Slawek Balcerzak
Open to work25 years experienceCloud Network Architect
Cloud Network Architect
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Work Experience
Senior Network Specialist Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
- Guided customers towards industry best practices in areas such as cloud security, resilience, elasticity, scalability, operational efficiency and compliance
- Promoted AWS networking services by facilitating workshops, immersion days, mentoring other team members, presenting during public events, and publishing blog posts and white papers
- Influenced product roadmaps by feeding customer feedback (use cases and needs); translating client requests into formal documentation and, as a result, into new product features
- Built product knowledge and awareness of services by facilitating workshops, immersion days, evangelizing cloud concepts and services at industry events and conferences, and writing and publishing blog posts or white papers
- Collaborated with AWS strategic global hyperscale customers on building and modernizing their cloud infrastructure
Sr Manager, Systems Engineering
BlueChipTek, a Converge Company
- Managed the team of 5 SMEs (both pre-sales and delivery); through coaching and mentorship, helped them achieve their measurable goals and improved team performance.
- Created and executed plan to increase partnership level of BCT at Juniper Networks and achieved Elite specializations -> extra rebates and amplified company revenue
- Elevated BCT partner status with Palo Alto Networks from Silver to Platinum; increased revenue 5x between 2017 and 2019
- Recognized by the Palo Alto Networks team through Cyberforce HERO award for 2019 for driving adoption of the broad portfolio of security solutions among customers
- Managed several professional services projects focused on network topology, network security, data center networking and corporate IT environments; from solution design through service scoping and budgeting to the final delivery.
- Helped grow and identified sales opportunities within existing accounts, resulting in new business acquisitions, company revenue growth and strengthened customer relationships
- Collaborated on creating account strategies, pipelining opportunities and running programs targeted towards revenue growth, customer acquisition and increase in account penetration
- Helped company customers manage vendors and run negotiations to match their technology roadmaps and business objectives
Senior Solution Architect
Blue Chip Tek Inc.
- Worked with the account teams on a broad base of enterprise customers in order to identify opportunities and drove these opportunities from the technical side
- Developed and built the internal networking testbed to support diverse vendor equipment (Cisco, Juniper Networks, Arista, Palo Alto Networks etc.), significantly improving the quality of customer demos and proof-of-concepts.
- Grew partnerships and built competencies through active participation in trade shows, webinars and product trainings
- Tracked and researched technology trends, followed development of emerging technologies and performed competitive analysis to help positioning various offerings to meet needs of stakeholders and solve their business challenges.
- Created multiple solutions for company clients around networking technologies increasing BCT added value
- Ran various proof-of-concepts, product demonstrations and presentations to win deals with company clients and prospects
Senior Presales Solution Architect
FusionStorm
- Co-created (with the account teams) account plans and build business-focused technical solutions for complex network and cybersecurity technologies
- Created scopes of work and pricing analysis for multiple enterprise and data center security and network infrastructure projects aimed at solving customer business needs or challenges
- Helped customers design and deploy their infrastructure architectures using leading networking hardware in greenfield, modernization, or expansion scenarios
- Ran multiple customer projects related to infrastructure design, operations, deployment, modernization, and optimization of efficiency and reliability
Solution Support Engineer
Juniper Networks
- Drove competence growth and closed team's competence gaps within Customer Focused Technical Support (CFTS) of Juniper Technical Assistance Center in regards to a major Service Provider (SP) customer's network architecture and topology; as a result customer cases were handled faster
- Coordinated incident response (resolution of critical cases of network outages) for strategic customers handled by CFTS as a result constantly improving customer satisfaction, loyalty and retention
- Partnered with account management teams to effectively support customers' cases
- Co-developed technical documentation for internal use covering customer's architecture, technologies involved, products used etc.
IP Solution Architect
Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) /Nokia Siemens Networks/Nokia
- Drove product and services sales through initial network dimensioning and planning as well as participating in RFI/RFQ responding efforts
- Drove multiple network deployment and optimization projects execution, both as an individual contributor and a team leader, increasing customer success
- Helped Nokia customers increase value to their end users via network performance analysis and optimization efforts
- Lead the network planning teams via activities such as performance reviews, professional development planning, policy and procedure adherence reviews, organizing team-building activities, reporting etc.
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Achievements
Cyberforce HERO award 2019
Recognized by the Palo Alto Networks team through Cyberforce HERO award for 2019 for driving adoption of the broad portfolio of security solutions among customers.
About Details
Professional Bio
Highly motivated, client-facing cloud technologies, network and information security expert with years of complex network design, implementation and systems engineering experience. Highly skilled in creating cross-technology information systems infrastructure strategies and solutions.
Master of Science in Computer Science in Software Engineering and Database Systems
Gdansk University of Technology (1991 - 1998)