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ion Overview As we expand our regional field sales and technical expertise to deliver Advanced Technology Solutions to our clients, we are seeking a strong Regional Technical Director. Primary responsibility will be to engage with our field sales teams and customers to drive business solutions to our customers.  This position is responsible for ensuring the operational excellence of the regional services team and pre-sales technical support and for developing relationships with Tier 1 and Tier 2 hardware manufacturers and software publishers.    Key Responsibilities: To be the lead technical regional resource for Zones in driving our Solutions to clients.  Participate in Pre-Sales activities at a business level to understand their demonstrated needs and align a technical solution. Actively participate in client facing Zones Connect Customer events in Region to deliver our Solutions message. Develop local relationships with vendor and manufacturer partners to grow our technology product and services sales and enhance existing solutions message. Hire, evaluate, develop and direct technical employees (Field Engineers, System Engineers, Network Engineers, Project Managers and Solution Sales Experts) in your region through direct or dotted-line reporting (see below) Work with and develop local partners and manage technical staff utilized from their staffing pools in order to effectively resource client projects Provide quality results in all technical services, conduct customer meetings, manage QA process for all delivered services; develop pre-sales skills in technical staff Maintain and grow staff technical certifications in line with service focus areas Review, work with the sales teams to respond to assigned RFP’s, RFQ’s and RFI’s that require Solutions team participation in a timely manner; develop professional and profitable SoW’s in response to all project related service engagements. Manage a profitable services P&L for the assigned region through effective staff utilization, service delivery and client satisfaction Maintain and report on regional service delivery and project status with our sales force, related departments and service leadership   We are seeking candidates with the following: 10+ years progressive experience in network engineering including designing, planning and implementing LANs and WANs using current technology Experience in the VAR channel around the various partnering programs is a plus. Must have broad based understanding of enterprise storage, virtualization, messaging and collaboration platforms.  Should be able to articulate capabilities around Data Center centric solutions. Proven relationship building and presentation skills with customers, team members and cross-functional leadership Project management skills/ability to develop, plan and implement short and long term goals for internal and external processes Ability to analyze, develop, establish and maintain efficient office work flow and administrative processes Ability to speak and present solutions to C-Level Suite resources at a given client. Strong technical writing expertise for pre-sales work and project documentation Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience Ability to travel up to 35% Certification or technical expertise in one or more areas beneficial: Microsoft MCITP (or other OS, AIX, HP-UX, Linux) Enterprise Storage Cisco Networking Virtualization Unified Communication Project Management (PMP, ITIL, etc.)   Technical capabilities of managed staff include but are not limited to:   System Engineers Microsoft Virtualization Storage Datacenter design Operation management Collaboration applications Network Engineers Cisco Routing and Switching Unified Communications Video Unified Computing Systems Security Firewall IDS/IPS Performance Load balancing WAN optimization   Solutions Architects Server Virtualization Desktop Virtualization Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, SCCM Enterprise Storage Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Datacenter Design Operational Management and Process Development Systems Engineers Microsoft Technologies (AD, Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, SCCM) Virtualization Technologies (VMware, Citrix and Microsoft) Storage Technologies (EMC, NetApp, Dell, IBM) Converged Infrastructure (Cisco, HP, IBM) Network Engineers Routing and Switching (Cisco, HP, Juniper, Brocade) Unified Communications (Cisco) Video (Cisco) Security (Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, etc.) Optimization (Riverbed, Cisco, etc.)   At Zones we realize that a competitive compensation and benefits package is extremely important to our team members.  We offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans; a 401(k) Plan with an annual discretionary match; paid time off; product discounts; and an in-house workout room at our corporate office. If you meet the qualifications above, are driven by results, and are looking for an exciting career in IT Sales or Sales Support, we want to hear from you! Zones… Connecting Businesses and Technology…. Connecting People with Opportunity. We are proud to be an E/O/E and a minority owned business.  

Beaumont, Texas