Min-Hsao Chen, PE, CISSP

Sales Engineering Manager at Gigamon

Seattle, Washington, United States

About

SALES /SALES ENGINEERING - Over 14 years of Sales Engineering experience - Multiple years of qualifying for Top Sellers Presidents Club awards and exceeding quota COMMUNICATIONS - Excellent and effective verbal and written communications skill (English and Chinese) - Unique ability to simplify complex technical subjects into something easily understood and relevant to the target audience - Presented in multiple national and international conferences - Developed multiple long-term communications technology master plans for various clients - Experienced in developing document style guides for standardizing and improving document production efficiency LEADERSHIP - Over 20 years of leadership role experience in the information technology field - President, Seattle Area Auburn University Alumni Club, 2008-2011,2018-2022 - President, Chinese Student Association at Auburn University (1998-1999) - Energetic, friendly, efficient, and effective team-orientated individual, who strongly believes in mutual development and cross-training among his peers MANAGEMENT - Over 15 Years of telecommunications and project management experiences - Experiences from the various project in budget management, financial oversight, strategic planning, and risk management - Experience in creating financial and budgeting models (CAPEX and OPEX) and creating cost-benefit analysis TELECOMMUNICATIONS & TECHNOLOGY - Over 8 years of experience with data centers and large wide area network (WAN) infrastructure supporting and corporate Local Area Network management and design - Over 6 years of Wireless technology experience including Land Mobile Radio, distributed antenna systems (DAS), and wireless local area networks (IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ad) - Over 4 years of Gigabit Fiber to the Home (FttH) experiences - Experienced in IPTV video headend design and implementation - Experiences in Network Performance tools such as Network Instruments Observer, Ixia packet generator, Ixia Chariot - Designed multiple large phone systems for power utilities, hospitals, hotels, and higher education institutions INFORMATION ASSURANCE - Experience with DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) - Masters of Science in Information Assurance from Iowa State University (2009) - CISSP

Experience

  • Gigamon ()
    • Sales Engineering Manager
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

      Leading the US West SE Team

    • Consulting Sales Engineer
      Jan 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

      - 2024/2023/2022/2021/2020 Gigamon Top Seller's Club (5 years in a row) - 2023 Top Sales Engineer North America Enterprise - 2021 Seattle/ Portland Cyber Security Summit Panel Speaker (https://cybersecuritysummit.com/summit/seattleportland21/) - 2022 Gigamon Innovation Fair Honorable Mention - 2020 Gigamon Innovation Fair Finalist and Winner - 2019 Gigamon Innovation Fair Finalist - 2017 Gigamon Top Sellers Club and exceeded quota - 2016 Gigamon Innovation Fair Finalist

    • Senior Sales Engineer
      Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Sales Engineer at BlueCat
    Feb 2014 - May 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    2015 Exceeded BlueCat sales engineer quota 2015 Most Valuable Performer (MVP) SE 2015 Heavy Hitter Award - Develop and design unique solutions based on customer’s business needs and requirements - Provide technical pre-sales support to the sales team on BlueCat products - Deliver on-site and WebEx technical presentations - Function as the key technical resource in the development of network design, architecture, and cost models to support quotations and customer’s engineering changes - Point of contact for new customers relating to technical information about BlueCat Products - Provide technical and product information at trade shows, seminars and speaking engagements - Assist in responding to proposals and RFPs and presenting products to key decision makers at the executive levels

  • Senior Technology Consultant at Sparling
    May 2007 - Feb 2014 · 6 yrs 10 mos

    Specializing in the long-term operational and planning issues for our healthcare, higher education, military, public safety and corporate clients. Technology includes Information Technology, Data Networking , Wireless Technology, and Information Assurance and Security. Examples of some of my Current and Past Project responsibilities include the following: - Developed a comparative analysis of wireless systems distribution approaches in a complex healthcare environment for a University Medical Center in Southern California - Technology Master Plan development for Major Bellevue, WA developer (Technologies included Networking, Telephony system, Distributed Antenna System, Building Management System, Wireless LAN, and Security Systems) - IT systems Risk Assessments for NYULMC - Wireless System Design Consulting and Engineering - Wireless Systems Master Planning for various clients - Telephony System developement for various clients - US NAVY Industrial Control System (ICS) Communications Design and Planning - US NAVY Fire Alarm Communications System Design and Planning - Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) specification development for multiple public safety clients - DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) development for the US NAVY - Preformed coverage map analysis with EDX’s Signal Pro and in building signal coverage analysis using Microsoft Excel and iBwave.

  • Senior Telecommunications Engineer at Grant County PUD
    Oct 2003 - May 2007 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Responsible for providing and managing telecommunications solutions for GCPUD’s production needs. This includes management for the PUD’s internal two-way radio project, VoIP telephone system, WAN/LAN data systems, and the county-wide 1000Mb/s Fiber-to-the-Home (FttH) network. - Successfully developed a standardize talk group plan for the District’s two way radio system. - Successfully deployed a new maintenance plan for the aging two way radio system for the district - Successfully developed, acquired, and deployed over 1 million dollars of the outdoor Optical Network Termination equipment used by the Grant County PUD’s FttH Project - Successfully designed a dual T1 ring using Coastcom channel banks for radio redundancy - Successfully designed and implement a redundant microwave T1 link to Wahitis Peak - Designed and maintain a working lab for FTTH project testing. - Designing and improving the auto provisioning system on the Grant County PUD FTTH network for over 5000 fiber optics network access portals using DHCP and TFTP - Designed an Open Source VoIP PBX for a small contractor office using ASTERISK PBX and SIP protocol. - Successfully designed and managed the VoIP conversion project for Priest Rapids Dam - Troubleshoot, Identified, and resolved a variety of VoIP related problems on the Grant County’s Grant County PUD FTTH Network - Maintained and Managed Grant County PUD’s Cisco Call Manager and Cisco Internet Protocol Contact Center (IPCC) - Maintained and Managed the Nuera RD-21 VoIP Media Gateway - Maintained and Managed a high-traffic network of 300+ channels of streaming IP video over the FttH network - Designed Autoprovisioning system for Network terminals based on DHCP and TFTP.

  • Telecom Engineer at El Paso
    Jun 1999 - Oct 2003 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    Responsible for providing communication solutions for El Paso Corporation. This includes LAN/WAN, voice/video, wireless LAN systems, and SCADA systems communication, automated disaster recovery system. - Successfully deployed multiple remote field office Voice over IP trunk connections over an IP network via a Cisco router to a Nortel Norstar key system. - Successfully deployed multiple Nortel Norstar Key system in remote field offices via T1 circuits back to the corporate headquarter. - Successfully implemented Nortel’s Automated Call Distributor (ACD) solution. - Successfully design and implemented a rogue AP scanning script for locating rogue APs with in Corp network - Successfully designed, developed, and implemented a corporate wide self-healing disaster recovery system for the remote field locations. - Successful developed a web based SNMP monitor system for the Network Operation Center (NOC) to monitor the conditions of the disaster recovery system