Paul Richards

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ABOUT PAUL RICHARDS

I am a Pre-Sales Solutions Architect with 25 years experience designing solutions to meet customer requirements. I create bills or materials, internal quotes, high level designs and technical responses in RFP documents to enable Account Managers to provide customers with a detailed quotation.Experience with engaging with customers to discuss technical requirements and gather information to enable any proposal to accurately meet the customers business and technical needs. This also includes presenting the proposal to customers at both a technical and \"C\" suite level.Some of the of the larger opportunities I have worked on are detailed below.Cisco Connected Stadium High Density Wi-Fi Solutions for 2 x Premier League Football Clubs, A large Rugby Stadium in England and O2 Arena in London.LAN & Wi-Fi solution design, Bill of Materials and high level design for one of the top 4 UK supermarket chains.Cisco Meraki Multi Site Wireless and LAN solutions for construction, online retail, hospitality & commercial businesses.Cisco & Cisco Meraki Wireless Solutions for warehousing and distribution centres.Secure Wireless solution for UK Police Forces.Designed and Project Managed a 1200 seat UC and LAN role out for a large defence contractor.Designs for 5 Building Schools for the Future projects as well as 40 primary schools.Design and bid work for 2 large PFI defence projects.Secure Wireless Networks for Defence.Previously held SC Clearance for several years but this has now lapsed due to current company deciding not to maintain.Specialties: Cisco Switching, Cisco Wireless LAN, Cisco Meraki CMNA & Meraki Master.Cisco Blackbelts:Enterprise Networking Stage 1 2023 - Cisco Prime Migration Pre-Sales, Cisco DNA Pre-Sales, Cloud Management-Catalyst Pre-Sales, DNA Spaces Pre-Sales, Enterprise Agreement Pre-Sales, SD-WAN Pre-Sales, Switching Pre-Sales, Wireless Pre-Sales.Meraki Presales Stage 1 & 2 2023Meraki Fit Level 1 & 2