Clay Burkle

About Clay Burkle

I am obsessed with my Customer success. I thrive on building strategic partnerships with my customers. This starts with understanding their mission and blockers to success. By showing up on a regularly basis with a curious mind, I find that together we can a path forward. With 20 years of experience in Enterprise IT selling I bring the necessary experience and thought-leadership to my customer engagements. I work hard to build the trust necessary to work through the difficult challenges that often come. I believe \"you win with people\"(Woody Hayes). I work hard to listen, observe and encourage people to do their best and to always be getting better. Today’s workplace is more diverse and dispersed than ever before. It requires a new level of empathy and understanding and communication skills, in order to build teams with sustained excellence. There is nothing more satisfying then seeing someone on my team achieve great success and giving them the credit they deserve.I am intentionally optimistic and I believe in \"The Happiness Advantage\"(Shawn Achor). No matter how tough things are I always believe they could be worse and probably will get better. So daily I choose the better path… joy. Maybe this came from my days as a high-school or college wrestler. Or maybe from days of coaching. But I look for positives to build on and always believe we perform at our best when we have an optimistic outlook in any situation.

Experience

1. Ww Leader, Gcp Customer Success

   NetApp

   May 2025 — Present · Dayton, OH, US

   Leading a team of 10 NetApp Cloud Customer Success Managers & Engineers who are committed to helping GCP Customers derive business value from NetApp storage technologies within GCP (GCNV, CVO). We are obsessed with our customers success!

Education

• Dallas Theological Seminary

  ThM, Educational Leadership

  2000 — 2004

• Bucknell University

  BSCE, Civil Engineering

  1990 — 1994

Skills

• Management
• Team Building
• Networking
• Hp
• Storage Area Networks
• Managed Services
• Channel Partners
• Data Center
• Solution Selling
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Vmware
• Sales Management
• Product Management
• Sales
• Channel
• Professional Services
• Business Continuity
• Cloud Computing
• Multi-Channel Marketing
• Team Leadership
• Vmware Infrastructure
• Vmware Server
• Selling
• Disaster Recovery
• Vmware Esx
• Cisco Technologies
• Leadership
• Account Management
• Salesforce.com
• Virtualization
• Pre-Sales
• Vdi
• Infrastructure
• Saas
• San
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Software Industry
• Direct Sales
• Information Technology