Project Manager Sales
Resume:
TIMOTHY C. LINERUD
Belmont, CA *4002
e-mail: ***@**********.***
Objective:
To provide Pre / Post Sales Systems Engineering for an advanced software or hardware technology company.
Summary:
I have been supporting hardware / software sales and consulting services in a pre and post sales engineer capacity successfully for 13 years working for EMC, Brocade, Agilent Technologies, Digital Island, and Andromedia. The products have ranged from Global File Virtualization and Migrations, VMware P2V and ESX VM Image backup and restore, Internet Services Monitoring, Application Monitoring, Network Device Monitoring, Application Performance Analysis, Network Services, Managed Hosting, Server Co-location, Web Analytics, Network Management Software, Content Distribution Networks (CDN), Linux Clusters and HPC (High Performance Computing), and BURA. Microsoft Exchange, DNS, Active Directory configuration and day to day maintenance experience. Windows 2000, 2003, and 2008 Operating Systems experience as well. Extensive Virtualization experience with ESXi, Hyper-V, and Xen.
Technical Skills Summary: Windows and Red Hat Systems Administration, CIFS and NFS data migrations on NetApp, EMC Celerra, and BlueArc NAS, VMware ESXi Integration, Dell EqualLogic and Compellent Administration, and BURA expertise with EMC Avamar.
Career History:
EMC, Santa Clara, CA Apr 2012 – June 2012
Position: Sr. Solutions Architect. Implementations of Avamar, Data Domain, and Networker for customers in the Western Region. 100% travel to customer sites for installation, configuration, and training of EMC BRS solutions.
Reason for leaving: Position eliminated in a corp re-org
eMeter, a Siemens Business San Mateo CA (Contract) Nov 2011 – Apr 2012
Position: Technical Program Manager for eMeter's Smart Grid Appliance, supporting the world’s leading energy data management software delivered as an appliance on the world’s leading hardware platform.
Dell Inc, Belmont, CA Aug 2010 – November 2011
Position: Jan 2011 – Nov 2011. World W IDM Tiger Team Engineer. Provide hands on installation, best practices, knowledge transfer for Dell’s storage platforms, including Compellent, EqualLogic, PowerVault MD and DX Object Storage platforms.
Reason for leaving: Laid off
Dell Inc, Belmont, CA Aug 2010 – Dec 2010
Position: Pre-Sales Server Specialist providing for Dell Tower, Rack, and Blade Servers for enterprise customers in Northern California. I also supported support for Systems Management software, as well as the C Series cloud servers.
EMC/Norwin Technologies, Santa Clara, CA (Contract) Nov 2008 – Jan 2010
Position: Avamar Practice Consultant. Implementations of Avamar disk based backup solution for customers. Similar responsibilities to EMC Avamar role @ Cisco, listed below. 100% travel to customer sites for installation, configuration, and training of the Avamar solution.
Reason for leaving: My contract wasn’t extended due to Avamar not making their PS utilization numbers for Q4.
Brocade Communications, San Jose, CA Dec 2007 – Oct 2008
Position: Sr. Systems Engineer. Provide in-depth technical pre and post-sales support account teams regarding StorageX operation and deployment, as well as competitive products. Collect customer environmental information required to design and deploy a StorageX solution. Prepare and document infrastructure solutions for the customer and assist in the preparation of Brocade's response to customer RFP. Deliver StorageX solutions in customer’s environment, working with Project Manager to ensure timely completion of all components of the project. These products were Microsoft Windows specific and required extensive Windows AD and DFS knowledge and expertise.
Reason for leaving: Entire Sales and Marketing groups were eliminated.
EMC Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Dec 2006 – December 2007
Position: Avamar Resident @ Cisco. Provide in-depth implementation of Avamar, a disk based backup solution using data de-duplication for Cisco’s “REB” (Remote Engineering Backup) project. Build, configured, and installed approximately 250 servers which comprised approximately 20 clusters, for 12 remote sites, and 2 hub locations for Cisco.
Reason for leaving: Brocade opportunity
EMC Corporation, Santa Clara, CA April 2006 – December 2006
Position: Technical consultant. Provide in-depth technical pre and post-sales support to EMC account teams regarding Rainfinity operation and deployment, as well as competitive products. Collect customer environmental information required to design and deploy a Rainfinity solution. Prepare and document infrastructure solutions for the customer and assist in the preparation of EMC's response to customer RFP. Deliver Rainfinity solutions in customer’s environment, working with Project Manager to ensure timely completion of all components of the project.
Aircraft Technical Publishers, Brisbane, CA (Contract) July 2005 – March 2006
Position: Sr. Systems and Network Engineer. Internal systems and network configuration duties to support internal end users and external customers. Designed and built an offsite data center (365 Main, San Francisco) for DR and distributed deployment, and a CDN for providing PDF and other Aircraft Maintenance Documents to customers using the Akamai service. Wrote scripts to push newly changed documents to the Akamai staging servers for upload. Supported a custom installation of ATP’s software for Citation Aircraft for their own in-house use and deployment. Support for Windows, Linux, and Solaris based servers.
QS Technology, San Jose, CA June 2004 – February 2005
Position: Director of Systems Engineering. Management and Systems Engineering support for Quadrics products for high speed interconnects in the HPC (High Performance Computing) Linux cluster environment.
Accomplishments: Pre and Post sales activities including evaluations, installation, and support of clusters ranging in size from 8 to 1,000. Hands on kernel configurations and installations of the Quadrics software drivers for Red Hat and SuSE Linux distributions. Supported both 32 and 64 bit platforms and Operating Systems (EM64T, Opteron, Itanium, Xeon) for customer requirements. Developed Visio drawings and cable layouts for RFI’s and Quotes. Built a 4 node test cluster to bench-mark HPC applications; Pallas, MPICH, LS-Dyna, Fluent, P-Coms, and pre-qualified compute nodes from Sun, HP, Super Micro, Dell, SGI, and Intel. Pre-sales evaluations with Boeing, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Scyld Computer Systems, Verari Systems, Rackable Systems, and Syracuse University.
Products: Quadrics line of High Performance Network cards and switches.
Reason for leaving: Parent company cancelled funding
Atek Technical Solutions, Dallas TX (Contract) June 2003 – June 2004
Position: Senior Independent Consultant, Western Region. Part time consulting for ATEK’s MSP service monitoring offering, using the Agilent Technologies QoS Manager software. IT outsourcing, consulting, analysis, and Systems and Applications monitoring.
Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto CA October 2000 – June 2003
Position: Senior Technical Consultant. Responsible for pre-sales consulting, proof-of-concepts, and implementations of Network Services Monitoring Solution using Agilent OSS “Quality of Service Manager”. Territory was North America.
Accomplishments: Successfully designed and deployed Internet Monitoring Solutions for Cisco, NEC Systems, Verizon Wireless, and AT&T Wireless. The AT&T Wireless implementation leveraged their existing Casabyte RCATS probes located in 37 North American Regions providing network connectivity into the AT&T Wireless Network. QoS Manager gave AT&T Wireless NRT (Near Real Time) access to this data so they could manage / fix problems areas of their network in a more timely fashion.
Products: Agilent OSS Quality of Service Manager
Reason for leaving: Laid off
Military: United States Air Force, 1981 – 1986 Castle AFB, Merced CA, RAF Bentwaters, UK
Education: University of San Francisco, BS Information Systems Management 1990
Hobbies: Sports Car Racing
References: Available upon request
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