Over 15 years of technology experience across technology consulting, product sales and support services in Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Citrix, and IBM. Current active interests are on NFV, SDN, Cloud, and enterprise architectures. KEY AWARDS • 2013 Microsoft Q4 Award for Cloud Services, Devices & Apps, Malaysia • 2011 HP Outstanding Sales Award, Business Critical Systems, Asia Pacific & Japan • 2010 HP Elite APJ Top Sales of the Year Award, Enterprise Servers Storage & Networking, Malaysia STRENGTHS • Cloud and data center technologies • Strong communication skills to bridge between technology and business. • Strong influencing skills to convert product benefits into business outcomes. • Deal orchestration of complex sales involving multiple internal/external stakeholders • Good relationships with existing/new clients/partners and establishing win-win value propositions • Market business development strategy and territory planning SOLUTON SALES • Flexible & adaptable approach in every stage of clients’ buying process • Direct sales engagements with C-level clients while leveraging channels partners to extend market reach • Ability to manage major enterprise clients in IT and non-IT within the organization • Collaborations across business units and cross-geographical virtual teams • Excellent people management, especially in building teamwork and managing conflicts TECHNOLOGY • Cloud & virtualization (HP Helion, Citrix CloudPlatform, VMware, AWS, MS Azure, OpenStack, CloudStack) • Mission critical UNIX servers (HP, IBM) and Wintel x86 servers (Microsoft, Linux) • Mid-range to high-end storage (HP) • Business productivity (MS Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Yammer, Google Apps for Work)

Enterprise Architect, Technology Services Consulting - South East Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong (SEATH) @ • Help enterprise clients align technology solutions to achieve business objectives, advisory on technologies/architectures in IT Infrastructure solutions around server, network, storage, security, and data management • Works with cross-division functional teams in large/complex/strategic deals • Cloud Infrastructure and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Infrastructure From February 2015 to Present (11 months) SingaporeCloud Business Manager, Cloud Division @ • Help enterprise clients and channel partners on cloud strategies and transformation journey to an open, secure, and agile hybrid IT environment. • Solution sales for the HP Helion cloud portfolio, addressing the hybrid IT delivery models, with end-to-end hardware, software, consulting, and implementation services, across traditional IT, private clouds, managed virtual private clouds, and public clouds. • IaaS solutions based on OpenStack and PaaS app. dev. platform solutions, based on Cloud Foundry. From May 2014 to January 2015 (9 months) ASEAN Sales Manager, Cloud Platforms Group @ Drives market development on Citrix Cloud Platform business in ASEAN. From November 2013 to April 2014 (6 months) Solution Sales Specialist, Office 365 @ Drives new business and user adoption of Microsoft Office 365, the SaaS subscription-based cloud solution for email, collaboration, unified communications, enterprise social and Office suite. Serves cloud-ready enterprise clients in Malaysia. Lead the team in winning 2 large complex deals with a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Malaysia and a multinational airline company. From January 2012 to October 2013 (1 year 10 months) Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaBusiness Manager, HP Business Critical Systems @ Specialized in HP Integrity unix servers, data center converged infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions. HP Accredited Sales Professional for HP Enterprise Servers & Storage solutions. From April 2010 to January 2012 (1 year 10 months) Technical Presales Solution Architect, Server, Storage, Networking @ Technical solution architect for mission critical infrastructure and data center solutions on HP Enterprise Servers and Storage. From April 2006 to April 2010 (4 years 1 month) IT Specialist, IBM Power Systems and AIX @ Technical support and project deployments on IBM POWER unix servers, AIX & OS-related software deployments, HACMP high-availability clusters, and Tivoli Storage Manager backup solutions. From April 2005 to April 2006 (1 year 1 month) Account Support Manager & Server Storage Technical Support @ Server / storage hardware and HP-UX software technical support & escalations, project deployments, and client account management. From April 1999 to April 2005 (6 years 1 month)

B.Sc., Computer Science @ Arkansas State University Melvin Leong is skilled in: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Business Critical Systems (HP-UX unix servers), IBM POWER Systems (AIX unix servers), Infrastructure Planning, Solution Architecture, Microsoft Office 365, Big Data Analytics (Vertica), Cloud Solutions, Enterprise Storage (HP, IBM), Blade Servers, x86 Wintel / Linux servers, Project Management, Technical & Client Account Management, Account Management