Passionate technology entrepreneur with sales, marketing and software development experience seeking an organization and a role that can exploit my international background, business acumen, and technical expertise.
I have worked closely with top-tier customers in financial, healthcare, semiconductor, and manufacturing. I have extensive expertise with consumer mobile applications, network technologies, application development and database platforms, and cloud hosting environments.
Education
Thunderbird School of Global Management
MBA in Global Management – Specialization: Global Marketing
December 2010
- GMAT 710, high-performing undergraduate, international background resulting in tuition scholarship.
- Founder of the Thunderbird Aviation Club.
- Member of the Thunderbird Marketing Association.
- Selected for MBA Marketing internship at Yahoo, Inc. (May – September 2010.)
University of California, Berkeley
BA in Cognitive Science – Specialization: Computational Modeling
May 2003
- Graduated in three years.
- Study of the human brain using computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, psychology and neuroscience.
- Managed IT consulting business during my studies at Berkeley with six elementary school customers.
British School of Paris
Croissy-sur-Seine, France
1989 – 1996
- High quality British-style education in an international environment.
Professional Experience
Nicira Networks, Inc: Stealth-mode Internet cloud virtualization technology.
Product Marketing Manager (2011)
- Directed engineering efforts to accelerate customer adoption of Nicira NVP.
- Uncovered barriers to adoption and assessed competing technologies to develop sales collateral.
Cisco, Inc: Designer and manufacturer of IP–based network communications technologies
Technical Sales Engineer (2007 – 2009)
- Assisted with the launch of flagship data-center products: Nexus 7000, 5000, 1000V, Unified Computing.
- Delivered sales presentations for technical and CxO-level business audiences.
- Incubated sales to $5MM by learning customers’ business requirements, mapping them to Cisco solutions.
- Sold to 26 of Cisco’s top Fortune-500 accounts, establishing key relationships. Exceeded $10MM yearly goal.
- Earned the top two storage networking industry certifications during first five months on the job.
Sales Trainee (2006 – 2006)
- Accepted into highly selective training program based on interviews, test results and professional background.
- Earned the industry’s highest certification for Internet routing to develop technical mastery of network architectures.
Application Developer (2004 – 2006)
- Developed web environment to support tactical operations during natural disasters and in combat zones.
- Deployed global tracking of traveling employees with 98% accuracy using neural-network pattern recognition.
Roman Consulting: Business process and IT consulting
Founder, developer and sales. Part-time after school. (1997 – 2004)
- Developed, marketed and sold web-based information management system to elementary schools.
- Expanded client base to six elementary schools and one medical practice.
Additional Information
Languages: English, French, Italian, German.
Work Authorization: Permanent authorization for Australia, European Union, United States of America.
Activities: Private pilot, instrument and glider-rated. Passionate photographer, skier and mountaineer.
Technical: Cisco CCIE IP Routing & Switching, CCIE Storage Area Networking, SNIA Expert, AJAX, HTML/CSS, Java, PHP, SQL, Oracle, Linux, iPhone/iOS.
Networking: Fiber Channel over Ethernet and WAN acceleration protocols, Storage Area Networking.
