Mark Simko

Background

About Mark Simko

Principal Solutions Architect. Over thirty three years of IT industry experience. I have proven territory and business management skills and excellent customer relations skills based on my years of technical and sales support experience in the open systems arena. I have led and managed teams and individuals in government, private industry, and educational settings as a Pre-sales Technical Specialist, a Post-sales Technical Specialist, Systems Analyst, Systems Manager, IT Consultant, Systems Administrator, Trainer, and Supervisor. My professional role is to provide the technical skills to support the sale of products, solutions, and services. I conduct pre-sales support for sales specialists, client managers, and customers assisting with technical questions, complex solution set design, system configurations, and IT architecture to develop and deliver system solutions. I am responsible for solution, industry, and competitive knowledge as it relates to the customers and products I am responsible for. I maintain in-depth technical, business, and professional skills enabling me to effectively support the sales process and goals of the business unit. In this role I possess the ability to analyze the customer's technical and business environment articulating the benefits of products and solutions; giving product/solution presentations, answering technical questions and objections; and differentiating specific vendor offerings from competitive alternatives creating customer preference for selected solutions. Specialties: Technical sales and technical support on platform architecture and operating systems.(Various Vendors but not limited to.AWS, Google, Azure, DELL/EMC, IBM, SUN/Oracle, HPE, VMware, Nutanix, Cisco UCS, NetApp, Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, NetApp, Brocade/Broadcom, Microsoft. Converged, Hyper-converged, Cloud). I possess proven qualities of effective communication, planning, scheduling, team work, team building, problem solving, decision making, and training with a positive attitude.