Nick Bodmer

Consulting Systems Engineer · Pure Storage, Las Vegas, NV

• Led technical sales engagements for Pure Storage's enterprise data storage solutions.
• Designed and presented complex storage architectures to C-level executives and IT decision-makers.
• Consistently over-achieved quota.
• Mentored new sales engineers and shared best practices across the team.
• Build and maintain relationships with partners, helping to grow Pure Storage mindshare in the Las Vegas Valley.

Senior Systems Engineer · NetApp, Las Vegas, NV

• Provided technology consulting to external customers and internal project teams for a Fortune 500 company managing and storing data on premises and in the cloud.
• Achieved a team 182.7% AOP YTD FY17; recognized as the 8th best performing Enterprise team in the western US.
• Built and maintained relationships with vendors and customers in roles from IT Engineers to C-level executives, delivering technology solutions designed around the customer's business needs.

Systems Engineer · Promark Technologies, Chicago, IL

• Provided onsite implementation and hands-on knowledge transfer of virtualization and storage technologies for primary and secondary storage solutions.
• Specialized in VMware vSphere and related products, including Tegile, Nutanix, HP Storage, Cisco UCS, and Veeam Backup/Replication.
• Developed a comprehensive training program for new engineers.

QA Engineer · Networked Insights, Chicago, IL

• Collaborated with software developers, client service managers, and customers on a QA suite of tools and processes supporting the quality and performance of social media analytics.
• Identified a data validation issue and worked with key stakeholders on root cause and solution.
• Worked with the engineering organization to develop a third-platform web application for social media analytics.

Solutions Architect · CDW, Chicago, IL

• Provided pre-sales expertise in virtualization, storage technology (SAN and NAS), power and cooling, and backup/archival.
• Provided sales training to CDW account managers.

Senior Account Manager · CDW, Chicago, IL

• Managed roughly thirty customer accounts across business, government, and education, delivering new technologies to increase user productivity.
• Recognized as a top performer in both revenue and profit goal attainment.
• Led a server consolidation project for a major university, reducing 60+ servers to a 4-server footprint.

Discovery, technical demos, POC design and execution, RFP/RFI responses, executive presentations and whiteboarding.

Enterprise storage (SAN/NAS), virtualization, networking & DNS, Docker, Linux administration, Ansible, Swift/SwiftUI, video production and editing.

Ships independent iOS apps (League Rewind, Closed, P10) — full lifecycle from design through App Store release.

B.S., Theatrical Design & Production · Illinois State University

Minor in Computer Information Systems. Where the “enthusiastically sharing” half comes from.