Client Technical Specialist Resume
Portland, OR
SUMMARY:
Client - focused IT professional driving sales and customer satisfaction targets by working closely with sales teams in demonstrating optimal technical product / service solutions that meet client business requirements. Known for achieving award-winning results and selected to participate in high-visibility technical / sales training programs. Knowledgeable in all facets of large-scale enterprise computing across manufacturing, retail, financial, distribution, and healthcare. Experience in cultivating strong client relationships and delivering large-scale implementation projects in Unix environments on time and to client specification.
EXPERTISE IN:
Technical Sales | Enterprise Computing | Customer Service ManagementTechnical Troubleshooting | Solutions Selling | System Enhancements Product Technical Training | Project Management | Performance Management
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Languages: perl, csh, ksh, bash, c, HTML
Platforms: AIX, Linux, PowerVM, HMC, WPAR
Applications: SAP, SAP Hana, Epic, Catia, PeopleSoft
Databases: Oracle, DB2, Caché, Opensource Databases
Tools: PowerVC, NIM, nmon, LPM, PowerHA, SSP, SMIT, LVM, TCP/IP
Servers: POWER8 and earlier, PureSystems, SUN, DEC, RS/6000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Portland, OR
Client Technical Specialist
Responsibilities:
- Provided comprehensive pre-sales technical support for a wide range of customers.
- Traveled onsite to understand client requirements and recommend products and services.
- Increased sales of new technology by working closely with sales, product development, and customer management stakeholders, facilitating lunch-and-learn meetings, gathering customer requirements, and promoting new technology as optimal solutions.
- Led proof of concept / proof of technology projects by demonstrating new technologies for customers, promoting features and enhancements, and driving new sales.
- Increased performance 10-fold and saved millions of dollars annually in fraud loss by leading proof of concept fraud detection project for a large telecom company.
- Drove customer satisfaction targets by liaising with customer stakeholders and internal teams in performing root cause, identifying resolutions, and minimizing downtime to customer work flow.
Confidential
Senior IT Specialist / Architect
Responsibilities:
- Managed a wide range of projects to install and upgrade Confidential technology for customers.
- Delivered multiple projects concurrently by working with customers and internal teams through lifecycle management to ensure customer requirements and deadlines were consistently met.
- Ensured customer satisfaction by troubleshooting and resolving simple to complex issues to minimize disruptions, recommending feature enhancements, and communicating progress / change to key stakeholders regularly.
- Selected to take part in Confidential ’s Accelerated IT Architect training program, an intense 12-month curriculum designed to increase Architect population within Confidential .
- Delivered large data warehouse implementation project for JCPenney, a 40-terabyte environment based on AIX, PowerHA, and DB2 EEE on time and to customer specification by serving as Data Administrator within large cross-functional team on one of the largest implementations at that point.
Confidential, Portland, OR
Senior Systems Programmer
Responsibilities:
- Implemented and administered a distributed computing environment developed for Confidential engineers.
- Led high-visibility migration project for engineering / design of Catia CAD environment to AIX workstations.
- Integrated distributed filesystem and security (DCE/DFS), one of the first of a kind.
Confidential, Burlington, VT
Systems Programmer
Responsibilities:
- Deployed and administered diverse operating systems and networks.
- Managed campus Help Desk and provided consultative services.