Kent Smith
Enterprise Solutions Cloud Engineer @Google
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WORK HISTORY
Enterprise Solutions Cloud Engineer @Google
New York, NY, US
Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, identify key customer technical objections and develop the strategy to resolve technical impediments to transactions• Take responsibility for technical aspects of solutions to include such activities as supporting bid responses, product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and the coordination of supporting technical resources.• Work hands-on with Google for Work\'s Cloud Platform products to demonstrate and prototype integrations in customer/partner environments.• Prepare and deliver product messaging in an effort to highlight Google Cloud Platform value proposition using techniques to include whiteboard and slide presentations, product demonstrations, white papers, trial management and RFI response documents.• Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution providing “best practice” advice to customers to optimize Google Cloud Platform effectiveness.
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ABOUT KENT SMITH
Background features a record of excellence in highly visible, responsible roles requiring a combination of technological expertise, leadership, problem-solving ability and communication skills. Provided exceptional support to world-class corporations and has successfully made the leap from physical datacenter operations to infrastructure as code. Developing skillset in CHEF, AWS OpsWorks and Vagrant. Spinning up and removing an AWS environment via custom CloudFormation stacks. Use of GitHub as code repository and versioning control. Load balancing AWS ELBs between multiple AZs. Use of custom generated policy ACLs for AWS resource control. Currently leading AWS cost-savings initiative and cloud compliance/governance for WPP/Kantar account, among other tasks.Energetic; innovative; results-driven; client-oriented; solution-focused. Enterprise-wide understanding of business processes and operations. Extensive experience in IT hardware, virtualization and application analysis. Expertise in remote systems troubleshooting. Outstanding analytical, interpersonal, organizational, communication and problem-solving skills. Offering the sharp, analytical mind of a top technical problem-solver, the discipline of a corporate manager, and the heart of an entrepreneur. Technologies: Expertise in, AWS, VMware ESXi 4.1, VMware Workstation, JSON editors, PUTTY, Webtrends Analytics, Windows Server, Solarwinds SNMP Monitoring, Splunk log management, Zenoss Monitoring, AWS IAM, CloudHealth, AWS TrustedAdvisor, EC2 Scheduler, Active Directory & Group Policy, WSUS, Outlook Exchange 2003 / 2008, Blackberry Enterprise Administration Console, Shoretel IP Phone System, Symantec and Sophos Antivirus, Symantec Backup Exec, Cisco VPN, Windows OS, FM-200 Fire suppression system, Liebert Cooling Units, APC Datacenter monitoring and surveillance and others. Some familiarity with programming languages: JSON, Ruby, PHP, Perl, Html, and Java.
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