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About
More than fourteen years of experience in technical sales, pre-sales, business development, architecture design and consulting management of hw/sw areas in multinational companies, leaders in IT/computing (IBM, Sun Microsystems, Storagetek, Hewlett Packard, Compaq Computer, Digital Equipment Corp.) Focus on strategic accounts in Public Sector, Telco, Finance and Industry.
Haves
Virtualization, Systems Integration, IT architecture and consulting, Storage, Backup and restore solutions, Pre-sales, Account management, Sales Specialist, Virtualization (Hyper-V, Vmware, Citrix) and cloud computing, UNIX expert, Hyper-V 2008 R2 configuration and administration, Citrix Certified Administrator, IBM TOP GUN certified, clustering and high availability solution. SAP, Oracle and Dynamics CRM consulting.
Professional Experience
Mar 2010Â -Â Present
Senior consultant
Employed, Professional / Experienced
COLT Technology
Information Technology and Services
5,001 - 10,000 employees
http://www.colt.net
Employed, Professional / Experienced
COLT Technology
Information Technology and Services
5,001 - 10,000 employees
http://www.colt.net
Mar 1995Â -Â Jun 1998
(3 years, 3 Months)
(3 years, 3 Months)
System Specialist
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation
Supporting corporate applications and offering consultancy to business area for customer services department, in delivery and call-handling multi-vendor services. - System management of High Availability systems and real-time environments.UNIX, OpenVMS systems, Storage and clustering environments.
Mar 1995Â -Â Sep 2002
(7 years, 6 Months)
(7 years, 6 Months)
Technical Account Manager
Compaq
Compaq
As a presales technical consultant involved in projects for large accounts in Telco/Utilities and Media Sales Unit. Providing consulting in information systems oriented to business critical and high performance. Colaborating tightly with account managers for offering competitive and customized solutions in that area.
1998Â -Â 2002
(4Â years)
(4Â years)
Presales Consultant
Compaq Computer Corporation
Compaq Computer Corporation
Sep 2002Â -Â Feb 2004
(2Â years)
(2Â years)
Senior Presales Consultant
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Sales/Presales Specialist for Banking on Business Critical Solutions - UNIX and Storage arquitectures.
Team consisting of Finance and insurances sales business unit. Provide consulting in information systems oriented to business critical and high performance – UNIX, high availability and Network Storage Solutions.
Team consisting of Finance and insurances sales business unit. Provide consulting in information systems oriented to business critical and high performance – UNIX, high availability and Network Storage Solutions.
Aug 2004Â -Â Jan 2006
(2Â years)
(2Â years)
Technical Director and Consulting Manager. Co-owner
Pleiades TecnologÃÂa
Pleiades TecnologÃÂa
Giving technological and consulting services, Business Development for Value Channel of Hewlett Packard.
Feb 2006Â -Â Jul 2007
(1 years, 5 Months)
(1 years, 5 Months)
Storage Sales Specialist
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems
- Managing customers Life-Cycle for Public Sector Business Unit as a Sales Specialist of Storage Solutions
- Designing Storage architecture
- Identifying and generating opportunities in customer accounts, offering specialized consultancy in Information Technologies regarding with ILM (Information Lice-Cycle Management): disk and backup solutions, archiving, D2D2T, storage virtualization, storage area networks, etc.
- Designing Storage architecture
- Identifying and generating opportunities in customer accounts, offering specialized consultancy in Information Technologies regarding with ILM (Information Lice-Cycle Management): disk and backup solutions, archiving, D2D2T, storage virtualization, storage area networks, etc.
Nov 2007Â -Â Jan 2009
(2Â years)
(2Â years)
Presales and Consulting Managing Director
Grupo Raxon
Grupo Raxon
Managing IT Projects, technical pre-sales area and business development for the enterprise solutions in the sales department. Solutions are based on systems integration (Hp, DELL), Storage architectures, networking and security solutions (Procurve, Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, Pineapp), virtualization environments (VMWare, Citrix), Microsoft ebusiness solutions (Windows, emailing, databases, web, clustering) and enterprise CRMs, ERPs and Databases (MS, Oracle).
May 2009Â -Â Mar 2010
(1Â years)
(1Â years)
IBM System x Specialist - Business Development Mgr.
Employed, Professional / Experienced
Sole distributor of IBM solutions in the Gulf (Dubai)
Information Technology and Services
Employed, Professional / Experienced
Sole distributor of IBM solutions in the Gulf (Dubai)
Information Technology and Services
Working in Dubai for the main IBM products and solutions distributor
Education
1993
Bachelor, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Computing Science
Computing Science
Marketing Information
Products / Services
Virtualization, Systems Integration, IT architecture and consulting, Storage, Backup and restore solutions, Pre-sales, Account management, Sales Specialist, Virtualization (Hyper-V, Vmware, Citrix) and cloud computing, UNIX expert, Hyper-V 2008 R2 configuration and administration, Citrix Certified Administrator, IBM TOP GUN certified, clustering and high availability solution. SAP, Oracle and Dynamics CRM consulting.
More about Antonio Garrido
First Name
Antonio
Last Name
Garrido
Gender
Male
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