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United Kingdom

In order to maintain knowledge of IT trends and customer needs as well as recognising the impact of Covid-19 on my cycle coaching business model, I diversified my organisation in March 2021 to include an IT consultancy service. In February 2023 that service has been formalised in to a separate business entity known as Ventoux IT Consulting. The name "Ventoux" is significant to me as it is one of the most memorable mountains I have ever ridden my bike up. As with business, being successful on the Ventoux is very challenging yet deeply rewarding. It just had to be the name of a new company!

Northampton, United Kingdom

Following a voluntary redundancy, I took the opportunity to start my own cycle coaching company - Sportive Cycle Coaching - as I have always been an avid cyclist and felt that I had identified a distinct target market of mass participation cycling events known as Sportives.I am very proud of what I have achieved in this time period, with no regrets about giving it a go to see if I could establish a viable company.

Business Transformation oriented, pre-sales consultant specialising in Transformation Workshops to help customers address their Data & Information management challenges and succeed with their Digital Transformation objectives.Successes:The design, delivery, education and enablement of staff on an innovative data management assessment workshop that subsequently delivered $1M+ of new revenue.The design, delivery, education and enablement of staff on a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) readiness assessment workshop.

During this time, I owned all aspects of the pre-sales relationship for two multi-national organisations, one in Financial Services and one in Telco.In doing so, I was the first pre-sales employee to have a Global Technical Account Manager roleI attended Infinity Club 2012 (Maui) with a 110% quota over-achievementI attended Infinity Club 2014 (Aruba) with a 300% quota over-achievement and became the EMEA Systems Engineer of the Year

During this time, I focused on Enterprise Business Development within Commvault's channel community, providing pre-sales advice and guidance to OEM partnersTier1 partnersDistribution / Tier2 partners

In June 2006, I joined Hitachi Data Systems as a Technical Account Manager as I personally wanted to become more accountable and responsible for a vendor's interaction with customers.However, I had also became attracted to HDS because their desire to expand and grow meant they were looking to reduce their traditional reliance on high end Enterprise customers. I was very interested in working on the challenge of helping a vendor to re-invent itself and move away from its comfort zone.

In 2005, I transferred to the IBM Storage Technology Group (STG) to learn new skills in hardware, thus broadening out my overall IT competency. The benefit to IBM was that I provided the ability to “talk backup and recovery” in the middle of a hardware deal which gave a great message of dealing with a “joined up” IBM to customers. My focus in STG was supporting Business Partner and channel opportunities..

I joined IBM as a Pre-Sales Systems Engineer in the Tivoli brand of the IBM Software Group, working specifically in the Open Systems team. This was a major shift from my prior roles, where most of my responsibilities had been directly towards mainframe customers. In November 2003, I qualified as a Senior IT Specialist in IBM, a position that is recognised by the British Computer Society. Throughout 2004, I worked as a Pre-Sales consultant in a team dedicated to IBM Business Partners.

I joined ASG as a Pre-Sales and Technical Support consultant for the Operations Management products that ASG had acquired from Computer Associates in December 1999. My remit was to cover the whole of EMEA, as no other experienced staff had been taken on by ASG.

I joined Platium technology as a post sales, mainframe, technical support analyst, following my experience with ZEKE at Avon Cosmetics and then transferred to pre-sales in January 1999

Mainframe (VM/VSE) Operations Analyst at Avon Cosmetics

Mainframe (VM/VSE) Computer Operator