Sam Gehret

Washington, DC 20001 · (908) 601-6058 · sam.gehret@gmail.com

A seasoned enterprise sales engineer and full stack web developer with experience in all aspects of the software development life cycle, I combine superior communication skills with a passion for programming to provide technical savvy in all stages of the sales cycle.

Experience

Product Manager, Tysons Corner, VA

MicroStrategy
  • Business leader of 3 scrum teams and owner of Usher Analytics, a platform component that provides self-service analytics on user generated mobile application telemetry.
  • Held weekly 1-on-1s with the CEO and CTO, gathered requirements from stakeholders, translated them into features, and took them to market with a quarterly release cadence.
  • Designed and built dashboards used by C-Level executives to make informed business decisions, as well as demo dashboards used by the sales team to close deals.
January 2017 - Present

Sales Engineer, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

MicroStrategy
  • Lead Sales Engineer for 10+ Account Executives in the Middle East and Africa across multiple verticals such as Government, Finance, Education, Healthcare, Hospitality, and Aviation.
  • Supported the closing of a flashship Usher deal worth $500K+ by conducting a 6 week proof of concept requiring complex systems and directory integration, as well as numerous meetings with C-Level executives.
  • Completed 20+ successful proofs of concept by integrating with enterprise applications such as Active Directory, OKTA, VPNs, and physical access using technologies such as RESTful APIs, SAML, OAuth 2.0, SSL, RADIUS.
  • Created and delivered technical workshops to 50+ MicroStrategy sales engineers at SKO, as well as 500+ customers, partners, and prospects at both MicroStrategy World and Symposium.
October 2015 - January 2017

Product Owner, Tysons Corner, VA

MicroStrategy
  • Product Owner and HR Manager of the “Logical Gateway” scrum team composed of 6 engineers. Led the team through two-week sprints culminating in the delivery of shippable increments of software using agile methodology.
  • Delivered software components to a Java server, Android and iOS Mobile Clients, and a PHP/JavaScript admin console.
October 2012 - October 2015

Technology Associate, Tysons Corner, VA

MicroStrategy
  • Gained comprehensive exposure to the technology industry through a rotational program within MicroStrategy’s Technology department in the following areas: Beta Consulting, Quality Engineering, and Technical Support.
August 2011 - October 2012

Education

Dartmouth College

Bachelor of Arts
Economics with Engineering, concentration in Finance and Financial Markets
September 2007 - June 2011

General Assembly, Washington, DC

Web Development Immersive
January 2018 - April 2018

Skills

Technical Skills

RESTful API Integration • Javascript • HTML • CSS • MongoDB • Node.js • React • Ruby on Rails • SQL • SSL • Linux • Identity Management • SAML • Directory Integration • Analytical Dashboarding

Portfolio

CITIHIKES, www.citihikes.com

What is it?

Ever had a nice day on the weekend, wanted to go for a hike, but didn’t know where to hike or what to do? Citi Hikes is a full stack JavaScript application and hike blog.

Check it out on Github

  • Integrates RESTful APIs from The Hiking Project and Mapbox
  • Full Stack application built on the MEHN stack. MongoDB, Express, HandleBars, and Node.js.
  • User authentication using Passport.
  • Deployed to Heroku, with an MLAB Mongo DB.