kevin papreck

solutions architect

About

As an Architect on the Cloud Infrastructure Business Unit, I am a results-driven technical leader with a strong solutions background, helping enterprises leverage infrastructure and cloud solutions to drive digital transformation. Digital disruption has changed the pace and scale that IT leaders need to address business management capabilities, and I am inspired to work with customers to assist in their transformation from a traditional datacenter to a more agile and simplistic next generation IT business model.

Country

united states

City

chicago

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

storage, virtualization, disaster recovery, san, pre sales, cloud computing, nas, solution selling, data center, enterprise architecture, enterprise software, storage solutions, saas, high availability, storage area networks, vmware, enterprise storage, integration, storage virtualization, professional services, hardware, servers, fibre channel, storage area network, iscsi, crm, solution architecture, replication, oracle, solaris, sun, infrastructure, deduplication, databases, software as a service, storage architecture, network attached storage, performance tuning

Experience

solutions architect

netapp

2018-5 - Present · 8 yrs 5 mos

americas chief architect

netapp

2016-11 - 2018-5 · 1 yr 7 mos

* Solutions Expert at an Americas level with central focus * Provide consistent feedback loop with product teams * POC and implementation support across Americas * Created and delivered enablement course for NetApp Systems Engineers across all central and west regions around DevOps, NetApp HCI, and NetApp SolidFire * Featured speaker at NetApp EBC's, partner conferences, sales playbooks and other various engagements around NetApp HCI, NetApp SolidFire, and NetApp StorageGrid

americas solidfire specialist

netapp

2016-7 - 2016-11 · 5 mos

* Responsible for enabling and assisting partners on NetApp SolidFire, NetApp HCI, and DevOps technologies. * Instructor and course designer for both a dedicated partner enablement track and technical new hire architects joining the business unit to drive Americas adoption of NetApp SolidFire * Field evangelist for our Next Generation Data Center product line

principal sales engineer

oracle

2012-6 - 2016-7 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Consulting sales engineer for Oracle's North America Commercial Hardware organization specializing in applying Oracle's disk, flash, and cloud technologies to client business objectives

senior sales consultant

oracle

2010-5 - 2012-6 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Storage Solutions Architect responsible for providing direction and specialist knowledge in applying the technology/application to client business

solutions architect

laurus technologies

2008-7 - 2010-5 · 1 yr 11 mos

Assisted Account Executives throughout the sales process from development and qualification of a project to overseeing completion. This included developing and proposing solutions to solve technology challenges to new and existing Laurus customers while maintaining a goal of a 100% referable account base.

pre-sales systems engineer

laurus technologies

2008-7 - 2008-11 · 5 mos

Pre-Sales Systems Engineer supporting the Solution Architects with configuration, design, and other various activities.

sales engineer

storage it solutions

2005-7 - 2008-5 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Extensive work identifying storage solutions for existing and potential customers focusing on storage/server consolidation, reducing backup windows, disaster recovery, and virtualization. I also secured customer relationships discovered by cold-calling, analyze customer requirements, implement solutions, and trained customers. Furthermore, I drove the sales cycle from start to finish and help alleviate the completion. I was also accountable for reviewing customer environments and appropriately align solutions based around their business requirements and performance needs. Additional responsibilities included assisting sales representatives with quoting, closing sales, and as a technical reference.