Tim Kresler

Technologist and Leader

Greater Chicago Area

About

Tim is an experienced leader having managed both national and regional pre-sales teams to exceeding sales goals. He is able to lead technical and business level discussions at all levels of customer organizations, and is an accomplished public speaker.

Experience

  • Partner Sales Engineer at DDN
    Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    I’m responsible for managing the technical relationship between DDN and Google, focusing on HPC and AI workloads in GCP.

  • Sr. Director of Sales Engineering at Axon
    Jan 2024 - Jun 2026 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    I run Pre-Sales Engineering for Axon in the US. Our team is responsible for all aspects of the presales process. Axon is transitioning from a device company to a full service public safety ecosystem, encompassing digital evidence management, VR, drones, and full AI capabilities. I have led the SE team in this transition, as they move from device technical specialist to experts in providing a compelling, solution oriented narrative.

  • Product Manager at Microsoft
    Jun 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Working for the storage product management team, I am responsible for partnering with our ISVs that build and deploy on Azure. I cover a broad range of partners and work with them from the C-suite to the development teams to tightly integrate our solutions.

  • Qumulo (2 yrs 10 mos)
    • Sr. Technical Product Manager
      Oct 2021 - Jul 2022 · 10 mos

      Responsible for Product Management of Qumulo as a Service in Azure, and the Qumulo solution in Google Cloud Platform

    • Director of Systems Engineering
      Oct 2019 - Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Google (3 yrs)
    • Manager, Cloud Customer Engineering
      Jan 2018 - Oct 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Responsible for managing a team of Cloud Customer Engineers. Our mission is to help customers move their mission critical workloads to the cloud! I lead a team of 6 engineers as they help customers move their business into the cloud.

    • Cloud Sales Engineer
      Nov 2016 - Jan 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos