Marco Marquez
Solutions Architect / Sales Engineer
Intro
What I am all about.
Hi! I'm Marco and I'm an independent consultant (hire me!) where I advise small and big companies on how to go through a digital transformation from monolithic infrastructures to microservices.
Currently, I work as a Global Solutions Engineering manager for Kong Inc. Prior to this, I worked at New Relic as a Technical Partner Manager. If you want to get in contact with me, feel free to email me at marco.marquez.b {at} gmail.com.
Experience
Yes. I've been around.
August 2017 – Present
Kong Inc
Global Manager of Solutions Architecture Team
Vienna, AT and Madrid, ES
Work side-by-side with the sales team, identifying, qualifying business opportunities with focus on the technical needs of the customer. Once identified and qualified, I impart live demos of Kong's API Gateway in order to show value of the product and meet prospect's business requirements.
October 2015 – August 2016
New Relic
Technical Partner Manager
San Francisco, CA, US
Acted as a dedicated service-side point of contact for New Relic API Developer Partners. Conducted high-impact services including customized product trainings, account reviews, feature request prioritization, and on-site visits.
April 2014 – October 2015
New Relic
US SMB & LatAm Enterprise Sales Engineer
San Francisco, CA, US
Responsible for actively driving and managing the technology evaluation stage of the sales process and working in conjunction with the sales team as the key technical advisor and product advocate for our suite of products.
April 2012 – April 2014
Box
Technical Consultant
Los Altos, CA, US
Responsible for providing business, advisory and technical skills to Box's most amazing and important customers. I work with customers on designing and implementation of systems that may include object/data modeling, workflow design business logic programming and solving other technical and business problems as driven by customer requirements. I was the technical lead on the team that helped implement one of Box's biggest customers, Schneider-Electric.
April 2009 – April 2012
Planisware
Technical Consultant II
San Francisco, CA, US
Responsible for implementing Planisware's software solution and providing customer support with their configuration, use and maintenance. Worked as part of a team for the development and implementation of Project, Resource and Portfolio management systems for both Alcon and Roche. Additionally, I authored and performed system administrator's trainings for Roche. These trainings were done in United Kingdom, Switzerland, Poland and United States.
May 2008 – August 2008
Goldman Sachs
Network Desktop Solution (NDS) Technology Team
San Francisco, CA, US
Held multifaceted responsibilities to configure, install and administer Citrix XP/VMWare ESX server farms. Improved inventory control capabilities by developing a script that gathered, organized and outputted how server farms where divided based on location and department.
Education
Lazy isn't in my vocabulary.
2016 – 2018
WU Executive Academy
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Entrepreneurship
Vienna, AT
Graduated from the WU Executive Academy with focus on Entrepreneurship & Innovation - with honors.
2005 – 2009
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computational Engineering
Berkeley, CA, US
Studied a large blend of courses which mainly included Engineering, Math, Computer Science and Numerical Analysis. I managed to do this while supporting myself through college by working 20+ hrs / week for the last three years, including the summers. The summer after graduation I lived in Italy for 4 months. During this time, I traveled to many countries across Europe including: France, England, Switzerland, Spain and Germany.
2010 – 2012
City College of San Francisco
Continuing Education
San Francisco, CA, US
Classes taken in order to keep up with the newest technologies. - CNIT201E (CCNA Course). Network Fundamentals. - CNIT202E (CCNA Course). Routing Protocols and Concepts. - CNIT133. Interactive Web Pages in Javascript. - CS130. PHP Programming. - CS160B. Unix/Linux Shell Script Programming - SMBS135. Ownership/Operation of Small Businesses - Photography 51 - Beginning Photography Achieved a grade of A (Excellent) for all of the courses above.
Languages
Hello? Hola? Ciao?
01
English
Native / Mother Tongue
02
Spanish
Native / Mother Tongue
03
German
Professional working proficiency
04
Italian
Limited working proficiency
Awards / Certifications
Happy times!
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Level
Issued January 2020
Top Global Performer
Global Top Performer (based on revenue) Solutions Architect in FY2020
Above and Beyond FY2015/2016
New Relic Award given to those that exceed expectations. I was given the award twice, in two different fiscal years, 2015 & 2016.