Robert Preston
CI Leader | Former Gartner Analyst | Driving Cloud, Data & Market Strategy
- Role
- Sr Competitive Intelligence Analyst at NetApp
- Location
- Knoxville, TN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Robert Preston
Strategic IT & Competitive Intelligence Leader with 20+ years of experience driving…
Experience
Sr Competitive Intelligence Analyst
May 2021 — Present
Successfully built a network of relationships with functions across company, including corporate strategy, product development, marketing, and subject matter experts.• Created and maintained under SLA competitor profiles, analysis, reports, presentations, and technical deep dive analysis of competitive products.• Published and maintained competitor product battle cards for use by sales and partners.• Published competitive briefs, for vendor conference or significant product announcements covering (executive summary, what was announced, our perspective, customer conversation).• Provided competitor product pricing (Capex, and SaaS) updates and strategy to sales and pricing teams.• Advised the Strategy team and Senior Executives, sharing competitive threats, and strategic opportunities.• Hosted competitive intelligence webcasts covering competitor vendor products or market landscapes to sales and product teams.
Education
University of Phoenix
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Global management
University of South Florida
Bachelor Science Information Technology, Information Technology Management
Kaplan University
Master of Science in Information Technology, Information Technology Project Management
Skills
- Integration
- Windows Server
- Program Management
- Troubleshooting
- IT Strategy
- Active Directory
- Security
- Vmware
- IT Operations
- Itil
- IT Management
- Project Management
- Disaster Recovery
- Requirements Analysis
- Sharepoint
- Process Improvement
- Team Building
- Data Center Architecture
- Data Center Consolidation
- Vmware Infrastructure
- Emc Storage
- System Architecture
- IT Infrastructure Design
- Global Delivery
- Global Strategy
- Project Planning
- Ms Project
- Backup Solutions
- Backup
- Data Center Virtualization
- Process
- Management
- IT Service Management
- Data Center
- Vendor Management
- Solution Architecture
- Virtualization
- Enterprise Software
- Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure
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