Resume

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Christopher Crow

chris@ccrow.org


I am a technologist with over 25 years of experience. For the past 5 years, I have been working with containerization, modern application architectures, and Kubernetes. I have a passion for education, cloud technologies, and solution selling while maintaining deep technical expertise. My background has been in consulting and systems engineering, including design, implementation, and training in VMware, storage products, networking, and data protection.

References, further experience, and work samples available on request.

Professional Experience

Technical Marketing Engineer – Portworx by Pure Storage – October 2023 – Current

Technical Marketing Engineer supporting global sales with technical writing, reference architectures and technical learning labs.

  • Authored multiple technical and non-technical articles.

  • Authored reference architectures, including technical validation.

  • Automated and authored learning labs for Red Hat and SUSE products on AWS and GCP.

  • Provided validation and support for alliance relationships with SUSE and Red Hat.

  • Organized community meetups and spoke at industry events,s including Kubecon.

Cloud Architect – Portworx by Pure Storage – July 2022 – October 2023

Senior Sales engineer in the Seattle area supporting multiple account executives to design and support a variety of storage services.

  • Responsible for the technical aspects of the sales cycle, including sizing, compatibility, and customer satisfaction.

  • Organized and participated in community user groups for Kubernetes and modern apps.

  • Participated in designing and delivering Kubernetes education services for Pure employees, partners, and end customers.

  • Provided expertise around Kubernetes, cloud architecture, and modern app development for customers and internal sales teams.

Senior Sales Engineer – Pure Storage – March 2020 – July 2022

Senior Sales engineer in the Seattle area supporting multiple account executives to design and support a variety of storage services.

  • Responsible for the technical aspects of the sales cycle, including sizing, compatibility, and customer satisfaction.

  • Participated in marketing events as a speaker and subject matter expert.

  • Participated in designing and delivering Kubernetes education services for Pure employees, partners, and end customers throughout the United States.

  • Member of the vTeam of experts supporting Ansible, OpenStack, and Kubernetes as a subject matter expert for Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and northern California.

  • Managed proof of concept projects with customers, including container storage projects, SAN projects, and NAS projects

  • Performed non-disruptive array maintenance on mission-critical systems to assist customers and partners.

  • Qualified for the performance club in my first full year of sales.

Senior Sales Engineer – Cohesity – January 2019 – March 2020

Senior Sales engineer in the Seattle area supporting an account executive to design Cohesity backup and NAS solutions.

  • Responsible for the technical aspects of the sales cycle, including sizing, compatibility, and customer satisfaction.

  • Participated in marketing events as a speaker and subject matter expert.

  • Maintained a Cohesity lab used for demos and testing among engineers.

  • Configured Cohesity backup configurations for a variety of cloud and on-premises environments, including Office 365, VMware, MSSQL, Oracle, NAS, and IaaS workloads in the public cloud.

  • Assisted with DRaaS projects with customers.

  • Managed proof of concept projects with customers.

  • Designed and implemented Cohesity NAS configurations for customers.

  • Qualified for the performance club in my first full year of sales.

Senior Solutions Architect – IVOXY Consulting – August 2009 – December 2018

Pre-sales engineer in the northwest supporting account managers to design technology solutions for the full technology stack, including networking, storage, virtualization, software, and servers. In addition, I consulted on cloud infrastructure as a service automation. I was also responsible for designing and teaching training classes.

  • Responsible for technical aspects of the sales process, including designing solutions, product demonstrations, and scoping work for post-sales resources.

  • Worked collaboratively with other solution architects to deliver comprehensive solutions.

  • Designed and led the cloud and automation vertical, which included product evaluations, workshop and training material, and installation documentation for post-sales resources.

  • Responsible for architecting and implementing virtualization, storage, cloud, and networking technologies, including technologies from VMware, Cisco, NetApp, Nutanix, Microsoft, and others.

  • Set company guidelines for various documentation and process standards for other engineers.

  • Maintained relationships and certifications with vendor partners. This included summarizing product updates for the engineering team.

  • Gave talks at industry events (Tech Junction and VMUGs) as well as developed and gave training workshops to provide an overview of a topic in conjunction with the marketing department.

  • Responsible for maintaining lab and training curriculum on VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS, Automation, and other topics.

  • Participated in business strategic planning, including technology direction, staffing, and business objectives.

Additional work history available on request.