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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Leading Application Networking & Security Solution Engineers and Technology Adoption Managers across APAC region. Technical leader focused on helping our Customers & Partners address their business problems & while helping them on their platform transformation & security journey. The application networking & security team focuses on helping our customers navigate the application performance, load balancing, platform security, gateway security and other security challenges arising from adoption of multiple cloud platforms, modern applications, consistent policy enforcement across entire organisational domain and legacy systems.

Australia

Head of specialist architects representing the cloud infrastructure solutions for Broadcom across APAC region. Technical leader focused on helping our Customers & Partners address their business problems & while helping them on their platform transformation journey. The cloud infrastructure architect team focuses on helping our customers navigate the platform challenges arising from adoption of multiple cloud platforms, modern applications, consistent policy enforcement across entire organisational domain and legacy systems.

Sydney, Australia

Director of Solutions Engineering representing the Networking & Security business for VMware in ANZ. Technical leader for Pre-sales Solution Engineers focused on helping our Customers & Partners address their business problems & while helping them on their digital transformation journey. The Networking & Security solution engineering team focuses on helping our customers navigate the networking & security challenges arising from adoption of multiple cloud platforms, modern applications, consistent policy enforcement across entire organisational domain and legacy systems.

Sydney, Australia

Technical leader representing the Software-Defined Datacentre business unit for VMware in ANZ. Leading a team of Pre-sales Specialist Engineers focused on helping our Customers & Partners address their business problems & digital transition.Helping the ANZ team build & drive Channel for NSX, vSAN & Cloud management sales & delivery.VMware is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility. VMware accelerates customers’ digital transformation journey by enabling enterprises to master a software-defined approach to business and IT.VMware NSX is the network virtualization platform that delivers the operational model of a virtual machine for networking and security. Similar to VMs for compute, virtual networks are programmatically provisioned and managed independent of the underlying network hardware – transforming data centre networking and making possible new levels of security, automation, and application continuity.VMware NSX enables the replication of entire networks and their security functions in software, allowing network topology to be created in minutes and bringing with it an inherently more secure architecture.

Sydney, Australia

Engineering leader for our Partner community, NSW & WA States in Australia.- Technical lead for Partner organisation in Australia & responsible for our strategic engagements in the partner community.- Leading technical customer engagements across all segments in NSW & WA states in Australia.- Responsible for key strategic customer relationships in NSW & WA states in Australia.- Leading key technical relationships in our partner community to drive Cisco differentiation & investment.- Leading technology & market trends discussions with our partners & customers while highlighting their impact on our partnership & customer outcomes.- Leading various partner enablement activities delivering partner education, learning, enablement & readiness.

Sydney, Australia

Leading a team of pre-sales engineers responsible for our partner community & commercial market segment.- Technical lead for partner organisation and internal account teams responsible for our partners & commercial market segment.- Leading key relationships in Partner technical community to drive Cisco value proposition & investment.- Supporting commercial engineering teams with key customer deals & relationships.- Leading various partner enablement activities delivering partner education, learning, enablement & readiness.- Leading the Virtual Territory SE pilot in APJ.- Lead engineering manager at Cisco Live Melbourne responsible for our partner insight program, partner engagement and case studies.- Lead for DevNet program at Cisco Live Melbourne 2016.- Representing APJC region at the Global Partner engineering forums and meetings.- Leading technology & market trends discussions with our partners & impact on our partnership & customer opportunities.- Recipient of Manager Excellence Award - 2015

Sydney, Australia

Leading a team of pre-sales engineers responsible for our partner community.- Technical lead for partner organisation and internal account teams responsible for our partners.- Leading key relationships in Partner technical community to drive Cisco value proposition & investment.- Lead engineering manager for our Data Centre specialist teams.- Leading various partner enablement activities delivering partner education, learning, enablement & readiness.- Lead engineering manager at Cisco Live Melbourne responsible for our partner insight program, partner engagement and case studies.- Lead for DevNet program at Cisco Live Melbourne 2015.- Representing APJC region at the Global Partner engineering forums and meetings.- Leading technology & market trends discussions with our partners & impact on our partnership & customer opportunities.

Sydney, Australia

Leading a team of pre-sales engineers responsible for our partner community & commercial market segment.- Technical lead for partner organisation and internal account teams responsible for our partners & commercial market segment.- Lead engineering manager for our Data Centre specialist teams.- Leading various partner enablement activities delivering partner education, learning, enablement & readiness.- Lead engineering manager at Cisco Live Melbourne responsible for our partner engagement and case studies.- Representing APJC region at the Global Partner engineering forums and meetings.- Leading technology & market trends discussions with our partners & customers highlighting impact on our partnership & customer opportunities.

Sydney, Australia

Stand-in as Regional Sales Manager responsible for our Distribution Partners & Non-named commercial market segment (Jan – May 2012).- Managing Sales Representatives responsible for the non-names customers & Distribution Partners- Responsible for Sales forecast from Commercial Sales representatives & our Distribution Partners- Responsible for developing & leading programs for the Commercial market segment customers

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Leading & Managing team of pre-sales engineers to support internal field sales teams in Europe & Emerging Markets.- Providing Global support for new technology introduction in the sales teams- Part of Global Management team working with culturally & gender diverse team.- Working with Theatre leads to increase Technology Solutions Network program adoption rate.- Leading Global projects and Strategies for the Frontline engineering team.- Technology lead for Unified Communications in the Global Frontline engineering team

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Leading a diverse team in the Sales Associate Program including Sales & Technical members.- Part of Management team responsible for strategic and operational direction of the Cisco Sales Associate Program.- Delivering trainings & sharing personal field experiences in the program with the associates.- Coaching individuals to achieve higher performance and better results by focused skills development- Responsible for communications with regional field sales teams, executive leaders and representatives for Nordic, Mediterranean and UK regions- Organising and participating in various assessments of the associates in the program and also to define improvement plans for them.- Involved in various initiatives through the program like Sales Force, Engineering tools etc.- Member of Core team working on Field Placements for the Associates in various organizations.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Lead for technical pre-sales engineering teams responsible for channel partners and commercial market segment- Leading key pilot in South Africa for sales force usage for systems engineering in emerging markets- CCIE Boot camp and Ignite program sponsor for South Africa- Leading various partner enablement activities in South Africa including partner virtual team meetings- Technical lead for World of solutions at Networkers Africa 2007. Networkers is the most important user conference for networking professionals and where our customers and partners get opportunity for training, meeting Cisco experts and gather information necessary to keep up with Cisco’s technologies, solutions and products.- Technical lead for Networkers Africa 2008. Networkers is the most important user conference for networking professionals and where our customers and partners get opportunity for training, meeting Cisco experts and gather information necessary to keep up with Cisco’s technologies, solutions and products.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Technical leadership and direction for Dimension Data which is the biggest channel partner in South Africa- Focused on Unified Communications as a technology- Technical lead for Unified Communications for South Africa- Member of Unified Communications virtual team- Member of Unified Communications emerging markets and Global technical advisory group teams- Presented at various Cisco and industry events on Unified Communications including internal and partners virtual team meetings in Amsterdam- Recipient of Channel SE of the year South Africa award for FY 2007- Recipient of Channel SE of the year South Africa award for FY 2006- Recipient of Channel SE of the year Middle East and Africa region award for FY 2006- Recipient of Channel SE of the quarter Emerging markets FY 2006

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Technology leadership to account teams in Commercial market segment- Focused on Unified Communications as a technology- Member of technical leadership team for Unified Communications in South Africa- Member of Unified Communications virtual team- Worked with various key & strategic accounts like Toyota, General Motors, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Barloworld, Checkers Hypermarkets, National Ports Authority, Kwazulu Natal metropolitan, University of Kwazulu Natal, Ampath, Ernst & young etc.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Technology leadership to account teams in Service provider market segment- Focused on Network Management as a technology- Worked with various key & strategic accounts like incumbent Telkom, mobile providers such as MTN and Cell C, Eskom, Transtel and Internet Solutions

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Provided technical support to account teams in Enterprise market segment- Technical lead for Demonstration labs in South Africa- Attended Cisco Graduate program in Brussels

Diploma In Computing & Business Studies

Activities and Societies: 1st team for Cricket and 2nd team for Volleyball Full Colours for Cricket Microsoft award for Computing student.

High School

Activities and Societies: School Prefect School Sports Captain and member of Student board Captain of 1st team Cricket (1993 – 1995).