Ron Dekker
Country Manager, Canada at Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRonald J. Dekker is a seasoned technology and go-to-market leader with over 25 years of experience and eight years leading Check Point Software Technologies in Canada as Country Manager. He combines deep enterprise sales and executive management experience—from founding and scaling Canada’s leading VoIP provider to growing Cisco’s enterprise accounts—with a strong focus on cybersecurity productization and channel orchestration. At Check Point he partners technical teams who build R80 management APIs and orchestration tools with large enterprise customers, translating complex security engineering into practical operational solutions. A strategic board advisor and repeat operator, he has steered multiple companies to successful exits while maintaining hands-on involvement in GTM execution and partner ecosystems. Based in Toronto and holding a BA in Economics and Computer Science from Western, Ron blends commercial acumen with technical literacy to drive growth in security-critical markets.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Economics, Computer Sci., B.A., Economics, Computer Sci. at Western University13, 13 at Montcalm Secondary School
Github Skills (19)
ansible-module10
security-policy10
netmiko9
cisco9
juniper8
wordpress8
security8
tar8
python-development7
firewall7
api7
database7
database-management6
ansible6
python6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CheckPointSW/cpAnsible
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
Ansible module provides control over a Check Point Management server using Check Point's web-services APIs.
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 37 pushes in 8 months
ansible-moduleansibleweb-servicespointserver-management
CheckPointSW/ShowPolicyPackage
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
Check Point ShowPolicyPackage tool shows the content of a policy package (layers, rulebase, objects) over HTML pages.
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
policypackage-policywordpressrulebasepoint
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