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 e-mail: adilcan at gmail.com

 

 CLOUD / DEVOPS ENGINEER

Experienced Network Cloud Engineer with both technical and sales perspective and have over 20 years’ experience.

I am involved in gathering technical and business requirements and proving architectural design that meets business and technical objectives. It involved building high-level design (HLD), bill of materials (BoMs), input to the scope of works (SoWs), configuration documents, and testing the solutions in the lab environments for education, finance, and manufacturing industries.

I have provided technical engineering and integration support of enterprise network technology projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Mar’19-Now        Advanced Network Management, Phoenix, AZ

Senior Consulting Engineer

• Acts as a technical implementation lead for an assigned project and work closely with the project manager and customer to complete project tasks.
• Generates and implements cloud architectures, follows the project test plan and completes project documentation for the assigned projects.
• Performs analysis of customer’s AWS environment to optimize design and billing strategy.
• Provides third level technical support for cloud technologies to ANM customers.
• Applies analytical skills and technical knowledge to solve product and application problems of low to moderate complexity.

Oct’18-Mar’19        Arbimed, Houston, TX

Cloud Engineer

ArbiMed Inventory is a cloud-based inventory management system specifically designed for medical, dental, and veterinary practices. It is easy to use and provides all of the features you need to manage your supply spending and simplify your purchasing

Jan’16 – Sep’18 Veeam Software, Istanbul, Turkey

Territory Sales Manager

Responsible for achieving revenue quota by selling to prospect and existing customers in ‘’Commercial’’ market segment by teaming up with Inside Sales as well as leveraging Channel and Alliance partners in the most revenue generating territory in Turkey.

  1. Overachieved last 7 quarters, doubled target last 2 quarters with %43 growth YoY
  2. Ranked as #1 sales manager (out of 4) in 2016 & 2017
  3. Expanded account base by 45% during a time when country sales declined by %10.
  4. Ramped up and sold more than +10 projects annually for each new alliances with strong written and oral communications (HpE, Cisco, IBM)

 

May’15 – Jan’16        IBM Global Services, Istanbul, Turkey

Network Solution Architect

Responsible for achieving revenue quota by selling to large account sales (non-IBM Hardware & Software) at Global Technology Services OEM sales.

  1. Provide technical leadership and support for customers in highly complex datacenter environments at Top 100 Enterprise accounts.(Telcos, banking..etc)
  2. Provide pre-sales analysis, design, and recommendations and support for networking solutions focused around, mainly Cisco Route/Switch, Nexus, wireless and Cisco Security (ASA, NG Firewalls, ISE)
  3. Architect and Design Server and Storage Solutions with supporting technologies while maintaining customer’s budget and environment restrictions (IBM, EMC, Cisco UCS, F5, Vmware…etc)
  4. Successfully completed “Global Sales School“ training.

 

Apr’13-May’15       Alcatel Lucent Enterprise, Istanbul, Turkey

Enterprise Sales Manager

Responsible for achieving revenue quota by selling communication and networking solutions to large accounts and finance sector in Turkey.

  1. Overachieved in 2 years consecutively and %25 growth YoY
  2. Selected as “2013 & 2014 Best Achiever” in SEMEA Region.
  3. More than 5 deals successfully signed contracts over +1M$ hardware, software, and solutions
  4. Successfully completed “Target Account Selling“ training from Boston Consultancy Group.

Jan’11-Apr’13        Alcatel Lucent Enterprise, Turkey & Azerbaijan                             

Network Presales Manager

Responsible for achieving revenue quota by selling networking products and solutions in Turkey.

·         Works with Sales Team to develop & implement specific account penetration strategies, produce account specific product & service & sales plans.

·         Successfully builds relationships with the account team, partners & customers in support of sales team objectives & engages & leverages corporate resources, abilities, budgets & personnel as appropriate.

·         Leads technical sales calls and configures Alcatel-Lucent networking and Aruba Wireless solutions to meet customer & sales objectives by presenting solutions with PoC. Completes required presales documentation quickly & accurately

  1. Overachieving in 2 years consecutively and %40 growth YoY.
  2. Closed more than 3 deals successfully over +3M$ product and solutions.

Nov’09-Jan’11   Telcoset, Enterprise Solutions Department, Istanbul, Turkey

Network/Security Solutions Manager

Responsible for managing the presales team and providing presales activities for huge opportunities.

Working closely with the sales team on proposals and pitches for business. Attending meetings with business development managers and acting as a technical expert. Preparing RFP/RFIs and presenting proposals to customers on server, storage, backup, networking and security aspects.

  1. Successfully managing 4 person presales team and add 2 new employers to support needs.
  2. Adding new sales solutions for networking and security

 

Jun’07-Nov’09        Inteltek Internet Tek. IDDAA, IT, Istanbul, Turkey

IT Manager

Responsible for managing 10+ Internal IT team and provide IT Services within the company by managing 15M$+ IT Budget.

Oct’05-Jun’07           Raymond James Securities, IT, Istanbul, Turkey

Assistant Director

Responsible for managing 5+ Internal IT team and adding 2 more IT staff, provide IT Services within the company by managing 8M$+ IT Budget.

Feb’00-Oct’05          Global Securities, IT, Istanbul, Turkey

Network And Security Manager

Responsible for managing network and security team, providing IT Services within the company by managing 20M$+ IT Budget.

Jan’97-Feb’00          Karma International, IT, Istanbul, Turkey

System Administrator

Responsible for managing IT systems to provide services in 29 different countries.

 

EDUCATION

 

2000 – 2004       Yeditepe University  Istanbul, Turkey

MBA Management / Marketing

1995 – 1999      Istanbul University   Istanbul, Turkey

BS in Computer Engineering 

 

SKILLS

 

  • Cloud Platforms : AWS (CI/CD, ECS, EKS, DynamoDB, RDS…), Azure (virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups), IBM Softlayer (beginner)
  • Networking Platforms: Cisco Catalyst/Nexus/ISR/WIFI/ISE, HpE FlexFabric/Aruba, Alcatel-Lucent, Brocade
  • Security Platforms: Cisco ASA/NGFW, NGIPS, Checkpoint, Fortinet, Palo Alto. Cisco Ironport, Barracuda, McAffee, Wireshark, Qualys
  • SIEM Solutions: IBM QRadar, MicroFocus Arcsight, AlienVault
  • Virtualization: Vmware VSphere / SRM/ vRealize NSX(internediate), Hyper-V, Citrix XEN Server
  • Operating System Platforms: Windows AD, DNS, DHCP Management, Linux SME, AIX (basic understanding)
  • Hardware Platforms: HP Proliants/ Blades/Apollo/Storeonce/Simplivity,  Cisco UCS B/C Series, IBM System X/ Blades, Dell Servers.
  • Storage platforms: HP Storage 3Par/MSA, EMC VNX/Unity/DD, Netapp FAS, IBM Storewise/SVC, Cisco/Brocade SAN Switching
  • DB Platforms: MSSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Oracle (Basic)
  • Backup Tools: Veeam, Veritas Netbackup, Avamar, Arcserve
  • Load Balancers: F5 LTM, Netscaler, AWS Elastic Load Balancer
  • Web & Application Servers: Apache Web Server, Tomcat, NGINX, Sun Java Web Server/Application Server.
  • Monitoring and Ticketing Tools: Solarwinds, ManageEngine, Nagios , PRTG
  • Programming Languages: Shell Scripting(mid-level), Python(mid-level), C/C++(basic understanding), SQL

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Amazon AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, Sebtember 2018
  • Amazon AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, Sebtember 2018
  • Veeam Technical Sales Professional – VMTSP, January 2018
  • Veeam Sales Professional – VMSP
  • Cisco Account Manager Advanced Borderless Network Architecture Specialization
  • Cisco Account Manager Cisco ISE & ASA Security
  • Alcatel-Lucent Certified Field Expert (ACFE), September 2015
  • Alcatel-Lucent Certified Pre Sales (ACPS)
  • Alcatel Lucent Certified Sales Representative (ACSR)
  • Vmware Sales Professional
  • Vmware Technical-Sales Professional
  • Cisco CCNA, Cisco Certified Network Associate, December 2006, CSC010480747
  • Cisco CCNP, Cisco Certified Network Professional, December 2006, CSC010480747

 DIGITAL SKILLS

SalesForce, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint.

*Authorized to work for any employer in the US