BRANDON M.

KLAPHOLZ, CCNA, CCDA

5408 KINROSS DRIVE, PLANO, TX 75093
(972) 533-4765 / BKLAPHOLZ@GMAIL.COM

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
A business-savvy IT professional with a strong background in systems integration, sales engineering, & consulting, with specific
notable strengths in:
 Consultative solutions development with clients, executives, partners & enterprise IT teams.
 Leadership & management experience for fast-growing technology & business.
 Development & execution of technology strategies & implementation plans for mid-size & large enterprises.
 In-depth understanding of synergies between people & technology necessary to execute successful solutions.
 Excellent communication skills & proven leadership abilities.
 Keen ability to balance business requirements vs. technology solutions that achieve sustainable value.
 Significant track record in business development, account penetration & profitable business delivery.
 Hands-on professional experience in the US, Mid-East & Europe.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
 SALES ENGINEERING & SOLUTIONS  INFORMATION SECURITY
DEVELOPMENT  TECHNICAL CONSULTATIVE SALES
 REGULATORY COMPLIANCE  NETWORK & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
 DATA CENTERS & CO-LOCATED SERVICES

EDUCATION
 Bachelor of Science in Management of Information Systems, University of Texas at Dallas, 2003
 EMT-B, State of Texas Department of Health, License # 103227, 1996
 CCDA, Cisco Certified Design Associate, 2001
 CCNA, Cisco Certified Network Associate, 2001
 PMP, Project Management Professional, Dec. 2009

TECHNICAL ACUMEN
OPERATING SYSTEMS Windows, Linux, UNIX, Xen, VMWare, Parallels, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, FreeVPS, Qemu
NETWORKING BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, VPN, SSL, SMTP/IMAP/POP3, NAT, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, sFTP, SSH,
DNS, VLAN, 802.11xSTP, SIP, VoIP, SNMP, RDP
SECURITY Cisco PIX/ASA, Checkpoint, Fortinet, IDS/IPS, Foundstone, McAfee, Symantec, TrendMicro
LOAD BALANCERS F5 BigIP, Kemp, Barracuda, Kemp, Piranha
CMS Drupal, Magnolia CMS, WordPress, Jahia, dotCMS, Alfresco, Liferay, Deki Wiki, Confluence
STORAGE EMC SAN’s, NAS, NetApp, LTO2/3
ENTERPRISE APPS. Oracle EBS, Hyperion, JD Edwards, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Vignette, SAP, CRM, ERP, ETL, OLAP,
CMS, ECM
WEB SERVERS Apache, Glassfish, Tomcat, Resin, Mongrel, Geronimo, Jetty
LANGUAGES PHP, JavaScript, Perl, SQL, CSS, XHTML, C/C++, RSS, RDF, Shell Scripting, SOAP, JSON,
XML, .NET
JAVA J2EE, JSP, JRE/JDK, Struts, JavaFX, JackRabbit, Jakarta, Tapestry
DATABASES Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, pgSQL, HyperSQL, Sybase, Informix, DB2
DEVELOPMENT ANT, Maven, Subversion, GIT, Mercurial, CVS, Eclipse IDE, NetBeans, Visual Studio

MONITORING Nagios, Hyperic, Zenoss, IPMonitor, What’s Up, OpenManage, SNMP

EXPERIENCE
SPEAKEASY.NET, Dallas, TX
Senior Sales Engineer, 2008 – 2009
 Played pivotal role in winning the business for Speakeasy’s single largest revenue opportunity in company history.

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(972) 533-4765 / BKLAPHOLZ@GMAIL.COM

 Directed integration & technical architecture discussions, data center tours, & pre-sales product & prototype demonstrations
during pre-sales process.
 Formalized sales process & established technical product & service offering standards, reducing implementation errors, &
slashing lead times by +50%.

INDEPENDENT TECHNICAL CONSULTANT TO

STANDINGDOG.COM, Dallas, TX
Technical Consultant, 2009
 Designed, implemented, & configured automated Aegir web site hosting, provisioning, & management platform for Drupal
CMS.
CARTIKAHOSTING.COM, Dallas, TX
Network Operations Center (NOC) Manager, 2008
 Built new H-Sphere managed high availability clustered hosting solution.
 Automated server deployment, provisioning, & patch management.
 Upgraded core network backbone & implemented new switches, routers, & IP load balancers.
LIGHTPACE.COM, Dallas, TX
Senior Consultant, 2007 – 2008
 Built, implemented, & managed virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with hosted Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 &
Exchange 2007 product offerings.1

FRONTLINEDIRECTINC.COM, San Diego, CA

Director of Information Technology, 2006 - 2007
 Capacity planned successfully to accommodate growth rates exceeding +200% annually, through 2011.
 Saved company +$350K by decreasing fixed costs +20% through server virtualization & consolidation.
 Increased aggregate uptime to +99.999%, assuring legal compliance & service level agreements (SLA) were met.
BRANDES INVESTMENT PARTNERS, San Diego, CA
Senior Security Consultant, 2004 - 2005
 Spearheaded major security & compliance audit focused on technical aspects of SOX, GLBA, & SB1386.
 Created disaster recovery plan.
 Implemented Kasten Chase distributed end-to-end encryption & security software solution.
 Upgraded Cisco Catalyst 6509 core switch IDSM blades & deployed VMWare ESx servers.
MCAFEE.COM, Plano, TX
Perimeter Security Engineer, Global Enterprise Accounts, 2004
 Consistently ranked at the top of the team in all metrics & customer service oriented surveys.
 Supported sophisticated perimeter gateway security appliances & software for Fortune 5K, federal & state government, &
enterprise corporate accounts, including IDS, IPS, anti-virus solutions.
 Supported newly acquired Foundstone.com product line.
BEC FINANCIAL, INC., Tel Aviv, Israel
Technical Project Manager & Consultant, 2003 – 2004
 Managed corporate relocation from Las Vegas, Nevada & Carlstadt, New Jersey, to Tel Aviv, Israel.
 Completed 3 months early & +20% below allocated budget.
 Designed, implemented, & configured core network, database servers, VoIP system, & workstations.
PARAGON SCIENTIFIC CORP., Austin, TX
Sales Engineer, 2001 - 2002
 Authored responses for RFP’s, RFI’s, RFQ’s, and SOW’s..
 Designed Cisco networks for small to medium sized organizations.
 Created technical documentation and diagrams for current and proposed infrastructure
DELL COMPUTER CORP., Round Rock, TX
Technical Sales Consultant, 1999 – 2001
 Won “Rookie of the Quarter”, “Top Team Player”, & “Rising Superstar” awards my first quarter.
 Attained +180% of monthly quotas.
 Consistently ranked in the top 5% of sales force.

AFFILIATIONS

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• PASS, Professional Association for SQL Server
• IWA, International Webmasters Association
• DFWCSU, Dallas/Ft. Worth Cisco Users Group
• PRMIA, Professional Risk Managers’ International Association
• IETF, Internet Engineering Task Force
• Drupal.org, Active Community Member & Contributor