Alex Raben

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Alliances and Operations @ COOLSPIRiT
Chesterfield, GB
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Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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About Alex Raben

Having worked in the UK technology sector since 1999, I believe in commitment to the task in hand, delivering solutions that make a real difference and offer true business benefits to customers. Delivered by providing honest,real life experiences, advising and deploying on many products and their features across multiple solutions in this industry has helped me grow as an individual and has given me opportunities to develop my career and strengthen my abilities, which I am gratefully thankful for. Customer satisfaction is key and drives me on a daily basis.At COOLSPIRiT we have been providing data management solutions and business critical infrastructure for over 25 years. We are dedicated to the performance, protection and preservation of enterprise data and we take the time to listen to our customers and find out about their businesses. Only then can we solve their problems with solutions that employ the very latest technology. Our business is built on a solid foundation of the relationships we have nurtured and developed over many years, both with our partners and our customers. Every member of our team makes the customers’ needs their first priority and we are committed to selling and delivering the highest quality products and services.With our team of professionals we can not only source the best product for your business data, but we also have the specialist skills required to design, deploy, project manage and support your chosen solution. It’s all about getting things right first time, quickly and simply.Find out how we can help you: www.coolspirit.co.uk | 01246 454 222

Alex Raben's Current Company Details
COOLSPIRiT

Coolspirit

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Alliances and Operations
Chesterfield, GB
Website:
coolspirit.co.uk
Employees:
35
Alex Raben Work Experience Details
  • Coolspirit
    Alliances And Operations
    Coolspirit
    Chesterfield, Gb
  • Coolspirit
    Chief Marketing Officer
    Coolspirit Feb 2021 - Present
    Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Gb
  • Coolspirit
    Brand Strategy Manager
    Coolspirit Oct 2016 - Feb 2021
    Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Gb
    Since joining COOLSPIRiT in March 2006 and having successfully established the Enterprise Solutions team, building the product portfolio we have today, I am extremely proud of the team for successfully achieving double digit growth, year on year. This has been possible by the delivery of numerous successful enterprise data protection and infrastructure projects. This success is also recognised by our many partner vendor awards, given to the team for the commitment and success in delivery customer projects.To help further drive our growth, I have now been promoted within the business to a newly created position of Brand Strategy Manager. This position will build on our existing vendor relations and go-to-market strategies, whilst delivering all sales and technical marketing activities the business requires.By representing our key partner vendors and their technologies, utilising the skills and experience I have gained during my career, this role will ultimately increase customer satisfaction of solutions supplied and deployed by the team at COOLSPIRiT - offering the service our customers have become to trust.
  • Coolspirit
    Enterprise Solutions & Vendor Strategy Manager
    Coolspirit Oct 2014 - Oct 2016
    Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Gb
    Building upon my 8 years’ experience with COOLSPIRiT and our Enterprise Solutions Team, I was still operating in a Pre-Sales capacity in this role and managing the growing team, while having a secondary focus on further helping the business to build strong strategic relationships with our key vendors and suppliers, ensuring our go-to-market strategies are aligned to the ever changing market and client requirement landscape, with the selection and onboarding of new vendors partners and building stronger relationships with exiting partners across all levels of the businesses.
  • Coolspirit
    Enterprise Solutions (Pre-Sales)
    Coolspirit Mar 2006 - Oct 2014
    Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Gb
    When joining the company in March 2006, my primary role was to support the sales team and our customers in a Technical Pre-Sales capacity, whilst also creating and developing our solution portfolio. During this time we successfully built a solid foundation of strategic vendors and partners to deliver best of breed solutions to our customer base. Initially developing our data protection portfolio by way of the proposal and implementation of data protection solutions from industry leading vendors such as Quantum, Nexsan, Overland, Spectra Logic, Veritas, Arcserve & Commvault, whilst also building our storage infrastructure portfolio, which included solutions from vendors such as NetApp, EqualLogic, HPE, HDS, Nimble Storage, Microsoft & VMware. With one aim of being the best value-added reseller in the UK of chosen technologies - this was demonstrated multiple times by being awarded the highest partner status by many of our chosen strategic vendors. Furthermore, during this time I grew our portfolio to deliver Professional Services for the Data Protection, Data Infrastructure, Networks and Security solutions that are in our portfolio today. Day to day this role included many responsibilities such as Tender, Proposal & Quote Creation, Supplier Management & Purchasing and Service Contract Management of all solutions and products supplied by the business. The management of our internal IT systems including the deployment of new software platforms (QuoteWerks, SAP Business One) was also my responsibility.
  • Sbk Computers Ltd
    Systems Director (Company)
    Sbk Computers Ltd Mar 2005 - Mar 2006
    Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Gb
    This was a promotion to the level of a Company Director within the business. While in this role I also successfully managed, designed, delivered and trained our customers with our chosen CRM solution (ProspectSoft), a bespoke platform based on SyBase.
  • Sbk Computers Ltd
    Systems Manager
    Sbk Computers Ltd Dec 2001 - Mar 2005
    Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Gb
    This promotion included the same day to day tasks as Systems Engineer while additional responsibilities were required to be performed. These included designing and proposing new system deployments (pre-sales), including the purchasing of hardware for customer projects. The management of the engineering team was also required for this role, ensuring all daily support tickets and tasks were completed to agreed SLA's.
  • Sbk Computers Ltd
    Systems Engineer
    Sbk Computers Ltd Mar 2000 - Dec 2001
    Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Gb
    While in this position by daily tasks included deploying, repairing and upgrade IT infrastructure systems. Supporting customers via telephone and onsite, covering the whole of the UK but with a concentration on Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. The IT infrastructure projects delivered included network configurations (LAN, WAN, RAS and VPN) included infrastructure cabling installation (CAT5 & BNC). Operating Systems supported and configured included Windows 95-XP and Windows Server NT4-2003, including Novell.
  • Rhodium Plc
    Retail Sales & System Builds
    Rhodium Plc Jan 1999 - Mar 2000
    Melbourne, Vic, Au

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Alex Raben Education Details

  • Chesterfield Technical College
    Chesterfield Technical College
    Ict
  • Bolsover School
    Bolsover School
  • Palterton Primary School
    Palterton Primary School

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