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I ´m Pedro Pérez Fernández

Just a Digital Transformation enthusiast enjoying this ride and always looking for new challenges.

  • Age 44
  • Address Madrid, Spain
  • E-mail hola@pedropf.com

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During these years I have had the chance to work in different roles, samples of which are: Systems Consultant, Systems Architect, Technical Presales, Account Manager or Customer Success.

I´m highly experienced on WW Enterprise Support and have managed multiple high-value Enterprise Level accounts worldwide , which has provided me with the opportunity of learning from difference working cultures.

For me, the customer is always the most important aspect of my working life, without a customer, we clearly do not have a business and I always do my best to ensure that I can be relied upon and trusted.

 

Professional Skills

Cybersecurity
Cloud Computing IaaS, SaaS & PaaS
Cloud-Delivered Security Services
Digital Transformation
Account Management
Customer Success
Customer Service Management
AWS & GCP
Project Management
Networking
Troubleshooting & problem solving
Critical Thinking
Soft Skills

Education

2023

Cybersecurity fundamentals

Palo Alto Networks Academy

2022

Google Cloud Platform

Pluralsight

2021

SASE, ZTNA & Cloud-delivered security services Technologies

PluralSight

2020

Web Design, CCS & HTML

PluralSight

2019

AWS Solutions Architect

PluralSight

2017 - 2018

Master Digital Transformation

IE Business School

2015

The Consultative Process

Wilson Learning School

2010

VMware Vsphere training certification

CAS Training

2002

Master Networking Architecture

University of Alcala de Henares

2002

Assoc Bachelor degree Computer Science

University of Alcala de Henares / IES A. Avellaneda

Work Experience

Jul 2022 - Present

Senior CSM

Being part of the SASE Customer Success team and managing a portfolio of customers across EMEA (UK, Sweden, SouthAfrica, Spain, Switzerland, UAE), my main goal is to help my customers get the maximum benefit of their investment in our technology.

Main responsabilities:

• Manage a portfolio of enterprise customers, driving value realization
• Focus on client satisfaction, enhancing retention, renewals, and adoption rates.
• Oversee customer adoption, emphasizing enablement and increased product usage.
• Collaborate internally with cross-functional teams including Sales, Professional Services, Support team, Education, to provide best practices for extracting maximum value from Palo Alto products.
• Establish strategic relationships, manage customer health, and mitigate risks post-onboarding.
• Develop functional expertise in Palo Alto solutions to support day-to-day interactions.
• Conduct periodic strategic business reviews, aligning outcomes with Palo Alto solutions.
• Map customer businesses, ensure contract renewals, and identify new needs.
• Identify growth opportunities and leverage resources to drive customer success.
• Engage in strategic account planning with key stakeholders, acting as a renewals brand ambassador.

Sept 2011 - June 2022

Lead Technical Account Manager

Being part of the EMEA Customer Success team and managing accounts worldwide, like in South Africa, Turkey, Italy, Germany and Spain, my first responsibility is to understand how customer´s virtualization, mobility, networking and cloud solutions interact with the business, focusing on providing technical support and advice, building and maintaining relationships between support team and remote customers.

I have high visibility and interact with many groups internally and externally to help achieving an excellent level of customer service and satisfaction, building a solid foundation and extending the relationship between the company and customers.

I am also valued as a single point of contact and the ‘face of Citrix’ to my customers. I also create and provide content, mentoring, and leadership through more difficult scenarios across the team.

2011 - 2011

Project Manager & Presales Engineer

I had both roles in this company; Technical pre-sales engineer and Project Manager, working with different technologies and leading the implementation.

One my successful projects was the selling and the implementation of a Citrix environment for Telefonica Moviles, in order to work with SAP BPC.

Jun 2010- Mar 2011

Senior Consultant

My main activities were focused on developing projects with different technologies and also maintaining customer’s architecture hosted in our Cloud.

Apr 2007- Jun 2010

Senior System Engineer

Being part of the IT staff and responsible of the internal architecture, developing the best technical strategy for the company.

Jun 2006 - Apr 2007

Senior Consultant

Belonging to the "Telefonica moviles operational Team", Optimizing processes and procedures in order to improve the performance of the technical team for their daily management tasks. Also, providing high level support when needed.

Dec 2005 - Jun 2006

Senior Consultant

As member of the IT team, developing new procedures to improve the management of the environment and providing support to the first support line of the team.

Jun 2005 - Dec 2005

Junior Consultant

Developing projects with different technologies, like Microsoft, Citrix and VMWare

Feb 2004 - Jun 2005

Senior System Administrator

Belonging to the IT team, my main responsibility was the creation of new Citrix architecture to help the call centers to work more efficiently. I was the leader of that project during all cycle. Also, one of my other tasks was to provide support to the first support line of the team.

Jan 2002 - Feb 2004

Junior System Administrator

Assigned to the health centers and hospitals project, belonging to the "Madrid Area 3" IT team, my main responsibility was to provide technical support to the health centers of the area, both SW and HW support

Certifications Achieved

2024

SASE System Engineer Professional

Palo Alto Networks

2022

Palo Alto Networks Certified Cybersecurity Entry-Level Technician

Palo Alto Networks

2019

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA)

AWS

2019

Citrix Certified Sales Professional (CCSP)

Citrix

2019

Virtual Apps and Desktops Service on Citrix Cloud Certified (CC-VAD-CC)

Citrix

2019

Virtual Apps and Desktops Service Integration with Microsoft Azure Certified (CC-VAD-MA)

Citrix

2017

Citrix CCE-V (Citrix Certified Expert-Virtualization)

Citrix

2016

Citrix CCP-V (Citrix Certified Professional - Virtualization)- Expired

Citrix

2016

Citrix CCA-V (Citrix Certified Associate - Virtualization) - Expired

Citrix

2015

Citrix CCEE (Citrix Certified Enterprise Engineer) - Expired

Citrix

2015

Citrix CCP-M (Citrix Certified Professional – Mobility) - Expired

Citrix

2014

Citrix CCIA (Citrix Certified Integration Architect) for Virtualization (Expired)

Citrix

2012

MCITP Virtualization Administrator - Expired

Microsoft

2010

MCITP Server Administrator on Windows Server 2008

Microsoft

2010

VMware VCP Vsphere - Expired

VMware

2010

VMware VTSP

Vmware

2010

Vmware VSP

Vmware

2009

ITIL V3 Foundation

EXIN

2007

MCSA 2003 - Expired

Microsoft

Awards and Achievements

INNOVATION AWARD (Citrix 2016)

I got this award thanks to the collaboration as mentor of the EMEA team, about a new delivering service model called “The Consultative Process”. As mentor, I had to deliver different training and create content, in order to help the team to get familiarized with the new processes.   

MVP (Citrix 2020)

I got this award thanks to different worldwide activities i was involve in. I was member of different internal WW teams, which were responsible of improving several Key services. I offered myself as volunteer to be part of these teams, while keeping my regular activities and providing same good level of service to my customers. 

Volunteer Experience

Red Cross

Jan 204 - present


Collaborating in a day center for children, helping them with their homework, among other things

Kenya

August 2016


Volunteering in Kenia, collaborating with an Orphanage / School located in an small village close to Nairobi

Nepal

July-August 2017


Volunteering in Nepal, collaborating with orphanages in Pokhara and Kathmandu

Peru

August 2019


Volunteering in Huancayo, Province of Peru, collaborating in orphanages and Young Mothers center located in Sicaya.

AlliAyudo.org

2017- 2020


Managing and coordinating international volunteering, in the same places where I have been collaborating as volunteer.

JuntosSalimos.es

April 2020- Jan 2021


Designing and maintaining the web site juntossalimos.es. This project was created during the covid-19 crisis, in order to bring help to hospitals and old people’s home, delivering all kind of needs they could have, specially medical equipment, with the help of volunteers and donations.

Portfolio as Web Designer (Just as hobby)

Libia Cornelio

UX design

Libia Cornelio

UX design

Jamones Garcia Moreno

UX design

Jamones Garcia Moreno

UX design

Namak Nadeem Siraj

UX design

Namak Nadeem Siraj

UX design

BGE Abogados

UX design

BGE Abogados

UX design

Skyfree

UX design

Skyfree

UX design

Hotel Amano Maison Carree

UX design

Hotel Amano Maison Carree

UX design

Amanorest.com

UX design

Amanorest.com

UX design

Mecnature.com

UX design

Mecnature.com

UX design

palaciosantacecilia.com

UX design

palaciosantacecilia.com

UX design

Paellademou.com

UX design

Paellademou.com

UX design

Places I have visited (due Work or Pleasure)

 

My Interests

  • Sports
  • Healthy food
  • Animals
  • Nature
  • Travel
  • movie theater
  • Learn something new
  • Web Design

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