Kent Wilson

About Kent Wilson

I am an expert at building strong customer relationships, seeing their needs from their…

Experience

1. Presales Technical Expert, Object Storage and Cloud Solutions at Hitachi Vantara

   Hitachi Vantara

   Sep 2022 — Present

   I worked with multiple account teams serving large companies across the United States, Latin America (LATAM), and Canada providing technical expert pre-sales expertise to identify customers needs, architect solutions and built relationships.Deep Customer/Partner/Colleague Engagement, Pre-Sales Storage Technologist: • Skilled collaboration towards annual AOP quota of the HCP/Data Intelligence Technical Experts team.• Object Storage Sales Overlay: built trusted partnerships with account teams, partners, customers.• Proficiently uncovered both stated and unstated needs, architected maximum ROI architectures.• Collaborated to analyze and optimize storage cluster to support large, distributed database queries.Architected object storage: Analytics, AI/ML, DB queries, protection for critical data in diverse industries:• Gov\'t Climate Agency: high-speed analytics/parallel file system, data protection/15PB object storage.• Global Financial: protect compliance copy of critical data/13PB of secure object storage per site.• Empowered customer relationships: integral to cross-team resolution of complex technical

Skills

• Management
• Networking
• Marketing
• Disaster Recovery
• Enterprise Software
• Channel Partners
• Saas
• San
• Executive Management
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Business Development
• Hardware
• Solution Selling
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Computer Hardware
• Network-Attached Storage (Nas)
• Channel
• Architectures
• Storage Area Networks
• Product Marketing
• Virtualization
• Cloud Computing
• Nas
• Storage
• Enterprise Storage
• Architecture
• Enterprise IT Infrastructure
• Storage Virtualization
• Product Management
• Pre-Sales
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Technical Support