Sean Weiss

Business Development Engineering Manager (Secure Access & Cloud), Canada @Fortinet

Mentor & motivator, empowering a team of sales engineers.\\\\n» Accountable for team’s hiring, skills development & goal attainment.\\\\n» Advocate & escalation point for assuring customer success.\\\\n» Leadership projects & achievements:\\\\n• Led Canada’s 1st business development engineering team, assisting with field marketing & \\\\nreference architecture design (Secure Access & Cloud).\\\\n• Built territory’s 1st pre-sales engineering team dedicated to public sector.\\\\n• Oversaw creation of 1st user group community to foster customer-led mentorship & success\\\\nwhile building brand awareness.\\\\n• Contributed to the creation of an annual, national training program of excellence for the partner\\\\ncommunity.\\\\n• Joined SFU’s board as liaison/ advisor for the cybersecurity master’s program.\\\\n» Consulting & advising customers on risk management, compliance, incident response, threat hunting, network security & design.\\\\n» Experience securing Operational Technology & Industrial Control customers such as public utilities & municipalities (NERC, IEC62443).\\\\n» Architecture of an integrated zero-trust oriented, layered approach to cyber security, leveraging AI & orchestrated with automation.\\\\n» Promoted to SE Manager in Feb 2019.\\\\n» Promoted to BDE Manager in Apr 2022.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n