, analyzing the data, and then reporting on the both in a Detailed Report and in an Executive Summary presentation.
Sr. Staff Systems Engineer

EMC

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EMC; Computer Hardware industry)

November 2003 — April 2007 (3 years 6 months)

Field Sales Engineer (Jan/06-4/2007).

Availability Subject Matter Expert (Nov/03-Dec/05). Responsible for pre-sales and post sales engineering support for enterprise customers world wide for clustering and replication software. Activities include technical sales presentations, certification training of colleagues and VARS, conducting evaluations and proof-of-concepts, and implementations. In addition, I also developed the integration of our clustering product with Microsoft Cluster via the Cluster Automation Server classes using Visual Basic.net.
Sr. Sales Engineer

LEGATO Systems

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; LGTO; Computer Software industry)

April 1999 — November 2003 (4 years 8 months)

Availability Corporate Systems Engineer (Jun/02-Nov/03): Responsible for pre-sales and post sales engineering support for enterprise customers world wide for clustering and replication software. Activities include technical sales presentations, certification training of colleagues and VARS, conducting evaluations and proof-of-concepts, and implementations.

Latin America Sales Engineer (Apr/99 - Jun/02). Responsible Carribean, Central and South America for backup, clustering and replication software for the Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX operating systems. Train VARS, Resellers, and Customers on how to install, configure, and maintain the software. Made President’s club in 2000 and 2001. LEGATO merged with EMC in November 2003.
Sales Engineer

Qualix Group

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; QLIX; Computer Software industry)

December 1996 — April 1999 (2 years 5 months)

Responsible for pre-sales engineering support to Florida, Carribean, Central and South America for QualixHA+, Qualix Datastar, and Octopus on a variety of OSes including Windows, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX operating systems. Train VARS, Resellers, and Customers on how to install, configure, and maintain the software. Made President’s club in 1997 and 1998. Qualix Group merged with LEGATO Systems in 1999.
Sales Engineer

FullTime Software

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; QLIX; Computer Software industry)

July 1998 — April 1999 (10 months)

This job and company are the same as the Qualix Group entry. Qualix Group was using FullTime Software as a DBA during this period.
Research Associate

University of Miami

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

November 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 2 months)

Software design and development for video conferencing applications for the Motif GUI environment for Solaris Operating System. Applications were developed to facilitate interaction between physicians and radiologists. Managed 2 student programmers
Staff Consultant

Accenture

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

August 1993 — November 1995 (2 years 4 months)

Same position as Andersen Consulting, just accounting for eventual name change.
Staff Consultant

Andersen Consulting

(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

August 1993 — November 1995 (2 years 4 months)

Process design and documentation; project time estimation, tracking, and reporting; training development and execution. Experience in supervising five interns during one project.
Software Test Engineer Summer Intern

Microsoft

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

May 1992 — August 1992 (4 months)

Software Test Engineer Summer Intern for the Works Business Unit.
Software Test Engineer Summer Intern

Microsoft

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

May 1991 — August 1991 (4 months)

Software Test Engineer for the Works Business Unit

Eduardo Figueredo’s Education

University of Miami

MS , Computer Engineering , August 1991 — May 1997

GPA 3.6
Master's Thesis: A Rule Based Health Level Seven Engine, 1997

Publication:
"VMIPVS: A Visual Image Processing and Visualization System", Image Capture, Formatting, and Display, SPIE Proceedings, Volume 2164, February, 1994.
University of Miami

BS , Computer Engineer , August 1987 — May 1991

GPA 3.6
Graduated with Honors

Activities and Societies:

Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Intramural Soccer