Stephen Laphen
Technology Partner Architect at IBM
- Role
- Technology Partner Architect at IBM
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Stephen Laphen
Highly motivated, solutions oriented business development professional with technical knowledge and consultative selling skills to target, qualify, close and implement cloud, communications and networking solutions. Masters Degree in Telecommunications EngineeringSpecialties: Broad international experience (US, Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe) Multi-lingual (Native English, Fluent Spanish, Intermediate German, Basic Russian and Polish)Dual US and EU citizenshipVMware, NSX, VSAN, Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP. Data Networking, Cisco, WAN, LAN, Ethernet, IP, MPLS, 4G, 5G, LTE, GPS, LBS, Convergence, Salesforce.com, CCDA, CCDP, data center, wireless, wireline, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Trunking Services, MPLS
Experience
Technology Partner Architect
Jan 2021 — Present · Austin, TX, US
Cultivate relationships with IBM\'s largest Global Strategic Integrator (GSI) partners on both sell-to and sell-through Go to Market motionsPrimary technical pre-sales resource for IBM Public Cloud Platform services, including SAP on Power, IBM Power Virtual Servers, Kubernetes, Red Hat Open Shift, VPC, Backup and Recovery (Zerto & Veeam), VMWare for IBM Cloud as well as traditional IaaS Compute (both Virtual Servers and Bare Metal), Storage and Network technologies
Education
Penn State University
Business / Logistics
Texas McCombs School of Business
BBA, International Business, German Language Focus
Cascia Hall
High School
Southern Methodist University
Master of Science, Telecommunications
2008
Skills
- Is-Is
- Sip
- Atm Networks
- Evdo
- Ip
- Ipv6
- Project Management
- Bgp
- Rpr (Rapid Problem Resolution)
- Ims
- Managed Services
- 4g
- Ethernet
- T1
- Contract Negotiation
- Ospf
- Vendor Relationships
- Cloud Computing
- Salesforce.com
- Cisco Firewall Security
- Private Cloud
- Osi Model
- Requirements Gathering
- Ipv4
- IT Infrastructure Design
- Network Design
- Cdma
- Wireless Broadband
- Crm
- Network Monitoring Tools
- Mpls
- Sonet
- Telecommunications
- Metro Ethernet
- Deep Packet Inspection
- Lte
- Qos
- Tcp/Ip Stack
- Frame Relay
- Solution Selling
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