I have held a number of sales engineering and management positions with some successful companies. As a technical sales specialist I have an unique approach to problem solving, solution selling both from a technical and business perspective. I find it very easy to explain how technical features can meet business requirements.
Cloudreach provides service and support around the integration of cloud based services including Amazon Web Services, GoogleApps and Salesforce.com Cloudreach is a leading Cloud Computing Consultancy firm in the UK and Benelux and is a top tier partner of Google Enterprise, Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com. We provide a superior depth and breadth of knowledge on all 3 platforms and have undertaken projects including several global rollouts of Google Apps as well as full data centre migrations to the AWS EC2 platform.
Black Lab provides consultancy services to companies, teams and everybody that develops great software products. We help our customer with improvement of their software and product development so they can better meet their customer demands and react quickly to market opportunities.
As senior pre-sales consultant responsible for pre-sales activities for BlueCat Networks in Benelux, Nordics & South Africa. Provided pre-sales support to customer and partners throughout the region with technology presentations, seminars, solution architecture sessions. Team leader of Pre-sales team in Europe. Pre-sales team provides pre-sales support in all BlueCat Networks offices in Europe. As Team leader provided support and weekly updates to the pre-sales team. Provided accurate pre-sales updates on big accounts to Vice President Sales Europe.
In his role of technical manager EMEA, I was responsible for all pre-sales (SE), training and onsite support activities for all customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa (12 FTE). I helped the company grow its yearly EMEA revenue from $0 to $35 mio in 3 years. As the first pre-sales consultant in EMEA I helped win early customers in the airline, automotive, retail, finance and energy industry. In his role as technical manager EMEA I was the hiring manager for all technical people and managed the system engineering team in EMEA, created the EMEA RMA program and EMEA training program as part of the worldwide field enablement team.
As security consultant I worked on different projects. Ranging from technical implementation, technical design architecture, design validation and troubleshooting of network security environments. Biggest achievement: Successfully operating in the multi-cultural and multi-language environment at a car manufacturer european headquarter.
Co-founded of Pronoc in 1999, Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP). Responsible for creation and delivery of managed security services. Company was sold to Internoc in 2000. Took position of technical director at Internoc after acquisition. As technical director I was responsible for Network Operating Centre (24x7x365) and MSSP portfolio product management.
As Product Manager I was responsible for the security product portfolio: Finding new security products; Positioning products & solutions with resellers and customers and pre-sales support on products and solutions. Dedicated contact person for managing vendor relationships.
Supporting account managers in pre-sales to mostly government and financials
Technical co-Founder of Netco. Company specialized in network security. I was responsible for technical delivery of security solutions.
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