Dragos Cazaceanu

Bridging cybersecurity and business risk. I help organizations cut through security noise, uncover real threats, and build detection and response programs that reduce risk.

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany

About

Helping businesses stay ahead of cyber threats with tailored security solutions. Experienced in MDR/XDR, SOC operations, and security frameworks, I bridge the gap between technical challenges and business needs. Passionate about pre-sales, PoCs, and security architecture, I deliver strategic guidance for a stronger security posture. Let’s connect to discuss how to enhance your cybersecurity resilience! 🚀

Experience

  • Senior Sales Engineer MDR at Sophos
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • ForeNova Technologies (Remote)
    • Technical Product Manager EDR
      Nov 2023 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

      - A "single point of contact" for everything endpoint in terms of technical knowledge, delving into comprehensive market research, engaging with partners, and assessing the usage of partner and customer enablement tools. - Cultivating a profound understanding of customer needs and wants, harnessing data to guide product direction and growth, ensuring our solutions are tailored to user requirements. - Managing ForeNova EDR release success: internal QA, beta testing, documentation, training, licensing; all by collaborating with cross-functional teams, including sales, marketing, development, and security, - Leading the creation and management of software requirements to align with our goals. - Owning of all technical documentation related to Forenova EDR. - Contributing to marketing materials related to EDR such as brochures and white papers. - Working seamlessly with Product Marketing and Project Management to ensure the successful execution of our product scope, fostering a unified and synergistic approach. - Acting Product Support to end users and partners, escalation to OEM partners, debugging. - Orchestrating release activities and launch processes in close partnership with Sales, Marketing, and Support teams, ensuring a synchronized and impactful product rollout. - Contributing to Forenova's growth trajectory and position at the forefront of the cyber protection landscape. - In charge of technical training and enablement for internal and external audiences. - Playing a pivotal role in shaping and executing our EDR protection solution by harnessing market insights, translating customer needs into actionable requirements, and collaborating with diverse teams.

    • Technical Sales Engineer / Solutions Architect (DACH)
      Jun 2022 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      - Represent Forenova Technologies in all English and German speaking countries as a technical expert - Communicate and deliver product messaging at all levels, from an SE-level deep dive to a C-level elevator pitch. - Together with the sales teams, build up the funnel, qualify the opportunities and contribute to closing the sales and achieve the sales quota for the territory/region. - Be customer-centric by providing market-leading solutions and support to solve customer problems - Work closely with sales teams to build up sales funnel, qualify opportunities and contribute to closing sales and achieve the sales quota assigned to the territory/region. - Attain quarterly and annual objectives assigned by management - Respond effectively to RFPs - Conduct workshops, enablement, training and certification sessions for Partners. - Conduct detailed product demonstrations and successfully manage Proof of Concepts (POCs) - Deliver product demos, product proof of concepts and technical support during the sales process - Liaise closely with the product organization to capture local market intelligence, and have advanced visibility into our product roadmap - Provide email, phone, on-site and remote assistance for international Forenova Technologies customers. - Build and maintain relationships with Forenova Technologies customers and partners. - Support our local partners with deep product expertise and ad-hoc training to enable them to be more self-sufficient - Participate in regional shows - Create and deliver passionate and motivating presentations, both business-focused, as well as technical. - Strategically position Forenova Technologies with other technologies sold by competitors. - Engage in, and create internal projects that benefit customers. - Keep abreast of the high level market trends in mobile security, including the fast evolving threat landscape. - Overcome sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches.

  • Technical Sales Engineer for (DACH, UK & Romania) at Bitdefender
    Sep 2018 - May 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    - Represent Bitdefender in all English and German speaking countries as a technical expert - Communicate and deliver product messaging at all levels, from an SE-level deep dive to a C-level elevator pitch. - Together with the sales teams, build up the funnel, qualify the opportunities and contribute to closing the sales and achieve the sales quota for the territory/region. - Be customer-centric by providing market-leading solutions and support to solve customer problems - Work closely with sales teams to build up sales funnel, qualify opportunities and contribute to closing sales and achieve the sales quota assigned to the territory/region. - Attain quarterly and annual objectives assigned by management - Respond effectively to RFPs - Conduct workshops, enablement, training and certification sessions for Partners. - Conduct detailed product demonstrations and successfully manage Proof of Concepts (POCs) - Deliver product demos, product proof of concepts and technical support during the sales process - Liaise closely with the product organisation to capture local market intelligence, and have advanced visibility into our product roadmap - Provide email, phone, on-site and remote assistance for international Bitdefender Enterprise customers. - Build and maintain relationships with Bitdefender customers and partners. - Support our local partners with deep product expertise and ad-hoc training to enable them to be more self-sufficient - Participate in regional shows - Create and deliver passionate and motivating presentations, both business-focused, as well as technical. - Strategically position Bitdefender with other technologies sold by competitors. - Engage in, and create internal projects that benefit customers. - Keep abreast of the high level market trends in mobile security, including the fast evolving threat landscape. - Overcome sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches.

  • Backup & Replication Technical Support Engineer at Veeam Software
    Jul 2016 - Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    • Providing bilingual technical support and troubleshooting for Veeam Software’s clients via telephone, email, and web conferencing (Teamviewer / Webex). • Researching and troubleshooting customer problems and inquiries in realation to Veeam Backup and Replication (Networking , VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Windows Server, VSS, SAN, NAS...). • Updating assigned cases in a timely manner. Handling new cases according to the Veeam Service Level Agreement; providing initial support, diagnosing problems and determining the need for escalation. • Performing troubleshooting and analysis, including log file investigation. Proactively staying up to date with all the latest technologies concerning Veeam’s products and the underlying technologies.

  • IBM (Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania)
    • Senior Technical Support Engineer
      Aug 2015 - Jul 2016 · 1 yr

      • Providing initial remote technical software & hardware support to clients (in example: MS Office, Adobe Reader, Lotus Notes, Windows passwords, specific applications passwords, installing printers etc) • Consistently interacting with customer and supervisors to have the issue solved • Analyzing problems/situations, understanding problem impact on client business (in example: Major Incidents, massive software roll outs, etc) • Applying problem solving techniques (and updating specific knowledge bases with useful information required to solve those problems) • Responding to client queries, providing timely resolutions to client issues • Maintaining highest client satisfaction • Maintaining positive client relationships even in severe and pressurized situations • Logging all related activities for each customer query and handling client data securely (ServiceNow - one call = one ticket) • Employing client ‘s standard support delivery methodologies and tools • Performing in international software support delivery processes and environments • Respond to requests for technical assistance in person, via phone, electronically • Following service desk procedures • Performing problem management and end-to-end problem ownership • Redirecting problems to appropriate resource (CT Team in Bucharest, L3 Team in Germany) • Identifying and escalating situations requiring urgent attention (as mentioned, Major Incidents, where lots of user are affected by the same issue at the same time) • Tracking and routing problems and requests and document resolutions • Stay current with system information , changes and updates • Making sure the process conformity and SLAs are accomplished

    • Core Technical Support Engineer
      May 2013 - Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      • Analyzing the root causes for Domino Mail Server And Domino Server Core related issues. • Analyzing Crash Dumps and core files and logs in order to establish the cause of the issue • Troubleshooting & configuring Lotus Notes mail clients / calendar issues. • Investigating mailbox corruption issues • Investigating synchronization and replication issues • Providing support via mail and phone to IBM Premier customers from Germany, Austria & Switzerland as well as for English-speaking customers worldwide. Collaborating with other support teams or support tiers in weekly triages in order to find rapid solutions for service requests / incidents.