Lee Morton

Address: 8 Amberdene, Matlock, DE4 3HR

H: 01629 55277 M:07925 792295 E: lee.morton@outlook.com

Age: 45 Nationality: British Status: Married Driving Licence: Full and Clean

Profile

Skilled Presales engineer specialising in security software solutions. Supporting Vendors, channel partners and customers with all aspects of the sales process.

Previous experience of post-sales activities and delivering customer and partner training as a certified trainer for multiple security vendors.

Employment

QBS:alphagen

Senior Presales Engineer 2018 – Present

Managing presales and providing presales activities for QBS:alphagen vendors and partners with a focus on Privileged Access Management. Primarily activities

included product demonstrations and meetings both remotely and in person, assisting with RFI/RFP, presenting on webinars and in person events, POC installs as

well as engaging with and training channel partners.

Accomplishments include:
 Creating the agenda and content for a Thycotic customer roadshow in the Nordic Region
 Working as a direct extension of Thycotic’s own Sales Engineering team

Alpha Generation Distribution Ltd

Support and Services Manager 2013 – 2018

Managing the support and services department at Alpha Generation. Primarily involved in pre-sales activity with the addition of Vendor evaluation, post-sales

support and maintenance of internal systems.

Accomplishments include:
 Secunia Pre-sales Engineer of the year 2014
 Creation of Secunia Technical Training Course

Exclusive Networks UK Ltd

Product Trainer 2009 - 2013

Delivering certified training courses for multiple security vendors including Fortinet, Palo Alto, McAfee, Kaspersky and Astaro (Sophos network security) to channel

partners and customers. Whilst primary focus is on delivering training, pre-sales and post-sales work was still undertaken.

Accomplishments include:
 Building virtual training environments in VMware workstation and ESXi making the training both portable and accessible for remote delivery.
 Creation of McAfee Disk Encryption Course which was highly rated by attendees for its high level of hands-on content
 Delivery of quality training enabling channel partners to complete accreditation and a reduction in end user support tickets

Exclusive Networks UK Ltd

Pre & Post Sales Engineer 2004 - 2008

Providing pre-sales and post-sales support on multiple products. This included installations from Proof Of Concept through evaluation and final deployment,

demonstrations both remote and on customer site, meetings, conference calls and assistance with tenders. Also involvement in maintaining internal systems

including Active Directory, Group Policy Objects and MS SQL.

Accomplishments include:
 Consistently finding cross-sell opportunities by understanding customer pain points and suggesting a relevant solution
 Building virtual environments to test and demo customer scenarios
 Becoming the lead technical contact on a variety of solutions

Profitmaster Ltd

Junior Developer 2001 - 2004

Involved in the conversion of a bespoke accounts and order management solution from a UNIX platform to a windows platform. This involved gaining an

understanding of Object Oriented Programming, SQL server and Relational Database design.

Accomplishments include:
 Submitting modules of code according to strict development time-scales
 Using log files to debug code and resolve software issues
 Performing extensive QA testing which has subsequently given good grounding in evaluating software and have suggested numerous improvements

many of which have made it into the final solution

Easy/IP Ltd

Technical Support 1998 - 2001

Providing post sales email and telephone support and occasional installation.

Professional Certification

Thycotic International Pre-Sales Engineer

Bromium (HP Sure Click Enterprise) Certified Administrator

Altaro VM Backup Advanced Professional

FCNA Fortinet Certified Network Administrator

FCNSP Fortinet Certified Network Security Professional

FCT Fortinet Certified Trainer

ACE Astaro Certified Engineer

ACT Astaro Certified Trainer

KL DST LAN Kaspersky Lab Data-Security Technician LAN Windows

KL CT Kaspersky Lab Certified Trainer

ACE Palo Alto Accredited Configuration Engineer

Palo Alto Certified Trainer

McAfee Certified Data Protection Engineer

Education

1998 Nottingham Trent University (BA (Hons) Business Economics)

1995 National Examining Board for Supervisory Management Certificate

1994 Highfields School (4 A-Levels)

1992 Highfields School (10 GCSE's)