Saad Jalees

Summary

I'm a currently a Specialized Systems Engineer Sales at Cisco Systems, providing pre-sales consulting on Data Center technologies. By teaming up with Cisco sales people and Cisco partners, I help effectively in qualifying customer needs and designing the solutions. I conducted several workshops with all the stakeholders to gather the needs and requirements and design the best Data Center network infrastructure for customers.

CERTIFICATIONS

Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist (CCNP)

Cisco Data Center (CCNA)

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring (MCTS)

Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuring (MCTS)

Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator, Configuring (MCITP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP6) Professional Training PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Systems Engineer Sales Feb 2013 – Present

Develop and deliver responses to customer and prospect inquiries, including RFP and initial solution discussions.

Work with team on the development of standards, processes and procedures related to Data Center solutions, which improved support service by 20%.

Understand and articulate Cisco’s vision, strategy and architectural approach to Data Center and specifically in Unified Computing Systems (UCS).

Member of 13-member sales team in achieving $200 million in annual sales with 30% year-on-year growth.

Collaborate with the Account SE or Channel SE to develop winning and innovative solutions and proposals by leveraging a range of technologies to develop a customer / partner system.

Conduct customer presentations and highlight benefits of Cisco Data Center.

Provide critical, Cisco Data Center, product and solution training to technical pre-sales engineers.

Create and deliver technical presentations internally and externally, provide accurate and timely management information.

Directly working with Cisco BU’s for corporate applications like SAP HANA.

Create Bill of Material (BOM) for UCS Servers and Nexus Switches, MDS Switches and other related products/ Services.

Understand customer needs and provide best possible solution according to customer budget and needs.

Price the solution and help account managers to close major deals.

Communicate the status of issues to customer in a tmely manner.

Competition analysis, market research & trends, close eye on market situation and make policies according to market situation.

Organize demo and POC (proof of concept) for end users and partners. Key Accomplishments

Part of the team that won a $550K USD order, scored a competitive win-back from major competitors like HP, Dell IBM, and sold the first of its kind SAP Suite of HANA in DC, failover and DR at Greenply Industries.

Won Employe of the Qauter for two consecutive times having exceeded all quarterly sales targets by an average of 25% over a tweleve month period.

Train and develop team of System Engineer Sales who achived an average of 120% of their targets within an year. ARPATECH Pvt Ltd Karachi May 2011 to February 2013 Network/Desktop Administrator

Design new IT Policies regarding security and ethical issues; define effective and legitimate use of IT assets within the organization.

Facilitate IT Manager in strategic decision making regarding infrastructure to fulfill integrated needs of departments. act0l3@r.postjobfree.com

Building 1795, Road 3035, Block 430,

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Provide round the clock network and server support for smooth IT operations.

Install, configure and manage site to site IPsec VPN using CISCO Routers.

Manage and troubleshoot Trixbox VOIP server, configure EyeBeam softphones on the workstations and configure and design infrastructure for Packet8 IP phones.

Schedule, perform, and monitor system backups using samba server and perform data recoveries.

Installation and configuration of various types of Personal Computers and Printers. That includes administration, operation. management and support for all computers, workstations having Linux and Windows operating systems, managing email, anti spam and virus protection.

Manage communications networks including network access, connectivity and network outages. Security Data Mangler December 2009 to May 2011

Assess threats, risks and vulnerabilities from emerging security issues.

Maintain security infrastructure, including firewalls and security assessment systems.

Patch aggregation & network notification for users of latest product patches.

Analysis of viruses, worms and Trojans and providing mitigation. ORA-TECH Systems July 2009 to December 2009

Database administration and management on Oracle 9i/10g.

Installation of RAC (Real Application Clusters) on Red Hat Linux.

Create and maintain database users with different levels of responsibilities and assigning user profile. Technical Expertise

Data Center Technologies: Unified Computing System, Nexus Switches (1000v,2000 FEX, 3000, 5000,5600, 7000 and 9000), VPC, Fabric Path, OTV, MDS switches (9100, 9200i and 9700),Storage Protocols (iSCi, FC, FCIP and FIP) UCS Director, Cisco Energy Wise, SAP HANA Solutions.

Tools: Cisco Commerce Workspace (CCW), Sales Force (SFDC), Netformax Design Expert, Microsoft Visio.

Operating System: Microsoft Windows Server 2008, XP, Windows 7 & Vista.

Virtualization: VMware, Hyper-V.

Network Security and Protocols:, STP, Vlan, DHCP, TCP/IP, IPSEC, FTP, SMTP, POP3, NAT, PAT, ICMP, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF. Education

Bachelor of Computer Science and Information Technology (BCIT) NED University of Engineering and Technology (2004-2008). Interest & Extra-Curricular Activities

Read technical whitepapers and attend online webinars related Data Center.

Like to travel, interact with people.

Sports – Cricket and Table Tennis

References

Shall be provided upon request.

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