As a Linux Technology Specialist I work with a team of counterparts to cover all pre-sales technical needs in the 13 states of Novell's Midwest area.

Responsibilities:

• Jointly responsible for area linux quota.
• Provide detailed pre-sales technical knowledge transfer to customers, partners and sales reps
• Perform on site Proof of Concept engagements with customers to prove technology capabilities
• Present at events, webinars, trade shows, and industry events on the benefits and capabilities of our products
• Respond to sales requests for onsite meetings and presentations with specific customers
• Build demo environments to demonstrate technologies on site
• Act as an interface between customers and product development

Significant accomplishments:

• Developed midwest wide vitrulization road show demos and presentation
  • iscsi storage
  • Xen virtualization
  • live vm migration
  • cluster setup and failover of vm's and other services
  • multiple systems booting from a single external drive for portability
• Selected as the Open Platform Solutions Business Unit represenative to the Systems and Resource Management Business Unit
• Selected for special training on new ZENWorks Orchestrator product
• Helped to develop internal training for SLES 10 Virtualization class