Patrick Benson

Patrick Benson

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Helping customers manage and protect their data and systems from threats both known and unknown.

  • Education

    • Walden University

      2014 - 2016
      Master of Science (M.S.) Communication

      http://www.waldenu.edu/masters/ms-in-communication

    • National-Louis University

      2001 - 2003
      BA Behavioral Science

      Although tech is my career, what I learned at National-Louis centered on people and how they interact with one and other. My education gives me an advantage by allowing me to take a step back from the technical side to focus on what the user is experiencing. You create a better design if you put the user experience first and then address the technical concerns with a satisfied user experience as your primary goal.

  • Experience

    • Trading Technologies

      Apr 1999 - Apr 2012

      TT was a great company to work for. I moved steadily forward with my career while there and I am lucky that I was part of a rather cutting edge environment at TT to keep my skills sharp with.

      • Senior Systems Engineer

        Dec 2006 - Apr 2012
      • Sr. Systems Engineer Test Environment

        Oct 2005 - Dec 2006
      • TTNET Technician

        Jan 2003 - Oct 2005
      • Director - Internal Services

        Jun 2001 - Jan 2003
      • Technical Team Leader

        Oct 2000 - May 2001
      • System Support Administrator

        Apr 1999 - Oct 2000
    • Sentinel Technologies

      Jun 2012 - Jan 2014
      Solutions Architect, Data Center Designs

      I presented, designed, and provided project leadership to implement solutions for customers as a pre-sales resource.

    • Atlantis Computing

      Jan 2014 - Jul 2014
      Systems Engineer

      My role is to provide technical expertise wherever it may be needed, and to aid the sales team through presenting Atlantis Computing's highly advanced and game changing storage virtualization solutions to both customers and partners. Feel free to contact me to learn more about how Atlantis Computing's software can lower your storage costs while at the same time improving your infrastructure's overall performance.

    • Coho Data

      Jul 2014 - Dec 2015
      Principal Sales Engineer

      As a Principal Sales Engineer my role is to educate prospective and current customers on how Coho Data's software defined storage solution leverages software defined networking to provide the ultimate in web-scale storage.

    • Nimble Storage

      Jan 2016 - Jun 2018
      Sr. Sales Engineer

      I have the privilege of working with customers and learning about their business needs. I then size and design the correct Nimble Storage solution, so that my customers can take advantage of Nimble's unique cache accelerate storage offerings. The best part of my job is working side-by-side with customers to design, deploy, test and verify that the proposed Nimble solution is the right fit for their needs.

    • Rubrik, Inc.

      Jun 2018 - May 2019
      Sales Engineer

      I design solutions for customers who need more than just a typical backup solution, but instead want a simple solution for migrating data seamlessly to various cloud provider services using advanced analytics to obtain the best performance from their infrastructures. Having near zero recovery times, immutability from ransomware, and deep cost savings makes Rubrik the smart choice when it comes to data management.

    • Sayers

      Jun 2019 - Oct 2021
      Sr. Architect, Business Continuity

      My mission is to ensure that every client that I work with has a thorough understanding of how they will execute their disaster recovery solution if the need ever arises. Through cooperative planning with other Sayers specialists and architects I design complete business continuity plans for our customers. This means going beyond just finding the right products for an organization's needs; Customers need partners who will provide a complete solution including training on how to initiate failover, verify that essential operations are fully functional, and when and how a failback operation should take place once a disaster has subsided. Business continuity isn't just about how you handle the present disaster facing your organization, but how you ensure your organization's future no matter what past disasters it encountered. Show less

    • Veeam Software

      Oct 2021 - now

      My role is focused on making sure my customers are proactively protected from the many potential forms of disruption that threaten organizations today. By combining the many features of Veeam Software's solutions with other components of a customer's infrastructure we can prevent outages and recover from disasters faster. Reach out to me if you wish to learn more, and I look forward to sharing more about how Veeam can help you build a more resilient organization!

      • Senior Systems Engineer

        Jan 2023 - now
      • Systems Engineer

        Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • VMware Sales Professional 2015 (VSP 2015)

      Apr 2015
    • VMware Sales Professional 5.5 (VSP 5.5)

      Oct 2014
    • VMware Technical Sales Professional - 5.5 Foundation Accreditation

      VMware Partner University
      Oct 2014
    • NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator

      CertMetrics
      Nov 2012
    • Nimble Technical Sales Professional

      Nimble Storage
      Mar 2016
    • Linux Essentials

      Linux Professional Institute
      Oct 2018
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    • TechSmith Camtasia 2020 Explorer

      TechSmith Corporation
      May 2020
      View certificate certificate
    • VMware Certified Associate 6 - Data Center Virtualization (VCA6-DCV)

      VMware
      Jul 2015
      View certificate certificate
    • Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute

      Business Continuity Institute (BCI)
      Sept 2019
      View certificate certificate
    • Nimble Sales Professional

      Nimble Storage
      Mar 2016