User:Stevegaas

Highly experienced hands-on Sales Engineering and Management professional with expertise in a wide range of duties including complex network architecture, problem solving, leadership and customer relations management. Strong technical expertise in network design, architecture and solution integration in Carrier, Metro, Internet and Enterprise networking segments. Strong leadership and management abilities fostered and demonstrated through effective team mentoring and strong account ties with key decision makers.

EXPERIENCE Ixia 1/2006- present Sr. Sales Engineer Responsible for educating customers about protocol deficiencies, network bottlenecks and design issues and effectively demonstrate both problems and resolutions. Focused emphasis on Fortune 500 and network equipment manufacturers, assisting with the design and execution of test plans for nationwide networks and systems. Key focus on proving and maintaining acceptable L4-7 application performance and a high quality of user experience. ♦ 9+ Years of network design in Pre- and Post- sales roles. ♦ Effectively lead a team of Sales Engineers to increase skill sets and foster innovation. ♦ Create capacity planning testing and results for many enterprise applications for management and budgeting purposes. ♦ Produced published training content for Ixia applications and processes. ♦ Assisted in the design and troubleshooting of large scale enterprise networks with a myriad of design requirements including BGP, EIGRP and OSPF requirements to name a few. ♦ Actively tested and proofed that network and system requirements were up to standards. ♦ Earned > $2MM quota from scratch in a brand new territory. ♦ Interfaced with Cisco, Juniper, Nortel, Foundry and Extreme routing and firewall equipment. ♦ Created interoperability documentation on all platforms tested and deployed.

Juniper Networks 10/2005- 1/2006 Sr. Sales Engineer Pre-Sales engineer for Tier-2 carriers in the southwest. Responsibilities included core router support and configuration assistance and troubleshooting, Juniper SSL-VPN product set configuration for service provider networks, and security consulting and education focusing on Juniper’s Netscreen line of firewall products. Routine coordination and conducting of account reviews inclusive of current bug fixes and code releases with projections on maintenance windows and uptime strategies. ♦ Worked with Tier-2 carriers Centurytel, McLeod, Broadwing, etc. designing carrier class networks and systems. ♦ Designed and sold Security solutions to carriers and hosted service providers, to include hosted SSL-VPN solutions and hosted IP-SEC/firewall services for roll-out to nationwide subscriber bases. ♦ Key contact for troubleshooting and deploying McLeod Session Border Control VoIP hosted service enterprise wide. ♦ Key contact for routing strategy and security planning for Centurytel. Provided design assistance and reviews of company driven initiatives. ♦ Troubleshot and resolved protocol interoperability issues between mainly Cisco and Juniper core routing equipment.