Ted Turkington

Working on my golf and tennis games!

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States

About

I have a broad background in IT sales and operations with a history of helping companies solve big problems. Most recently, I have been focused on cloud migrations and application modernization within the AWS ecosystem. I'd like to find a role where I can leverage my experience with a broad range of technologies and help customers achieve their business goals. Please connect with me if I can be of service.

Experience

  • Retired at Self Employed
    Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Regional Sales Manager at Effectual
    Sep 2020 - Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos

    Effectual, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, is an innovative, cloud first, security first managed and professional services company that works with commercial enterprises and the public sector to enable IT modernization and mitigate risk. Effectual designs, migrates, optimizes, and manages secure modern cloud environments for public and private sector organizations across AWS, VMware, and VMware Cloud on AWS.

  • Director of Sales, Eastern Region at Violin Systems
    Nov 2018 - Sep 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Violin was the pioneer in flash storage has been providing extreme reliability and extreme performance storage for over a decade. Key features that differentiate our products from the competition are: - True Active/Active Controllers – both controllers can access the same volume at the same time. - Matrix RAID Architecture – allows for 100% performance at 100% capacity. Violin gives you 20% more usable capacity with no degradation in performance! It also allows you to use all of the storage while reducing risk with our logical drive sparing. A big plus as we now have 30TB SSDs! It also provides load balancing and self-healing capabilities to extend the useful life of your flash storage investment. - Self-encrypting NVMe Drives - included at no additional cost. Why should you have to choose between price and security? - Deduplication at the Volume Level - databases need performance and images/.pdf don’t dedupe well. Violin gives you options to simplify administration and get optimum effective capacity without affecting performance. Set it and forget it. - US Based Support – All of our support is provided by US based technicians. All of this is available in a 2U footprint that can scale from 14TB usable to over 450TB usable in the same chassis!

  • Territory Manager, Healthcare at Veeam Software
    Jan 2018 - Nov 2018 · 11 mos

    The Always-On Business is here to stay and legacy backup solutions can’t keep up. Veeam is committed to making Availability for the Always-On Enterprise a reality for your organization by helping you: * Meet or exceed business objectives with RTPO of < 15 min for ALL applications and data * Mitigate risks and increase ROI by leveraging your investments in virtualization, storage and cloud technologies * Reduce capital and operational costs to enable additional IT and business initiatives The good news is that you’re not alone. Veeam helps over 282,000 customers worldwide protect 16.3 million VMs—and counting. And now Veeam can help protect physical and cloud workloads!

  • Territory Sales Director at MapR Technologies
    Jan 2017 - Jan 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

    MapR provides the industry’s only converged data platform that uniquely allows applying analytical insights to operational processes in real-time to create competitive advantage for our customers. Our vision is of a platform that converges historically separate product segments/categories in order to enable extraordinary new value never before possible. The MapR Platform is powered by the industry’s fastest, most reliable, secure, and open data infrastructure that dramatically lowers TCO and enables global real-time data applications.