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Куранов Илья Сергеевич
Male, 39 years, born on 17 January 1986
Moscow, metro station Planernaya, willing to relocate, prepared for occasional business trips

Presale Engineer
Specializations:
- Sales manager, account manager
Employment: full time
Work schedule: full day, flexible schedule
Work experience 17 years 3 months
May 2022 — currently
3 years 8 months
Moscow, servicepipe.ru/
IT, System Integration, Internet... Show more
Presale manager
- Analysis of the task and needs of the client;
- Presentation of solutions and services, highlighting distinctive features;
- Providing technical knowledge and expertise to customers;
- Interacting with the partners, identifying the needs and business opportunities by performing technical consultancy;
- Customer support until contract sign stage;
- Customer support during onboarding stage;
- Technical Issues resolution supervising;
- PoC preparation works supervising;
- Help in analyzing leads for upsale;
- Developing project documentation;
June 2018 — May 2022
4 years
Tiger Optics
Moscow, www.tiger-optics.ru/
IT, System Integration, Internet... Show more
Pre Sale Engineer
Pre-sale Engineer & Technical Support Engineer
Vendors: Palo Alto Networks, Sentinel One, Guardicore, Appgate, Morphisec;
- Customer technical support;
- Product training for customers and partners;
- Providing technical knowledge and expertise to the customers;
- Supporting the commercial team in the development, construction of offers to the clients;
- Interacting with the partners, identifying the needs and business opportunities by performing technical consultancy;
- Delivering training/workshops/webinars for our customers;
- Creating of PoC (proof of concepts) within the real customer's environment;
- Products presentation for customers and partners online and face-to-face;
- Office IT infrastructure maintenance;
- Office helpdesk;
January 2017 — June 2018
1 year 6 months
LUIS+
Moscow, www.luis.ru
Business Services... Show more
Presale engineer
- Technical support for sales managers;
- Customer negotiation to investigate their needs, technical consultations;
- Seminars and workshops;
- Active participation in the exhibitions;
- Brand technical support;
- Design and documentation coordination with OEM manufacturer;
- Negotiation with dealers and distributors to investigate and analyze new market trends and products;
Achievements:
- Added new devices to OEM line (LTV brand);
- Redesigned web-interface for LTV managed switches;
October 2008 — December 2016
8 years 3 months
Samara, www.huawei.com
Telecommunications, Communications... Show more
Network engineer
- Commissioning and deploying production services on the MBH(Mobile Backhaul) networks
- Equipment contract supervision
- Coordination network planning process with a customer
- MBH network configuration, configuration audit, troubleshooting, and optimization
- Customer technical support and training, technical consulting for subcontractors engineers
- Productivity testing and stress testing
I performed duties as a network engineer on various projects, starting from equipment
commissioning stage to services deploying into production, providing customer support, during all
these stages and after it.
Achievements:
Successful implementation of many network delivery, expansion, configuration audit, configuration
optimization, pre-sales test, and swap projects across the country:
- One of the first persons in Russia who have mastered the new OptiX PTN product line and NMS
iManager U2000
- Took an active part in pre-sales tests of OptiX PTN equipment for MegaFon in Samara (2008)
- Took an active part in MBH network commissioning for MegaFon 3G project in Togliatti (2009)
- Successfully completed MBH network optimization project for MegaFon in Saint-Petersburg, which
helped to avoid massive mobile network services outage on New Year's eve 2010
- Completed network commissioning and testing projects in Chechnya. (Grozny)(2010)
- Completed network commissioning project in Altay and Siberia (2011)
- Was part of a team that actively participated in many expansion, optimization, and swap projects on
MBH networks in all regions of a country. Completed many network configuration audits that helped
to reveal potential threats for network performance and stability. Took an active part in MBH networks
optimization projects, based on results of previous configuration audits. (2011-2014)
- Conducted professional training and provided technical support for MBH/MBB Maintenance
engineers in Crimea (May-November 2015)
- In January 2016 took an active part in the “PTN software upgrade” project. Completed remote
software upgrade on more than 1000 sites for MegaFon in the Ural region for 8 months
- Also since June 2016 got into work and successfully resolved dozens of technical support
requests from customers from the southern regions of the country and former Commonwealth of Independent States
- Wrote special technical articles about technical problems I met and solutions.
Skills
Skill proficiency levels
Driving experience
Driver's license category B
About me
Result oriented. Capable for multitask work in stressful environment. Responsible approach to solving problems. English – Upper-Intermadiate.
Recommendations
Tiger Optics
on demand (BDM)
Higher education (master)
2008
Faculty of Telecommunication and Radio Engineering, Communications with Mobile Objects
Languages
Professional development, courses
2024
Guardicore GCSE Exam v40
Guardicore, Guardicore Certified Security Enginer
2022
EF SET English Certificate 73/100 (C2 Proficient)
EF Education First
2019
Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE)
Palo Alto Networks, Network Security Engineer
2018
Palo Alto Networks System Engineer Professional – Endpoint (PSE-P Endpoint)
Palo Alto Networks, System Engineer
2018
Palo Alto Networks Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE)
Palo Alto Networks, Configuration Engineer
Citizenship, travel time to work
Citizenship: Russia
Permission to work: Russia
Desired travel time to work: Doesn't matter