Perley Mears

Principal Sales Consultant @ Oracle

About

Architects solutions to meet customer's business requirements. Develops and presents technical material clearly, to customers from CEOs to System Admins. Enthusiastically transfers knowledge to others through articles, blog posts, web pages, presentations. Collaborates with engineering and marketing to drive customer feedback into products and services. Manages Pre-Sales Pilots and Proofs of Concept. Oversees and supports lab resources for sales use in benchmarks, POCs, Pilots, testing, and learning new products. Teaches product training and Transfer Of Information (TOI) sessions both internally and externally. When needed, escalates customer Pre and Post sales issues to successful conclusion. Takes full advantage of various Social Networking technologies to collaborate, communicate and evangelize with colleagues and customers, including Twitter, Facebook, IM, IRC, LinkedIn, Plaxo, blogging, and more. Quickly learns new products and technologies. Specialties: Platforms: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, VMware, Solaris, Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu), Mac OS X, Mac System 7/8/9 Networking: LAN/WAN administration, TCP/IP, 10/100/1000BaseT ethernet Languages: UNIX shell script, Java, JavaScript, HTML, Wiki, Perl, C, BASIC Tools: Microsoft Office, Star Office, SSH, IRC, Virtual Box, Sun Ray Server, Sun Secure Global Desktop

Country

United States

City

Lancaster

Industry

Computer Hardware

Skill

Solaris, VMware, Shell Scripting, Perl, Red Hat Linux, TCP/IP, Java, C, Networking, VirtualBox, Mac OS X, Network Administration, JavaScript, HTML, Ubuntu, SSH, Microsoft Office, Wikis, Cloud Computing, Storage

Experience

Principal Sales Consultant

Oracle

2011-7 - 2023-7 · 12 yrs 1 mo

Burlington, MA

Sr. Sales Consultant

Sun Microsystems

2010-4 - 2011-9 · 1 yr 6 mos

Internal pre-sales technical consultant supporting a team of inside sales reps, presenting, demoing, building configurations, answering customer questions, and gathering data in order to create the right solution for the customer.

Senior Systems Engineer II

P3I, Incorporated

2009-8 - 2010-4 · 9 mos

Contractor working for the Air Force on GCCS-AF.

Technical Specialist

Sun Microsystems

1997-9 - 2009-8 · 12 yrs

Manage customer relationships, providing detailed technical and architectural details to help customers achieve business goals using Sun Microsystems technologies.

Sr. Support Engineer

Banyan Systems

1994 - 1997-8 · 3 yrs

Provided technical support for a wide-range of messaging products including a PC-LAN based Windows/DOS E-mail package, a Group Scheduling calendar package, and collaboration forum package to customers from end-users to system administrators to consultants. Chosen by previous Employee Excellence Award recipients to recieve an Employee Excellence Award at the 1995 Company Meeting, for contributions to Banyan and their cutomers far above expected job performance.

Technical Support Engineer

Beyond, Inc.

1992-12 - 1994 · 1 yr

Provided technical support for a PC-LAN based Windows/DOS E-mail package to customers from end-users to system administrators to consultants.

LAN Administrator/Computer Specialist

ManLabs, Division of Alcan Aluminum Corporation

1990 - 1992 · 2 yrs

Designed and implemented a system of networked personal computers which increased computer access by 500% and capacity and capability by 300%. Established a fiber optic connection between 2 buildings which resulted in a 50% reduction in software expenditures and a 50% increase in computer resource availability. Effectively responded to a virus infection and implemented protective measures using anti-virus software.

Computer System Coordinator

Process Control Industries, Inc.

1987 - 1989 · 2 yrs

Organized, installed and maintained a network of DEC MicroVAX and IBM-compatible PCs which resulted in a reduction of computer resource expenditures.

Test Engineer

Process Control Industries, Inc.

1985 - 1987 · 2 yrs

Analyzed and redesigned firmware duplication process resulting in improved efficiency of 600%. Wrote and implemented test procedures for proprietary microprocessor-based equipment which reduced total test time by 20%.

Associate Engineer

Avco System Division

1983 - 1985 · 2 yrs

Designed and supervised construction of several in-house test units. Supervised completion of advanced test unit design, documentation, testing and assembly.