Marlon Smith
About Marlon Smith
Marlon Smith is a Professional Services Engineer at Arista Networks with extensive experience in network technologies and customer engagement.
Professional Experience at Arista Networks
Marlon Smith has been working at Arista Networks since 2021 as a Professional Services Engineer in London, England. At Arista Networks, he utilizes his extensive knowledge in network technologies and his experience in managing customer interactions and engagements in both pre and post-sales environments.
Previous Positions at CommScope and Ruckus Networks
From 2017 to 2021, Marlon Smith served as a Professional Services Consultant at Ruckus Networks, an ARRIS company, and later at CommScope. During this tenure, he worked in London, developing technical designs, configurations, test plans, migration plans, and project Scope of Work packages for Service Provider and Enterprise markets. His role involved ensuring robust customer interactions and maintaining excellent relationships with multi-vendor third-party suppliers.
Career at Brocade and Easynet
Between 2011 and 2017, Marlon Smith worked at Brocade, initially as an OSE and later as a Professional Services Consultant. During his Brocade period, he was stationed at customer sites, handling a wide range of responsibilities including network configurations and migration planning. Prior to that, he was a Backbone Design Engineer at Easynet Global Services from 2007 to 2011, focusing on network infrastructure design.
Early Career and Various Roles
Marlon Smith's early career includes roles at Tiscali Business Services, Equant, IDL, and SITA. From 2005 to 2007, he worked as a Senior IP Network Engineer at Tiscali Business Services. Before that, he served as an IPVPN LifeCycle Manager at Equant and an IP Consultant Specialist at IDL. His introduction to the industry was with SITA as an Internetworking Engineer from 2000 to 2001.
Education in Telecommunications and Electronics
Marlon Smith studied Telecommunications and Electronics at Coventry Technical College from 1992 to 1995. This foundational education has been pivotal in his development of specialized skills in network technologies and telecommunications engineering.