Mark Harper
City Councilman Fate Texas at City of Fate- Claim this Profile
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Ted Brufke
Working with Mark is always a pleasure, he is smart, builds great relationships with customers, technically on target, creative and manages his time well. I consider it a pleasure that we get to work together frequently.
Matthew Milza, CCSP
Mark and I have worked on many engagements together over the past several years. Mark is dedicated to client success and pays great attention to detail. He works very hard and is very reliable. Mark has always come through for me in critical situations.
Ted Brufke
Working with Mark is always a pleasure, he is smart, builds great relationships with customers, technically on target, creative and manages his time well. I consider it a pleasure that we get to work together frequently.
Matthew Milza, CCSP
Mark and I have worked on many engagements together over the past several years. Mark is dedicated to client success and pays great attention to detail. He works very hard and is very reliable. Mark has always come through for me in critical situations.
Ted Brufke
Working with Mark is always a pleasure, he is smart, builds great relationships with customers, technically on target, creative and manages his time well. I consider it a pleasure that we get to work together frequently.
Matthew Milza, CCSP
Mark and I have worked on many engagements together over the past several years. Mark is dedicated to client success and pays great attention to detail. He works very hard and is very reliable. Mark has always come through for me in critical situations.
Ted Brufke
Working with Mark is always a pleasure, he is smart, builds great relationships with customers, technically on target, creative and manages his time well. I consider it a pleasure that we get to work together frequently.
Matthew Milza, CCSP
Mark and I have worked on many engagements together over the past several years. Mark is dedicated to client success and pays great attention to detail. He works very hard and is very reliable. Mark has always come through for me in critical situations.
Credentials
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IBM Technology Excellence
IBMJan, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps Sales Foundation
IBMNov, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Cloud for Financial Services Sales Foundation V2
IBMNov, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Cloud Pak for Security Sales Foundation v2
IBMOct, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Instana by IBM Sales Foundation
IBMAug, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Turbonomic by IBM Sales Foundation
IBMAug, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Cloud Pak for Data - Collect Sales Foundation
IBMJul, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Garage Essentials
IBMJul, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Team Solution Design
IBMJun, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Virtual Collaborator
IBMOct, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
Docker Essentials: A Developer Introduction
IBMSep, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications - Administrator (Exploration **)
IBMSep, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications - Architect (Exploration **)
IBMSep, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications - Developer (Exploration **)
IBMSep, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications - Explorer
IBMSep, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
Virtual Selling - Foundation
IBMSep, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
Virtual Selling - Foundation
IBMSep, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
Data Science Foundations - Level 1
IBMJun, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
Data Science Foundations - Level 2 (V2)
IBMJun, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Cloud Private - Technical Bootcamp
IBMMar, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Recognized Teacher/ Educator
IBMMar, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
Getting Started with Containers on IBM Cloud
IBMFeb, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Cloud Private - Foundation Technology
IBMFeb, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
The Weather Company - Technical Knowledge
IBMSep, 2018- Sep, 2024 -
Cloud & Cognitive Patterns
IBMSep, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Blockchain Essentials
IBMSep, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
Watson Conversation Service Foundations
IBMSep, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
Big Data Foundations - Level 1
IBMAug, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Design Thinking Practitioner
IBMJun, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Mentor
IBMJun, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
Level 2 Support Smart Cloud Notes
IBMJun, 2017- Sep, 2024 -
IT Specialist Profession Certification - Level 2
IBMNov, 2016- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Certification Exam Developer 2015 - Level I
IBMFeb, 2016- Sep, 2024 -
SevOne Network Performance Management Sales Foundation
IBMJun, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
Professional Certification: Master Certified Technical Specialist, Package Application Implementation
The Open GroupMar, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
Technical Specialist Profession Certification - Level 2
IBMMar, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
IBM Selling Profession Certification - Level I
IBMSep, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
IoT - Intro to IBM IoT Connected Vehicle Insights
IBMJul, 2018- Sep, 2024 -
IoT - Intro to IBM IoT Connection Service
IBMJul, 2018- Sep, 2024 -
IoT - Intro to IBM IoT Safer Workplace
IBMJul, 2018- Sep, 2024
Experience
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City of Fate
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United States
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Government Administration
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1 - 100 Employee
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City Councilman Fate Texas
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May 2023 - Present
Elected Council Member 2023 -2026 Elected Council Member 2023 -2026
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IBM
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Account Technical Leader, IBM Technology, National Market West
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Jan 2022 - Present
Work hand-in-hand with the client to build and execute an IBM Client Technical Strategy (CTS) that is based on the client's business and technical challenges, strategies, and priorities. Responsible for showcasing IBM and IBM Technology to the client. I have a deep and strong POV and are the leading advocate for the Technology Decision Points.
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Software Client Architect - Distribution Market
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Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
Assume overall technical responsibility for the success of proposed solution design, solution content, solution construction, and solution integration in a given infrastructure or industry.Responsible for ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction through comprehensive knowledge of solutions offerings, strategies and direction as it relates to the client's business, infrastructure and industry.Propose high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.Through the use of pre-sales methodologies, apply in-depth knowledge of leading-edge technology solutions with industry and business skills to influence clients and sell IBM solutions. Show less
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Cloud Technical Sales Specialist - Hybrid Cloud
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Feb 2019 - Jan 2020
• Technical Specialist in the North America Commercial Market/Channels covering IBM Cloud Paks with focus on Aspera, IBM Blockchain and IBM Cloud Pak for Apps.• Working with Offering Management, IBM Brand teams and Red Hat teams to ensure IBM solutions meet customer requirements, identify key blockers to engagements and success. • Assist in the creation of enablement assets for the field teams to help with positioning of environments (Private Clouds, Public Clouds, muti-vendor environments), work with IBM infrastructure centers to advise on building hands-on development environments and develop and deliver enablement materials to build partner skills.• Advise Sales Leadership on client situations and sales opportunity progress, issues as well as work with product management and support to remove blockers for customer deployments.• Business Impacts - Led implementation of Aspera product at Insurance company to move large data sets between data centers saving customer 100k annually and reducing time by more than 50% Show less
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IBM Connections Cloud/Domino Technical Leader for North America
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Jan 2010 - Feb 2019
• Technical Subject Matter Expert covering North America with deep technical skills for IBM's cloud-based collaboration and email solution.• Successful implementation of large enterprise and SMB customers on IBM Connections Cloud• Duties include:o Deliver competitive sales in area of cloud computing and on premises implementations of email and collaborative environments.o Conduct TCO analysis for customers demonstrating the cost benefit of moving to the cloudo Conduct deep dive workshops on moving organizations to the cloud including migrations, cloud security, and cloud integration with on premises environments.o Drove year to year growth of 440% for IBM Connections Cloud.• Business impactso Led the migration of 10,000 students to cloud for large Fashion College improving onboarding process and student experience.o Led the migration of 17,500 users of a large Advertising Firm to IBM cloud cutting ongoing maintenance costs by 30% using cloud. o Led implementation at large grocery retailer of cloud system to cut marketing to sales lead times by 50% allowing customer to beat competitors to market with products. Show less
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Consulting IT Specialist Quickr/Connections SME
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Jan 2007 - Jan 2010
• Technical sales Subject Matter Expert for Lotus Quickr/Lotus Connections.• Responsibility included meeting with customers on IBM's social software vision as well as technical guidance to customers in social software.• Worked with IBM development to refine product from beta to production release
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Sr. IT Specialist IBM Software Services for Lotus
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Nov 1998 - Jan 2007
• Services Consultant responsible for implementation of IBM solutions and services including messaging migrations and system implementation.• Responsibilities also included leading technical teams in the implementation of IBM solutions as well.
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Perot Systems
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United States
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Associate
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May 1996 - Nov 1998
Worked on Parsons account from original study of MIS to Contract signing. Worked as Senior Mail engineer supporting 130+ cc:Mail and MsMail post offices with over 9,000 users. Duties included traveling to client locations designing and implementing mail solutions for both domestic and international offices. Acted as Operations manager in Parsons Pasadena Location for first six month of contract. Also assisted in implementation of deskside support organization for Parsons. Worked with infastucture mail team on maintenance and third level trouble shooting of 80+ cc:Mail post offices with over 13,000 users. Worked on Several proposals for customer mail system installations. Show less
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Dal-Tile
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United States
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Wholesale Building Materials
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1 - 100 Employee
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Systems Engineer
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Oct 1995 - May 1996
Responsible for managing 3 desktop support technicians. Scheduling work, vacations and providing reviews. Responsibilities also included maintenance and trouble shooting of six cc:Mail post offices. Responsibilities also included maintenance and trouble shooting of Novell and Microsoft NT file servers Responsible for managing 3 desktop support technicians. Scheduling work, vacations and providing reviews. Responsibilities also included maintenance and trouble shooting of six cc:Mail post offices. Responsibilities also included maintenance and trouble shooting of Novell and Microsoft NT file servers
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Nations Bank
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United States
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Banking
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1 - 100 Employee
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Lotus Notes Admin
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Dec 1993 - Oct 1995
Day to day administration of both Lotus Notes and Lotus cc:Mail systems Responsibilities included end user support as well as server management and deployment. Managed one employee who also had the duties of managing the Lotus email environment. Day to day administration of both Lotus Notes and Lotus cc:Mail systems Responsibilities included end user support as well as server management and deployment. Managed one employee who also had the duties of managing the Lotus email environment.
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