Manager Sales

Sandro Carlos Pereira

Orlando -Florida - USA

Mobile. 561-***-****

e-mail - **********@*****.***

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Authorized to work in the USA

Senior Cloud Architect

QUALIFICATIONS

• Solid technology career built with a large experience in international companies, of which more than 14 years were at one of the largest global IT companies, IBM (International Business Machine).

• Cloud Platform Solution Services Offering Manager for Paas, Saas and BigData Technologies, including Security Solutions including CDN, Firewalls, Global Load Balancers.

• Deep knowledge of Latin America territories, where I achieve the grow in IBM Service Sales.

• Ability to build a solid relationship with the client, during the sales / pre-sales phase or even during the delivery of the projects, interacting with the technical and business areas, promoting assertive and productive communication, acting as a facilitator (Consultant Adviser)

• Team Coordination focused on synergistic and high-performance environments. Coordination of multidisciplinary teams (partners, Technical Sales Engineer, Marketing, financial and project managers) aiming at anticipating solutions for the client.

• Leading in global projects such as migration and restructuring of data centers (SIESA-CO / BANCOLOMBIA-CO / Heineken-MX / CEMEX-MX / Ambev-BR / ABINBEV-BE / SMARTFREN-IN) constantly improving the quality of Cloud services, implementing best practices and reducing infrastructure costs.

• Experience in several segments such as Power Generation / Distribution, Retail, Telecommunications and Finance and working with clients such as GMAC, Heineken, Bradesco, Bancolombia, ALGAR among others.

• Specialist in data center, cloud Infrastructure/Architecture designs, VPN, Firewall, Load Balancer implementations.

• Deep knowledge in TSD - Team Solution Design, and TOGAF - The Open Group Architecture Framework.

• Strong performance in all areas of the client (BackOffice and front Office), extensive experience in C-level executive contacts, conducting negotiations in several areas, covering large and small customers.

• Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese (native language) EDUCATION

• Associate Degree in Network Computers at UNIP – Universidade Paulista / Campinas/ SP / BR / 2019 CERTIFICATION

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Certification SAA-C02

• CKA – Kubernetes Administrator (forecast Feb / 2021)

• Architectural Thinking / 2018

• IBM Agile Explorer / 2018

• Team Solution Design / 2018

• IBM Cloud Private - Foundation Technology / 2018

• IBM Cloud Private Infrastructure and Architecture / 2018

• IBM Cloud Private Installation and Configuration / 2018

• Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner / 2017

• The Open Group Master IT Specialist Certified / 2011

• IBM IT Specialist L2 Certified / 2011

• MCP – Microsoft Certified Professional / 2007

• VMware VCP - VMware Certified Professional ESX 3.5 / 2006 MAIN TRAINING

• VMware NSX – Install, Configure and Manage 6.4

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Kubernetes Bootcamp

• Cloud Academy – Fundamentals of AWS

• Cloud Academy – Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

• Cloud Academy - Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JUL/06 – JUL/20 - IBM BRAZIL

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York. It was founded in 1911 in Endicott, New York, and has operations in over 170 countries.

Cloud Platform Solution Architect (Sep/18 – Jul/20) IBM Latin America HQ (Latin America-LA) São Paulo - SP Report to Senior Director of LA Cloud & Cognitive, Technical Sales, Expert Services & Garage

• Cloud Platform Service Offerings Manager, training sessions for sales and pre-sales teams in all regions of Latin America.

• Architectural design for applications, services or microservices in environments that use container orchestrators such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm, CDN, Load Balancers, IPSec VPNs, VPC Infrastructure, Amazon EKS and others, always focusing on multi-cloud or private cloud implementation Most Relevant Projects:

• Caixa Econômica Federal / Brazil: RedHat OpenShift Platform on IBM Cloud Implementation and support for a Federal Financial Customer in Brazil to provide financial assistance to more than 70 million people during the Corona virus pandemic. Cloud Platform implementation and management on the IBM Cloud, including all physical database servers, Cloud lnternet Service with WAF CDN Global Load Balancer, all virtual application servers and all RedHat OpenShift Clusters.

• SIESA / Colombia: IBM Cloud Platform with a VMware on Cloud solution implementation and customer production support, consisting of a VMware vCenter environment with NSX and a physical Fortigate 10G device, including all clusters, security policies, network design and security profile, including VPN

• BANCOLOMBIA / Colombia: IBM outsourced client using IBM Cloud Platform with VMware VCS. Design creation and training to teach the IBM team how to implement the Overlayer network using the installed VMware NSX solution.

Cognitive Lab Services Telco Consultant (Apr/16 – Sep/18) IBM BRAZIL / São Paulo / SP

Reports to Second Line Manager of Services Delivery Leader - Cloud & Cognitive Applications

• Telecom consultant, with global experience delivering Big Data analytics solutions (The Now Factory) for large Telecommunications Companies.

• Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure in the second biggest Bank in Brazil, acting as Integration Architect. Conducting / Managing technical teams delivering the entire infrastructure using the best practices. Most Relevant Projects:

• SMARTFREN TELECOM / INDONESIA: Implementation of IBM SourceWorks Data Collector (Probe) for IBM Now Factory Customer and Network Analytics.

• ALGAR TELECOM / Brazil: IBM Now Factory Customer and Network Analytics engineer. Network design and the entire project implementation, including IBM Big Insigts (Hortonworks Hadoop), IBM Flex System, IBM SourceWorks Data Collector (Probe), IBM InfoSphere Streaming, 10G Network TOR, IBM Cognos, IBM CNA

(Customer & Network Analytics) and Workshops for the client team.

• BRADESCO / Brazil: Enterprise Datacenter Architect responsible for Customer Hybrid Cloud implementation. The Bradesco Hybrid Cloud project started with in 3 Datacenters, of which 2 on premises and 1 at IBM Cloud, running over VMware solution with NSX Overlayer.

Chief Architect (Jul/14 – Mar/16)

IBM BRAZIL / São Paulo / SP

Reports to First Line Manager of Architects Solutions Managed Services

• Aligned with all IBM Business Units to bring the client any opportunities that match with client requirements, engaging the pre-sales team and supporting negotiations at new deals.

• Solution architecture design & support with engagement team. Most Relevant Projects:

• AMBEV – Brazil: Datacenter Refresh. As Chief Architect, was responsible for creating a new project for the customer in his Datacenter, including IBM Power Systems, Intel Servers for Applications, VMware virtualization and Citrix Virtual Desktop, SAN-Storage Area Network and Storage System with DS and Flash Systems, LAN with Cisco Network Systems and ASA Firewalls.

TSA - Technical Solution Architect (Sep/13 – Jun/14) IBM BRAZIL / São Paulo / SP

Reports to First Line Manager of Brazil Infrastructure Services Solutions Leader

• Create infrastructure designs for new Data Center, migration plans and cost cases. Most Relevant Projects:

• AMBEV / Brazil: Contract negotiation. As TSA was responsible for conducting the renegotiation of the Outsourcing contract, reducing customer expenses by 25% using a new service delivery approach. Service Delivery Excellence Execution (SWAT Team) (Apr/09 – Sep/13) IBM BRAZIL / São Paulo / SP

Reports to Executive Director - IBM Brazil Hortolândia Site Manager

• Third level support for all IBM Brazil GTS Global Technology Services customers, SME - Senior Master Expert for Global Delivery Center and Domestics customers.

• Validating Datacenter Infrastructure Designs.

Most Relevant Projects:

• HEINEKEN / Mexico: Technical Leader and Enterprise Architect. Designing the solution for the new Heineken Datacenter on the IBM website. Leadership in the implementation of the Datacenter, technical meetings with the client and another Service Provider for migration and leadership in the waves of migration IBM IT Specialist and Consulting (Jul/06 – Mar/09) IBM BRAZIL / São Paulo / SP

Reports to Second Line Manager of Global Delivery Center

• SME - Senior Master Expert for Global Delivery Center. Most Relevant Projects:

• TSYS – A financial corporate company. Data Center Implementation. Technical Leader, responsible for creating the low-level design and lead technical team implementation. JUL/00 – JUL/06 EDP – Energias de Portugal

EDP - Espírito Santo, formerly known as Espírito Santo Centrais Elétricas SA ( Escelsa ) is a Brazilian electricity distribution for almost the entire state of Espírito Santo. Senior IT Specialist (Jul/00 – Jun/06)

Reports to Director of IT Department / Serra / ES / Brazil

• Team Coordination, responsible for creating infrastructure standards, managing configuration, performance, availability and capacity and performance of all network devices and server components.

• Hiring suppliers, project management, hiring and developing team members, executive summary for the Board, partners and suppliers.

Most Relevant Projects:

• VMware virtual datacenter implementation with more than 120 Virtual Servers in production environment;

• Network modernization and standardization with an implementation of Cisco Solutions.

• Migration from Novel 3.12 to Microsoft Active Directory with Windows 2003.

• Departmental printing solution implemented as a standard for the corporation printing solution.

• Citrix Remote Desktop solution for Call Center department. Jan/98 – Jun/00 Personal Company / Contractor of EDP Group – Energias de Portugal Owner - Senior IT Specialist / Serra / ES / Brazil Oct/96 – May/98 Grafer Editora Ltda

Manager / Vitória / ES / Brazil

Mar/95 – May/98 Centro Educacional de Laranjeiras

High School Teacher / Serra / ES / Brazil

Dec/93 – Set/95 Suporte Computadores Ltda

Technical Support Coordinator / Vitória / ES / Brazil

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