John Rohrer

John Rohrer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Customer Driven Sales Maker l Collaborator l AI Platform Specialist l Datacenter Enthusiast with focus on Security, and Edge to Cloud Solutions l Husband & Father of Amazing Athletes l World Explorer

  • Education

    • The University of Texas at Austin

      1995 - 1997
      Advertising
    • Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

      1997 - 1999
      Bachelor of Arts Marketing

      Activities and Societies: Graduated with 3.4 GPA Founding member of the American Advertising Federation Student Chapter Worked as Marketing representative at a promotional company through college. - Developed marketing campaigns to increase demand - Built client relationships to gain access to large events - Helped to win back largest client in local area - Beach to Bay 1999

  • Experience

    • Dell Technologies

      May 2003 - Sept 2007

      • Systems Consultant of the Quarter – Q1CY07• Converted Fairfax 800 server opportunity from HP to Dell through VMWare workshop• Developed Datacenter solutions for the largest employers in Australia (Fairfax Digital, Westfield, Woolworths, Hudson Recruiting, Michael Page, Optus)• Overachieved EMC sales target and Enterprise Software quota 4 out of 4 quarters• Attained 176% of quota / $7.2 Million in Q1CY07 with 1003 Server Units sold •Asked to move to Dell Australia to broaden knowledge of global markets•Q3CY05 overall sales attainment of 130 percent•Converted 23 Customers’ Line of Business to Dell in 1 quarter•Largest deal in Division – Talent2; $930K incl. 2 SANs replicated with 24 servers •Achieved annual blended attainment of 103 percent•Active Oracle Subject Matter Expert – worked with cross functional groups to increase Oracle sales and awareness •Largest Blade deal in Dell – Seisent; Q4CYO4 = $1.7 Million, 470 units•Mentored and trained Inside Sales Reps to help transition to technical role

      • Systems Consultant

        Feb 2006 - Sept 2007
      • Senior Technical Solutions Rep

        May 2005 - Feb 2006
      • Senior Technical Solutions Rep

        May 2003 - May 2005
    • Sigma Solutions

      Jan 2007 - Jan 2008
      Enterprise Solutions Sales

      • Chosen for EMC Pilot role in Austin working directly as EMC Partner Resource• Leverage other Tier 1 partnerships through Cisco, VMware, SUN, and Quantum• Grew incremental opportunities for Sigma from 3 to 15 in 4 months• Qualified, Designed, Architected, and Pitched complex storage solutions

    • LSI, an Avago Technologies Company

      Mar 2008 - Jun 2011
      Business Development Executive - DELL CAM

      • Achieved Highest Performance Rating last 2 years in role – Outstanding (top 5%)• Managed the OEM Relationship between LSI and Dell for 67% of Americas Revenues• Grew Technical Sales Rep Participation Rate by 30% (Average units per TSR)• Developed Oil & Gas Practice and generated $17M incremental Pipeline in 6 months• 127% Attainment in CY10; Grew Dell revenues from $13M to $17M• Managed and Nurtured Strategic Relationships at Marquis Accounts: Rackspace, CGGVeritas, and The Planet yielding more than $9M in Revenues per year.• Leader in Collaborative Partner Development Programs, Sales Enablement, Field Awareness, and Strategic Solution Alignment with Dell Show less

    • Kaminario

      Jun 2011 - Oct 2012
      Global Channel Account Manager

      • Manage Dell S&P , Sales and PG Relationship Globally; Outlook for 1st year => $1M• Built Channel Program from Ground Up to target top Large VARs across US• Planned and Executed Multi-Partner Roadshow which yielded 28 new customers• Channel, Technology Partner and End User Focus to grow all routes to market

    • VIOLIN Systems

      Oct 2012 - Jan 2016
      Global Business Development

      My Goal is to Grow and Manage the Sunbelt Region to empower and enable Partners with the leading Flash Array Storage System in the market. Violin's unmatched high performance, low latency, high density, easy to implement, direct and network connected silicon Memory Arrays provide application acceleration to Databases such as Microsoft SQLServer, Oracle, DB2, MySql, Datawarehouses, CRM, VDI, ERP, Email, analytics applications and hundreds of other core enterprise applications. Violin's Memory Arrays are the key to unlocking full data center virtualization, leading to the construction of high performance public/private Clouds based on an open solution architecture. Simply stated, Violin’s Memory Arrays offer customers technology that: • Reduce Latency • Increase Server Utilization • Provide Linear Scalability • Reduce Overall Storage “TCO” Please contact me to learn more and review our TCO Calculator. Show less

    • 联想

      Jan 2016 - Oct 2023
      ISG (Infrastructure Solutions Group) Sales Executive - Datacenter

      Customer Ambassador for Lenovo with a Cloud First Strategy -- Promoting Solutions and Platforms focused on Convergence, Scale, Optimization, Performance and Cost Reduction in the Datacenter.- Solution Seller of the Year - FY21

    • AMSYS Innovative Solutions, LLC

      Oct 2023 - now
      Vice President - Enterprise Sales
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Veeam Sales Professional Certification

      Veeam Software
      Mar 2020
    • VMware VSP - HCI

      VMware
      Mar 2020
    • VMware VSP - VCF (Cloud)

      VMware
      Mar 2020
    • VMware VSP Foundation

      VMware
      Mar 2020
    • Lenovo Certified DataCenter Sales Professional

      Lenovo
      Apr 2021
    • Nutanix NPSR 5.0

      Nutanix
      Jun 2017
    • VMware Sales Professional Foundation 2017

      VMware
      Jul 2017