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Education
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Interests And Personal Achievements
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Accreditations And Education
Certification
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Keith Galbraith

Keith Galbraith

Mountmellick

Summary

Experienced Technical Account Management and Remote Product Specialist in Symantec Enterprise Security software. Experience of managing key accounts from the financial sectors under strict privacy laws and legislation. Strong and positive communicator when working with clients from any business level. Exemplary problem-solving skills with the ability to identify problems and implement corrective processes. Team player, but also self-managed and can drive one’s own high level of productivity. Calm under pressure, willing to embrace new challenges and learn on the job.

Technical Account Manager with more than 12 years of hands-on experience in software development and web technologies to support enterprise accounts. Develops and promotes value realization that translates into closed new business, renewal and upsell opportunities. Proven record of successfully proposing technical solutions by presenting complex concepts in easy to understand terms and building strong, long-lasting relationships with senior executives and project level resources.

Collaborative leader partners with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.

Technical Account Manager with more than 13 years of hands-on experience in software development and web technologies to support enterprise accounts. Develops and promotes value realization that translates into closed new business, renewal and upsell opportunities. Proven record of successfully proposing technical solutions by presenting complex concepts in easy to understand terms and building strong, long-lasting relationships with senior executives and project level resources.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Principle Technical Account Manager for Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Broadcom
01.2015 - Current
  • Technical Account Managers (TAM) are technical experts that work with the customer on a particular product family.
  • The TAM works technical support cases and provides proactive services like upgrade planning and feature optimization.
  • A key aspect of this position is to ensure customer satisfaction and deliver a high level of technical support services.
  • Maintain customer support assistance for highly critical and severe issues causing severe disruption and major impact to the customer’s environment while expediting to engineering and development teams.
  • Troubleshoot technical product issues and manage the customer’s expectation and deadlines for issue resolution.
  • Co-ordinate efforts between the customer and Sales, Product Management, Technical Support and Engineering to drive customer issues to resolution in a timely manner.
  • As a DLP subject matter expert mentor new hires and deliver troubleshooting and knowledge sharing workshops.
  • Deliver the occasional presentation online to team members and external customers.
  • Perform proactive services such as product configuration review, health checks, tuning the environment and best practice.
  • Additional team activities: Knowledge Centred Support (KCS) Coach, and ad-hoc backup escalations manager.

Senior Technical Account Manager for Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Symantec
04.2013 - 12.2014
  • Working as a Remote Product Specialist for Data Loss Prevention, a dedicated technical resource assigned to work directly with customers providing expert advice and assistance while gaining a good understanding of their environment, setup, staff along with their limitations and long-term goals.
  • Perform analysis of customer's architecture and implementation of Data Loss Prevention to stabilize and optimize the product to its full potential.
  • Provide mitigation strategies sensitive to the customer’s corporate environment in conjunction with determining the customer’s needs.
  • Provide the customer with quarterly reviews and weekly meetings to increase case productivity and enhance the customer’s support experience.
  • Proactively notify the customer of latest bug fixes, new product release and product enhancements.
  • Assisting sales in securing renewal of support contracts.

Advanced Technical Support Engineer for Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Symantec
08.2011 - 04.2013
  • Provided an Advanced Access Level of technical support for Data Loss Prevention to all customers; assisting in the areas of installation, upgrading, policy configuration, best practices, troubleshooting, integration with third-party technologies and general administration.
  • Received escalated customer cases from frontline engineers for deeper root cause analysis and troubleshooting.
  • Assisted Symantec Partners with proof-of-concept environment setup and issues for potential sales.

Advanced Technical Support Engineer for Endpoint Protection (SEP)

Symantec
01.2008 - 08.2011
  • Provided an Advanced Access Level of technical support to Business Critical and Platinum level customers for several Symantec products; Antivirus, Symantec Client Security, Endpoint Protection, Encryption, and Mobile Security.
  • Assisted customers with root cause investigation, impact analysis, and disaster recovery for virus outbreaks.
  • Acted as a mentor and point of escalation for frontline engineers in EMEA and APJ regions as well as being the Knowledge Base Coach for the Endpoint team.

Product Support Analyst

Symantec
10.2006 - 12.2007
  • Provided Frontline technical support for Symantec Antivirus and Client Security products.
  • Researched and managed customer issues through to resolution.
  • Advised on best practises for installation, configuration, vulnerability assessment, managing steps to minimize recovery and steps to recover from virus outbreaks.

IT Helpdesk Technician

An Garda Síochána
04.2005 - 09.2006
  • Company Overview: Contracted by Vantage Resources Ltd to work in the Garda Headquarters.
  • Working as first point of contact for end-users of internal specific systems, hardware and operating systems used by An Garda Síochána and Public Sector Offices.
  • Document and escalate issues to supporting teams to debug internal system errors for a software application fix.
  • Took a lead role in coordinating the roll out and upgrade of new hardware to Garda stations.
  • Contracted by Vantage Resources Ltd to work in the Garda Headquarters.

Helpdesk Support Analyst

Hewlett-Packard
07.2004 - 04.2005
  • Provided frontline helpdesk support and troubleshooting services to customers spread throughout Europe via phone, email and Internet.
  • Documented issues and dispatched to the next line of technical support.
  • Additional responsibilities: completing the team’s weekly and monthly service level reports detailing service level targets.
  • Assisting in the training of new members of the team in customer services and product support.

Education

BSc. (Honours) - Computer Science and Software Engineering

National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Maynooth, Co. Kildare
01.2003

Leaving Certificate - Business (B), Economics (B), Geography (C), Biology (C), Maths (A), English (B), French (B) & Irish (C)

The King’s Hospital school
01.1999

Skills

  • Technical Account Management
  • Remote Product Specialist
  • Symantec Enterprise Security
  • Client Communication
  • Problem-Solving
  • Teamwork
  • Self-Management
  • Productivity
  • Calm Under Pressure
  • Adaptability

Professional Development Certificates

Introduction to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, 11/04/20

Interests And Personal Achievements

  • Competitive runner completing various race distances; 5k, 10K, half and full marathons.
  • Completed a number of half-Ironman and full Ironman triathlons.
  • Represented Ireland in the 2013 ITU World Triathlon Championships in London.
  • Triathlon race secretary and coordinator for Trilogy Triathlon race in 2011-2012.
  • Other hobbies include walking the dog, Pilates, Yoga, and reading for relaxation.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 03/19/81
  • Nationality: Irish

Accreditations And Education

  • Symantec CloudSOC Administration, In progress
  • Symantec EMEA TAM of the Quarter - FY19 Q3, 2018
  • Symantec EMEA TAM of the Quarter - FY18 Q1, 2017
  • Wilson Learning - Signature Service training in Customer Satisfaction, 2016
  • (ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), 2011
  • CompTIA Network+ N10-003, 2009
  • BSc. (Honours) Computer Science and Software Engineering, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, 2003
  • Leaving Certificate, The King’s Hospital school, Dublin, 1999, Business (B), Economics (B), Geography (C), Biology (C), Maths (A), English (B), French (B), Irish (C)

Certification

CISSP

Timeline

Senior Principle Technical Account Manager for Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Broadcom
01.2015 - Current

Senior Technical Account Manager for Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Symantec
04.2013 - 12.2014

Advanced Technical Support Engineer for Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Symantec
08.2011 - 04.2013

Advanced Technical Support Engineer for Endpoint Protection (SEP)

Symantec
01.2008 - 08.2011

Product Support Analyst

Symantec
10.2006 - 12.2007

IT Helpdesk Technician

An Garda Síochána
04.2005 - 09.2006

Helpdesk Support Analyst

Hewlett-Packard
07.2004 - 04.2005

Leaving Certificate - Business (B), Economics (B), Geography (C), Biology (C), Maths (A), English (B), French (B) & Irish (C)

The King’s Hospital school

BSc. (Honours) - Computer Science and Software Engineering

National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Keith Galbraith