Paul Romano

Paul Romano has over two decades of work experience, starting in 1996 with Prudential Insurance, where they served as Vice President and managed a team responsible for UNIX system support. Paul then moved on to Merrill Lynch, where they held a similar role as Vice President of UNIX Engineering. In 2001, they joined Deutsche Bank as Head of SL1 and SL2 support teams for their Global Markets business. Paul managed a team of 15 people and provided support for trading floor desktops and application servers.

In 2003, Paul joined Novartis as an Associate Director, managing a team of 15 system administrators that provided production support for various systems. Paul then transitioned to Symantec in 2008 as a Pre Sales Systems Engineer, serving as the primary technical point of contact for multiple enterprise customers. In this role, they worked with Account Managers to develop and position solutions involving Symantec's products and services.

From 2013 to 2017, Paul worked at EMC as a Senior Isilon Specialist, providing pre-sales technical support to customers in the NYC/NJ area on the Isilon NAS storage product. Paul then joined Pivot3 as a Solutions Architect in 2017, where they focused on pre-sales technical support for video surveillance and hyper-converged infrastructure solutions.

Currently, Paul is a Senior Solutions Architect at Komprise, where they provide pre-sales technical support for a data analytics software solution. Paul covers a territory that includes New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Paul's experience spans a wide range of technical roles in industries including finance, healthcare, and technology.

Paul Romano graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. In terms of certifications, they obtained the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in October 2021, the AWS Technical Partner Accreditation from AWS in September 2021, the AWS Certified Solutions Architect from AWS in April 2017, the CISSP in February 2016, the Technology Architect, Isilon Solutions Specialist Version 1.0 (EMCTA) from EMC in February 2016, the Information Storage Associate Version 2 (EMCISA) from Dell EMC in December 2013, the Symantec Technical Specialist - NetBackup in January 2013, the Symantec Technical Specialist - Storage Foundation in November 2012, the Symantec Technical Specialist - Endpoint Protection in August 2012, the VMware Technical Sales Professional in June 2012, the ITIL V3 in January 2012, the Symantec Technical Specialist - High Availability in September 2011, and the Certificate of Cloud Security (CCSK) in June 2011.