Michael Schumak

As team lead of Pre Sales, part of the Solutions & Services department, I take care that our sales team and channel has access to the right technical expertise and resources to be successful and sell the right product to the right customer at the right time. The pre sales team performs does this either with a product specific approach as well as a holistically with our CARM offering.

Help the sales teams of Exclusive Networks and its resellers in the DACH region to better position our security products with its specific benefits and strengths in various customer situations. I’ll perform this with technical presentations, workshops and vendor bootcamps in our offices or at the reseller onsite. Main focus are the products F5 Networks, Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet, but also cover other products of our portfolio as well.

CISO Oversees the worldwide information technology security of COMPUTERLINKS group. This includes the creation of security policies and establishing standards for all subsidiaries. Information Security Trainer Performs trainings and custom workshops on next generation firewall products of different vendors like FORTINET.

Established a Training Department with focus on virtualized trainings for Palo Alto Networks firewalls. This enables students to attend real life classroom training with all its interactivity and hands on without the additional travel costs and time. Given Sales Presentations about Data Leakage Prevention, Device Control and Device Encryption for enterprises environments.

Teach students stundents everything they need to understand to use Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft Exchange 2010 to bring their company maximum benefit. Impart knowledge in ethical hacking and give students the opportinity to apply the skills in a self developed lab environment. Conception, planning and implementation of "Virtual classroom", an environment where the student can attend training in a virtual environment without the additional costs travelling brings with it.

Teaching official MOC courses (Windows 2000, Exchange 5.5), design and deliver courses regarding Internet security and firewall architecture. Program Manager for a Germany-wide project with DaimlerChrysler Services (debis) AG to update skills of their current system engineers to Windows2000

Responsibility for NT 4.0 Server (MS-Exchange 5.5, RAS, File & Print Server), IBM AS/400 (including connectivity of the clients), Firewall(Checkpoint Firewall-1) as well as the NT 4.0 workstation clients (including helpdesk for questions regarding operating system and MS-Office97).

Planning and Implementation of heterogeneous LAN/WAN environments of AS/400 and PC-networks (DOS, Windows 3.x and Windows 95).

Installation of electronic communication devices (FAX, BTX, TTX, Telex) and educate the office-staff how to get the most benefits out of it.