Sean Hull CCIE 2052
Principal System Engineer & Sr. Storage  Product Manager
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Professional Background
Sr Network, Application and Storage Engineer
Amber Road
June 2014 – Present
Design and Performance engineering of the Network, Application and Storage tiers.

Equipment Cisco, Juniper,F5, Bluecoat, and the coffee machine.. :)

Some customers include:
Cisco, Apple, GE, Boeing, Honeywell, Kraft, Pfizer, Qualcomm, Levis, GlaxoSmithKline, Walmart, Dell and many more.

Technical responsibilities:
Networking requirements for Application Role out
High availability and disaster recovery multinational site design
F5 LTM and GTM implementation and design
Network Management
  Security
  Documentation / Discovery
  End point to end point
  SNMP view
  Change management
  L4-7 Monitoring
Network architecture reviews
      Data Center switching
      Data Center IPS
      Data Center firewall
        Data Center Routing (EIGRP, BGP, MPLS)

WAN optimization
Integrated Storage/Application and Networking(Cisco Nexus and SAN)
Integrated SAN/NAS/Networking
Principal System Engineer & Sr. Storage  Product Manager
LoadDynamix
February 2011 – Present
Sr. Storage  Product Manager and Principal Systems Engineer, Raleigh, NC (March 2011-Present)
Storage Testing Sr. Product Manager, Sr. Product Systems  Engineer and interoperability and performance expert. Specializing in SwiftTest’s datacenter & storage testing markets (FC/FCOE/CIFS/NFS2-4.1/iSCSI/SMB3/SMB2/CIFS) Test methodologies include Virtual Storage and access, VDI testing, storage burn-in, storage design, performance(IOPS, connections, throughput), security(Login Denial of Service and fuzzing), network validation, and storage and HTTP application testing. Drove the L2-7 solution design validation testing in areas of datacenter switching (FC/FCOE), application, network and security performance, functional conformance, and functional security testing. Started/Led the strategy for SwiftTest sales in Enterprise software and hardware which led to increased sales growth by many orders of magnitude.

Helped our sales expand to a record quarters
Landed fastest turn around for any sale
Landed first 7 digit deal.
Landed first Enterprise deal
First to Sell/define Fiber Channel products
First to Sell/define LAN/SAN solution
Pioneered the last 5 major products.
Sr. Product Manager for Data Center Networking, Application and Security technologies
Spirent Communications
July 2008 – January 2011
Datacenter wins:
Creating new product and taking market share through aggressive strategy and marketing and sales tactics.. Specializing in Data Center technologies and Application testing. Increased market share from 5 Million to 40 Million in one year.
Sr Product Marketing Engineer
Spirent
May 2003 – July 2008
Specialized in the sale and business development efforts of Avalanche application, network and security testing, resulting in a direct impact adding 25% in sales year over year, directly involved or closed personally. Created the differentiation and technical leadership for the product through competitive testing and customer demos.

Led the acquisition of ThreatEx resulting in Spirent being the leader in penetration and vulnerability security testing for all network equipment manufactures like Cisco, Juniper, Foundry, Extreme, F5 etc...
Product Manager
Spirent Communications
2003 – 2005
See above PME at Spirent for the details of this job as I did both.
Product Management & Marketing Management
WinCom Systems
June 2001 – June 2004
Managed Product Management, Marketing, Branding, demo lab, and personally ran external proof of concept tests. Led sales training and support of WinCom product features, benefits, implementation and competitive positioning. Created and led several training sessions on implementation, configuration and networking design. Worked with eTesting labs to create WinCom’s first independent tests and methodology. Created the Executive Business Briefing Center. Ran multiple tradeshows and demonstrations. Developed onsite demonstrations. Wrote Request for Information (RFI) response for CNN. The RFI gave WinCom Systems a position to test in the CNN infrastructure. Wrote papers on server load balancing, compression, caching, server acceleration, and storage concepts and benefits. Installed, supported and configured IXIA Ixload test tool, ANVL (TCP and Routing), WinCom System, Local Directors, Cisco Content Switching line, Extreme Routing and switching, Foundry Networks Routing Switching and SLB.
Sr Product Marketing Engineer
Cisco Systems
May 1995 – May 2001
Product managed and led training in the areas of server load balancing, caching, Layer 2-7 switching, networking design, and architectural competitive weaknesses. The products include all Catalyst 4000, 5000, 6000, 6500, 7500 and 8500 product lines. In addition to Local Director SLB, Arrowpoint SLB, Firewall load balancing.

Created talks at Cisco Networkers on testing multilayer switches and understanding switching architectures.

Filed for four separate patents regarding a N+1 state TCP machine, TCP offload, Application Routing protocol, and firewall load balancing. Awarded “Method for protecting a firewall load balancer from a DoS attack” patent

Worked directly for Cisco VP’s to test Layer 2-7 switching solutions from Arrowpoint, Alteon, Radware and TopLayer Networks for acquisition.

Directly helped close over 942.4 Million dollars worth of Cisco business in two years via customer visits, product demos and competitive bakeoffs etc..
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Education
North Carolina Wesleyan
MIS
IT management, Elec Eng
1995 – 1998
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Full Biography

As a Storage, Virtual Systems, Switching, Routing, Security and Application expert with sales and marketing leadership abilities and Patent holder for "Method for protecting a firewall load balancer from a denial of service attack." Product Manager, Product Marketing Engineer and Business development at SwiftTest, Cisco and Spirent with an expert level capabilities in network, security and applications (testing, development and design). In business development my ideas result in record sales growth at SwiftTest, Cisco and Spirent and 2 Billion worth at Cisco. Experience extends more than 17 years. Background includes testing, designing and implementing storage, security and network infrastructure. Practical experience in design and support for Cisco’s largest New York Financial customers. While at Cisco Systems worked as an emerging technology expert, product manager (Cat6k & CSM) and business development created the first marketing test lab, marketing strategy and marketing materials for Layer 2-7. In addition; started SmartTCP and Smartflow, L4-7, Security, Datacenter product ideas for Spirent. At Spirent my focus has been SpirentTestCenter & Avalanche network and security testing including storage, firewalls, IDS, IPS, and datacenter. At Spirent new technology business development and testing resulting in a 1500% increase in sales, speaking at seminars, workshops and conferences on testing and implementing network, application and security infrastructures. As a PM I started the Spirent datacenter market and security testing market. Also integrated L2-7 application and Security protocols into Spirent TestCenter led the acquisition of ThreatEx

At SwiftTest I came up with the original idea for the company and once again helped the company achieve record sales through technical business development that marries the right product changes and sales strategies with the companies place on the customer adoption curve with the result of record sales.

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