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Datatrend offers a challenging work environment where you have the opportunity to discover and develop the talents that will help you and the company excel. Datatrend has an outstanding benefits package for its employees, and we encourage prospective employees to have a long term outlook. We employ those who have a passion to work in an exciting industry, who will be here for the long term, and who are looking for a career through ongoing growth and advancement. Our core values help describe who we are:

• commitment to excellence
• belief in a strong work ethic
• dedication to honesty and ethics
• teamwork and communication
• great service to customers and other trading partners

We are currently seeking qualified individuals for the following positions:

• Solution Service Sales Rep
  
• Network Services Sales Rep
  
• IT Product Sales Rep
  

Solution Service Sales Rep

The position requires an experienced IT services sales representative with a demonstrated track record of success selling IT related services to the Fortune 1000 market.

The Sales Representative reports to the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing and is responsible for selling Datatrend’s IT Solution Services. The position requires excellent opportunity development, account management and communication skills. The sales representative will be required to have an understanding of business issues and cost drivers that impact a company and how technology solutions can efficiently and cost-effectively address them. The sales representative must be able to manage multiple opportunities and client projects simultaneously, be willing to work flexible hours and travel as necessary. The successful candidate must, at a minimum, be a subject matter expert able to provide credible consulting advice to prospects and customers in the following key service categories:

• Migrations and Conversions – platform and operating system migrations; software conversions; platform and operating system upgrades
• Datacenter Consulting – strategy; best practices processes; process automation; staff augmentation; server, storage, and data center management
• IT Infrastructure Optimization – assessments; virtualization solutions for servers, storage and clients; server and storage containment/consolidation; SAN and NAS networked storage solutions; thin client solutions.
• Business Continuity - backup/restore; disaster recovery; high availability

Please send resume and salary requirements to: darla.nutter@datatrend.com

Network Services Sales Rep

This is a senior Sales Representative position that reports to the Vice President of Sales and Marketing. The position requires excellent opportunity development, account management and communication skills. The Sales Representative will be required to have a thorough understanding of structured cabling solutions, which should include wireless environments. The Sales Representative must be able to sell independently and be fully capable of addressing customers technical, design and engineering questions. The Sales Representative must be able to manage multiple opportunities and client projects simultaneously, be willing to work flexible hours and travel as necessary.

• The qualified candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of successfully selling network and structured cabling services.
• Skills should include LAN, WAN systems, Voice and Data network cabling, low voltage copper, fiber, Cat 3, Cat 5, PBX, telephone, key systems, etc...
• An existing account following/book of business that will minimize ramp up time.
• Industry relationships and experience (e.g. BICSI).

Please send resume and salary requirements to: darla.nutter@datatrend.com

IT Product Sales Rep

This is a senior Sales Representative position that reports to the Vice President of Sales and Marketing. The position requires excellent opportunity development, account management and communication skills. The Sales Representative will be required to have a thorough understanding of understanding of how IT infrastructure solutions can help address client’s business issues and be able to communicate these solutions to the client in a compelling way. The Sales Representative must be able to sell independently and be fully capable of addressing customers technical, design and engineering questions. The Sales Representative must be able to manage multiple opportunities and client projects simultaneously, be willing to work flexible hours and travel as necessary.

• The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of successfully selling IBM Unix (pSeries/AIX), Intel (xSeries) and storage technology solutions to small medium businesses and/or larger enterprises. However, experience in other brand (HP, Sun, Hitachi, etc.) infrastructure will be given strong consideration.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is preferred.
• Knowledge of and sales experience with middleware products (e.g. Tivoli, Websphere, DB2, etc.) and/or enterprise software applications (e.g. SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, etc.) a plus.

Please send resume and salary requirements to: darla.nutter@datatrend.com

System Administrator – Chicago, IL

• Mature system administrator, deep experience with Linux and Solaris.
• Some Oracle database familiarity (working knowledge – does not need to be a DBA)
• Scripting skills with perl, shell, ect…
• Highly desirable: Opsware SAS experience. Training is available.
• Leadership skills as technology champion and liaison between client and Opsware
• Excellent organizational and communication skills

Please send resume and salary requirements to: darla.nutter@datatrend.com

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