Steve Perich

Experience

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  Cisco

  Jun 2005 - Dec 2010

  Solutions Engineer

  Articulated the Cisco collaborative vision to customers and providing clear value propositions around Cisco Webex and UC portfolio of solutions. Provided enablement and guidance to partners and internal staff from various cross-functional business units on technical aspects of the Webex sales cycle and deployment models.

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  CA Technologies

  Dec 2010 - Jul 2015

  Senior Presales Consultant - Enterprise Management

  CA Technologies is a global vendor of software that fuels IT transformation for companies. During my tenure I was a technical specialist in a portfolio of CA Service Assurance products including Unified Infrastructure Management (formally known as Nimsoft Monitor), Application Performance Management (APM), App Synthetic Monitor and Mobile Application Analytics (MAA) for the Australia and NZ region. Day to day activities range from qualification, sales strategy, demonstrations, POC/POV activities, engaging in public forums on business value of our solution, providing domain expertise to new and existing customers, involvement in customer loyalty programs and much much more. Show less

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  Palo Alto Networks

  Oct 2015 - Feb 2017

  Sales Engineer

  As the next-generation security company, Palo Alto Networks are leading a new era in cyber-security by safely enabling all applications and preventing advanced threats from achieving their objectives for tens of thousands of organizations around the world. My role at Palo Alto Networks was that of a technical presales consultant working with sales teams across the European, Middle East and Africa theatre and specialising in next-generation Firewalls, threat intelligence, sandboxing CASB and endpoint security solutions. Show less

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  Cogent Limited

  Feb 2017 - Nov 2017

  Sr Networking Security Specialist

  An ICT solutions and communications company, Cogent is a 100% independent and privately held New Zealand business. During my time at Cogent I was responsible for delivering and maintaining Palo Alto Networks, Sonicwall and Symantec solutions to customers and securing the Cogent Auckland and Hamilton data centres.

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  Westcon-Comstor New Zealand

  Dec 2017 - Apr 2019

  Security Presales Consultant

  At New Zealand’s leading distributor of technology solutions, I was responsible for four key security brands: Symantec, Palo Alto Networks, Bitglass and Check Point. My role was to enable partners to successfully win business in this vendor portfolio as well as provide value add presales / professional services to clients who do not have internal resources to complete projects.

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  Fortinet

  Apr 2019 - now

  Systems Engineer