Performance Profile

Helge Luethgens
Team Manager Technical Sales & Services Germany, Enterprise and Large Enterprise

VERITAS Technologies LLC

Professional Experience

2015 - 2017

Team Manager Technical Sales & Services Germany,
Enterprise and Large Enterprise
VERITAS Technologies LLC

Setup and leadership of the German Presales team for the IM area, consisting of 10 employees of VERITAS, temporary with additional external employees. Personal engagement to key customers and partners, and take-over of keynote presentations at events selected by VERITAS. Pushing the reorganization and the development of the VERITAS Partner Enablement.

2014 - 2015

Team Manager Technical Sales & Services,
Commercial & BE
SYMANTEC Deutschland GmbH

Head of the Presales Team for the German Commercial Area. This team consisted of 10 employees of the three Symantec software segments: Security, Information Management and Backup Exec. Personal engagement to key customers and partners and take over of keynote presentations at events selected by VERITAS. Establishment and expansion of the partnerships.

2012 - 2014

Principal Presales Consultant
SYMANTEC Deutschland GmbH

Support and consulting of Large Enterprise customers from various industries like retail, automotive, energy providers, manufacturing and finance, aligned to the current IM portfolio of Symantec. Continuous overperforming of the specified sales targets while adhering to the technical sales cycle for the IM portfolio. Establishment of customer relations in all hierarchical levels of companies, with the aim of the Trusted Advisor. Support, training and support of partners.

2005 - 2012

Senior Presales Consultant
SYMANTEC Deutschland GmbH

Support and consulting of enterprise customers from various industries like retail, publishing, manufacturing and finance sectors, aligned to the current IM portfolio of VERITAS / Symantec and the Technical Sales Cycle. Establishment of customer relations in all hierarchical levels of companies, with the goal of the Trusted Advisor. Support, training and support of partners.

2000 - 2005

Presales Consultant
VERITAS Technologies LLC

Customer support, implementation of software solutions, product training for customers and employees in the commercial sector, company and product presentations at customers and trade fairs, nationwide support of the sales colleagues, technical support of the partner SEs in the Backup Exec product environment. In the middle of 2003 I changed from Commercial Presales to Enterprise Presales.

1997 - 2000

IT - Organizator
Deutsche Hypothekenbank

Implementation of IT projects, support for relocation planning and implementation of the in-house data center to another location. Creation of documentation. Administration of the Windows server and client environments, as well as the Cisco switches of the IT network.

1995 - 1997

Project Manager
WMD - Workflow Management & Document Consulting

Support to customers in the sectors industry, wholesale and services. The support included organizational consulting and system consulting, bid proposal management, training services, as well as programming and installation of electronic archiving software solutions.

1992 - 1995

IT - Manager
DAMCO

Professional leadership of the IT department. Introduction of a new IT environment in addition to the operation of 6 other IT environments consisting of Windows and UNIX-based landscapes. Coordination and significant support of the internal development of a company-specific forwarding software, including programming with Microsoft Visual Foxpro. Executing of the resulting training measures of the employees.

Education

1990 - 1992

Information and Telecommunication System Support Specialist
Professional School City Nord - Hamburg, Subject of Study: IT and economics, Lecture: CoCoN GmbH, Distribution Partner: IBM (AS/400, IBM System/36)

1979 - 1988

Diploma from German Secondary School qualifying for University Admission or Matriculation
Maerkisches Gymnasium - Iserlohn