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Supporting customers and Arcad sales representatives in finding the right solution for the customers DevOps needs around the IBM i. This is what you can call my day job. ;)You will also find my writing blog articles for our website and external vendors around all the needs regarding the DevOps world around the IBM i. If I'm not writing a blog or an article, then I'm presenting demonstrations for our customers directly or as a panelist in a webinar. My focus areas are DevOps for… Show more Supporting customers and Arcad sales representatives in finding the right solution for the customers DevOps needs around the IBM i. This is what you can call my day job. ;)You will also find my writing blog articles for our website and external vendors around all the needs regarding the DevOps world around the IBM i. If I'm not writing a blog or an article, then I'm presenting demonstrations for our customers directly or as a panelist in a webinar. My focus areas are DevOps for IBM i and the protection of data through our Anonymization tools. Show less

Technical sales leadership role focusing on the Cloud Managed Services on System i offering within the IBM Services Hybrid Cloud Services portfolio. - Mentored sales representatives through engagements to spread knowledge of product offerings, showing how to interact with clients professionally.- Developed calculator to present initial pricing, reducing original turnaround time from 5 days to 30 minutes.- Engaged teams with collaborative solutions, increasing contract value.

Expanded leadership to include both regulated and non-regulated clients. Clients included leaders in distribution, healthcare, and public sectors.I oversee four federally regulated iSeries accounts for commercial customers. In this I monitored over 35 servers and several system admins and operations departments.As part of this role, I moved into non-regulated accounts as well. The server count was over 200+ IBMi images with High Availability, a dozen administrators, and multiple… Show more Expanded leadership to include both regulated and non-regulated clients. Clients included leaders in distribution, healthcare, and public sectors.I oversee four federally regulated iSeries accounts for commercial customers. In this I monitored over 35 servers and several system admins and operations departments.As part of this role, I moved into non-regulated accounts as well. The server count was over 200+ IBMi images with High Availability, a dozen administrators, and multiple client teams. Show less

Worked as system admin, operator, tape operations. Included CL Programming, High Availability Monitoring

Worked as a brand champion to spread the word and share information about the Pearl Izumi brand, particularly around the running division.