Peter Rizk

Director of Technical Marketing in the Networking BU at NVIDIA

Mountain View, California, United States

About

Experienced in networking, security, storage, performance optimization, technical training, sales and marketing. Constantly learning new skills, while improving existing ones. My goal is to continue my career track in Product Marketing/Technical Marketing. Worked both in the US and Europe.

Experience

  • Dir. Technical Marketing at NVIDIA
    Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • Infoblox ()
    • Sr. Director of Technical Marketing and Solutions Architecture
      Feb 2017 - Jan 2022 · 5 yrs

      • Leading a team of 11 technical marketing engineers and solutions architects in Santa Clara, Tacoma and Bangalore • Responsible for all technical marketing activities related to both Infoblox NIOS (on-premises DDI) and Infoblox SaaS security solutions (Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense that protects users on and off premises, prevents DNS data exfiltration and malware communications) as well as BloxOne DDI (cloud managed remote branch office DDI). • Defining and driving all aspects of the Infoblox Competitive Intelligence (CI) program. • Providing technical leadership for Infoblox public cloud integrations (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and private clouds integrations (VMware, OpenStack) • Evolving Infoblox DDI integration with Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible and Terraform as well as providing technical training to partners, customers and system engineers. • Managing Infoblox security eco-system integrations with over 50 technology partners such as Rapid 7, Tenable, Tufin, Forescout, McAfee, Fortinet, Checkpoint, Palo Alto Networks and Cisco. • Building and maintaining a world-class private cloud infrastructure to run all our demo environments, custom developed cloud portals as well as reporting and analytics.

    • Director of Technical Marketing and Solutions Architecture
      Jul 2014 - Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      • Leading a technical marketing team that is responsible for competitive analysis, product demos, technical training as well as technical collateral development such as solution notes and deployment guides • Leading a solutions architecture team responsible for integrating Infoblox products with technology partners as well as helping with technical activities related to M&A • Building proof of concept integrations with VMware products such as SRM, NSX, vRA, vRO and vSphere web client. • Providing technical leadership for next gen virtualization and cloud products as well as managing several technical initiatives with VMware

    • Sr Product Marketing Manager
      Aug 2011 - Jul 2014 · 3 yrs

      • Responsible for all product marketing activities for the Infoblox DDI (DNS, DHCP, IP Management) product and related technologies. • Responsibilities include creating the appropriate messaging, datasheets, products web pages, whitepapers, customer facing presentations and demos • Provided sales the appropriates tools to enable them to better sell the Infoblox solutions. • Wrote the manuals and built the Infoblox hands-on labs (HOL) for VMworld 2012, 2013 and 2014 which demonstrated IPAM automation capabilities between Trinzic DDI and VMware vCloud Director as well as vCloud Automation Center. • Delivered over 100 presentation to Infoblox customers/prospects on topics related to IPAM automation, virtualization and cloud. • Co-presented at VMworld 2013 (both in San Francisco and Barcelona) regarding Infoblox IPAM automation for vCloud Automation Center and showed a live compelling demo.

  • Product Marketing Manager at PMC-Sierra
    Dec 2008 - Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Product Marketing for SCSI Attached Storage (SAS) 6G controllers and expanders.

  • Technical Marketing Manager (Platform group) at NVIDIA
    Oct 2001 - Sep 2008 · 7 yrs

    • Supported (and created demos for) networking, security, and storage technologies mainly: Gigabit Ethernet and Load Balancing Fail-Over TCP/IP offload Firewall Traffic Prioritization RAID • Wrote data sheets, app notes and technical guides for the latest NVIDIA products • Performed competitive analysis on chipsets from AMD, Intel, and VIA • Worked with business development evaluating various wireless startup companies for possible acquisition • Provided input and guidance to product marketing on writing technology white papers • Provided input on developing the platform group roadmap and strategies • Taught technical training classes to NVIDIA’s field application engineers and customers • Developed training material and demos for CUDA and PHYSX then trained most of NVIDIA’s board partners across the USA

  • Technical Marketing Engineer for GigE and Distributed Firewall at 3Com
    Apr 1998 - Oct 2001 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    • Provided technical training on Gigabit Ethernet, IP Security and Distributed Firewall technology to various 3Com system engineers and customers • Worked with product marketing in defining and rolling out the Distributed Firewall technology and products • Partnered with “Secure Computing” on the development and marketing of the Distributed Firewall where 3Com provided the hardware (3C990 NIC), while Secure Computing provided the firmware and software which included a policy server • Did extensive traveling within the U.S. attending trade shows, technical training, and meeting with customers