PRESTON MONTEE
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www.linkedin.com/in/preston-montee-036b441
Forward focused IT professional with a strong ability to facilitate customer driven objectives. Over 20 years of Information Technology success including virtualizing, innovating and keeping the customer objective first.
EXPERIENCE
JUNE 2019 – FEB 2021
TECHNICAL ACCOUNT MANAGER
Tableau
Manage technical relationships with customers
Provide best practice guidance and recommendations for optimum Tableau ecosystem.
Build strong cross functional relationship with account teams
Provide escalation management on critical cases by working closely with Support, Sustaining Engineering, and/or Development to provide regular status updates to the customer.
Coordinate communications with all required stakeholders on crucial support cases and high priority issues.
Conduct quarterly reporting and case reviews to spot trends, proactively identify potential issues, and offer tailored release recommendations to meet stability, performance, and new feature requirements.
Identity revenue opportunities and partner with the account team to recommend paid services, licenses, training, and additional Tableau products to meet current needs and future growth
Build and deploy Tableau server in AWS EC2, Azure and VMWare for issue reproduction, learning and training exercises.
AUG 2014 – JUNE 2019
TABLEAU SERVER ADMINISTRATOR
Dell EMC
Manage and support large Tableau Server cluster for enterprise users.
Create scripts for automating daily maintenance tasks
Maintain dev test and prod environments and lead IT governance team for content promotion
Plan and perform system upgrades following ITIL, SOX and internal change management processes
Build and maintain infrastructure diagrams for all environments
Build, configure, upgrade and maintain multiple Tableau server environments
Maintain upgrade cadence for stability and feature enhancements for user base
Lead and contribute to data and process governance within EBI systems
JAN 2009 – 2014
SAS ADMINISTRATOR
Dell EMC
Manage and support SAS for small to medium business analytics. This includes a multi-tier environment supporting 300 developers and more than 30k data consumers. My role also included deploying SAS for Dell elite customers including several colleges and large businesses.
JAN 2007 – 2009
WINTEL SE
Dell EMC
Infrastructure deployment Systems engineer. Designed and deployed internal solutions to world class data centers for global connectivity and operation. This included rack and stack, networking, imaging and deploying applications per vender instructions.
JULY 2003 – AUG 2007
LAB MANAGER
Dell EMC
Designed a 5000sqf data center and managed the deployment of servers, SAN, network, security (physical and network) and everything else included in populating a new datacenter for turn key infrastructure. Once completed, I led a team to create global access designed for technical support usability world wide
OCT 2002 – JUNE 2003
STORAGE AND SERVER SUPPORT ENGINEER
Dell EMC
Supported Dell Gold and Platinum customers on Dell servers, Dell storage, EMC storage, Brocade, McData and Cisco fiber switches, Backup solutions, SAN and WAN solutions and any other item that came up from high priority enterprise customer issues.
NOV 1996 – JAN 2002
NETWORK ENGINEER
aep Energy
Network engineer for AEPs control network spanning the southern region. Supported power control networks and SCADA system controls for Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. This was a combination of DEC Alpha, Windows, Mainframe and Unix systems. One hundred percent uptime during my tenure.
SKILLS
Tableau administration 6 Years
Customer service
Analytic problem solving
ITIL / SOX Industry training and certification
AWS EC2
End to end troubleshooting
Windows Sever
SAS administration 8years
Linux
IdP including Okta, Federated, OneLogin
CERTIFICATIONS
Tableau Certified Server Associate
ITIL 2011 and V3
MS SQL server 2012 course training
Tableau certified course training updated on all supported versions to 2020.4
McData Master
Cisco CCNA/CCNP
Windows MCSE 2000, 2003
Six Sigma Yellow Belt
SAS Administration and support course training
Brocade Associate
ACTIVITIES
On my time off I enjoy spending time with my family, camping, kitesurfing as well as other water sports and traveling to new places.