Steven Kirks
What you should know:
I have been a professional sales engineer for 16 years, consistently moving with companies that pioneer within their field or technology. I have built new processes and training curriculum for my position and written standards of practice for design and implementation. I am comfortable with data center design, hardware virtualization and large Cisco networks. I can speak to an owner or CEO to match business drivers to technology in a way that speaks equally to all knowledge levels.
Sales and product knowledge for: VMware, NetApp,Juniper, SonicWALL, Adtran
Previous experience with basic management of Microsoft Windows Server, Linux, Solaris, MySQL
Conceptual Design Skills: Design data centers from VMware clusters, with SAN appliances plus integration and backup/failover strategies.
Work History:
9/2008 – Present
Central Region – MO/KS/MI/IN
Senior Post Sales Engineer
Duties: Design and manage the implementation of projects including cloud services, data center design (local and remote), local- and wide-area networks, telephony systems and network security. Assist sales staff with solution development then manage projects post-sale including scheduling resources, ordering products and equipment and delivering training to staff and end-users as required. Regional subject matter expert for ShoreTel telephony, Adtran Bluesocket wireless, Ruckus Wireless and Avaya IP Office.
Details: Designed and sold $750,000 worth of equipment and network in the first 12 months with the company plus the two largest equipment sales in district office in the last 5 years. Designed and tested some internal engineering tools.
9/2006 – 8/2008
DaZZee Integrations
Springfield, MO
Design Engineer
Duties: Design and coordinate the installation of advanced networks, servers, network storage, firewalls, content filters.
Details: Work with customer staff and management to design and implement solutions for local- and wide-area networks, data centers, server/application infrastructure and shared storage. Created processes for the design bill of materials and engineering review. Helped to write template for a project scope of work.
11/1999 – 9/2006
NuVox Communications
(Windstream)
Springfield, MO
Sales Engineer
Duties: Design and coordinate the installation of voice and data networks for small and medium size business customers.
Details: Awarded President’s Club – 2000. Work with customers to transition voice and data services to NuVox services. Design training courses for new sales employees and conducted company-wide new hire training from 2000-2001.
Memberships
Association of Information Technology Professionals, Graduate of Leadership Springfield Class XVIII, City of Springfield Cable Advisory Commission, City of Springfield Traffic Advisory Board, and 5 year volunteer at Ozarks Public Television
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