Jake Goheen

Experience

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  Gannett Newspapers

  Apr 2004 - Nov 2006

  Designer II

  Direct contact with clients on a daily basis, learned phone skills and customer satisfaction.Ad-Creation. Responsible for daily, weekly, and monthly sections in the newspaper as well as internal printing jobs from other sources. Pagination, Tone digital photographs for print according to the Gannett Optimum Quality Procedure. Updating online sites. Work with production to set plates for press. Relationships with Ad Sales, Online Sales, Managers, and Directors.

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  The ADAM Group

  Nov 2006 - Jun 2007

  Designer / Art Director

  Created recruitment pieces and strategies for a Business to Business platform.Produced and maintained branding guidelines for clients. Work closely with marketing development for creation of Direct Mailing pieces. Trouble-shoot and resolve quality issues in a timely manner.

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  Nationwide Studios

  Feb 2008 - May 2009

  Designer

  Worked closely with Customers as well as Marketing Directors and Vice Presidents to develop all marketing collateral as well as forms and any projects needed. Focused on delivering my ideas and ‘pitching’ them to clients in meetings and conference settings. Developed Marketing Campaigns, Direct Mail, Online Promotions, Corporate Newsletter and Advertisements.

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  Dell

  Jan 2009 - May 2016

  In the Channel Partner side of Dell I work with very large deployments of enterprise hardware. Speaking with Businesses and IT professionals, helping them improve their existing architecture or a complete refresh of their datacenter. Typical conversations include planning data growth to size servers, troubleshoot networking and discuss differences in storage arrays.Virtualization certified (VMware and HyperV)VeeamSymantecEquallogicCompellentPowervault (MD)Switching (core, top of rack, aggregate, layer 1-2-3)Basics of cloud infrastructure (open stack)WAN AccelerationSAASPAAS Show less Covering top spend NYC accounts, maintaining both a technical lead and pre-sales Engineer position. Customer meetings, Demo's, Whiteboard sessions, Build-Center visits, and Knowledge transfers.I act as a Pre-Sales Engineer to scope, size, simplify and deploy complex solutions.My areas of expertise include Converged Systems, Software Defined Storage, Networking, Traditional Storage, as well as Data Analytical Hardware.I am utilized frequently as a resource for in-depth competitive situations.Further responsibilities include the management of our team including members both inside and outside of the building.Further certifications of products include Equallogic, Compellent, Force10, Powerconnect, Poweredge, VMware, MSFT, Citrix, Most other top-tier Storage Vendors and a host of 3rd party WAN Accel products. Show less

  • Storage Subject Matter Expert

    Apr 2013 - May 2016

  • Server and Storage Specialist - Channel Partners

    Aug 2009 - May 2016

  • Advanced Solution Datacenter Sales

    Jan 2009 - Mar 2016
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  Tegile Systems

  Mar 2016 - Jan 2018

  Sales Engineer

  Supporting TN, TX, AR, OK, LA. Scoping storage needs, providing technical resources and best practices, customer facing demos and whiteboard sessions.

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  Western Digital

  Jan 2018 - Mar 2020

  Sr. solution engineer

  Tech startup Tegile purchased by WD, expanded roles and responsibilities to include new territories and become the Sr Team Lead for the Southeast group of Datacenter Storage Sales.

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  IBM

  Mar 2020 - now

  Focused on supporting the entire SouthEast, (all sizes and verticals) I Develop and deliver both presentations and training to Business Partners, IBM Sales and Engineers, and of course in-person with our Customers. Prepare configurations and live demonstrations of the various IBM Storage Software Solutions.OpenShift and AI/ML, S3 utilization as well as GPFS (Fusion, Scale, Cloud Object) are where I focus my efforts. Known for being able to explain complex solutions easily and understandably while showcasing the financial impact/reduction to both the C-Suite and Admins alike. Show less

  • Senior Subject Matter Expert- Storage Software

    Jul 2022 - now

  • Senior Technical Specialist - Storage Systems

    Mar 2020 - Jul 2022