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Reading, United Kingdom

Product Manager for: The Open Groups knowledge based professional certs portfolio, including: - TOGAF- Archimate- IT4IT- OpenFAIRAnd the experienced based professional certification portfolio:- Open CA- Open CITS

Swindon, United Kingdom

Product Manager for the Security & Strategy professional accreditation portfolio, encompassing:• CESG Certified Professional scheme• Certificate in Information Security Management Principles• Business Continuity Management Practitioner • Practitioner Certificate in Information Risk Management• Intermediate & Practitioner Certificates in Enterprise & Solution Architecture• Foundation & Practitioner Certificates in Data Protection• Practitioner Certificate in FoIA• Foundation Certificate in Datacentre Infrastructure• Practitioner Certificate in EU Code of Conduct in Datacentres• Practitioner in Energy & Cost Management• Foundation Certificate in Green IT• Certified Energy Efficient Datacentre Award (CEEDA)

Chippenham

Joined RFL Communications on a 6 month contract to run all marcoms activities. This was extended by 6 months. RFL acquired ITS 4 Business & the new company was re-branded "Vysiion". Continued running all lead gen, social media & events for Vysiion until the end of the contract.

Camberley, United Kingdom

Joined Telindus as proposition manager for Telindus’ Datacentre & Cloud propositions (including orchestration & automation), covering, BeCloud suite, Cisco UCS & Nexus, EMC, VMware, VSPEX.Primary Roles: • Define & drive the Telindus Datacentre & Cloud offerings into sales & customers.• Manage lead & demand generation activities for DC propositions.• Manage relationships with Key datacentre vendors; Cisco, EMC, VMware.

Cirencester, United Kingdom

Joined Comstor as product manager for the European Region for Comstors’ Datacentre offerings, covering, Cisco UCS, Netapp Storage, VMware, Flexpod and ExpressPod.Primary Roles: • Define and create sales and quote processes, and marketing collateral for FlexPod and ExpressPod launches.• Introduced Cisco BTO (build to order) programme to reduce delivery times from 4 weeks to 7 days. • Manage and drive Datacenter sales targets for region.• Be primary escalation point to and from Comstor to Cisco, NetApp and VMware.

Reading, United Kingdom

Joined Computacenter’s’ trade only division (CCD) managing & marketing HP’s Enterprise Product portfolio for both enterprise servers & the value storage products for CCD to HP channel partners.After a reorganisation, took over the product management responsibilities for Computacenter UK for all tier 1 storage vendors (Netapp, EMC, IBM, HDS, HP).Primary Roles: - Manage & forecast pipeline opportunities, to vendors & sourcing exec’s to ensure right stock commitments were met. Recommended to Sourcing Execs which key products to stock & target.- Primary contact with key vendors’ product divisions, focusing on pipeline, planning & product.- Product evangelist for product lines to both sales & customers.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Managed the product portfolio of a number of printing consumable & accessory product lines

Pangbourne

Trained as a coach with the CTI, founded Concordance Ltd & grew a part time coaching practice.

Bracknell, United Kingdon

Primary Roles:- Understand & communicate the value proposition with regard to Unix, Linux & Microsoft Windows on Itanium to sales teams (internal & partner), UK press, software, systems integrators & reseller channel partners.- Define, develop & execute business plan in conjunction with key partners, channel & vested interested parties.- Manage processes & communications to & between the "Itanium cross business virtual team" & European server marketing team ensuring timely delivery on milestone targets within given budgetary goals.- Launch Integrity systems line.- Product Manager for: HP9000 family, HP-UX 11i, Linux, HP blade servers & UDC solution- Primary contact between the European product management team and the UK sales force, channel partners & other pertinent audiences.- Define & manage the lead generation, marcoms & communication activity (incl. press spokesperson) for above product ranges ensuring all material could be leveraged by channel & business partners alike.

Reading, United Kingdom

Primary Roles:- Monitor & adjust where necessary the overall pricing & margin for the product range for the UK & Ireland.- Creation & execution of marketing offers & packaged bundles for promotion in conjunction with Alpha channel resellers.

Reading, United Kingdom

Primary Roles:- Technical support specialisation in Intel & Alpha based systems, software enhancement products to Windows NT (security), Microsoft Exchange (vault & archiving software).- Be responsible for the technical relationships with a number of strategic ISV partners, including Oracle, Citrix, Peoplesoft, J.D. Edwards, Baan, Sage & key channel partners.- Ad-hoc, product update presentations & NDA's to ISV partners, channel partners & end-user customers.- Identify & qualify new sales opportunities within accounts aligned to & work with account managers to close business.- Technical advisor to the sales graduates training programme for the UK.- Created & delivered a technical accreditation programme for UK reseller channel. The programme was later adopted by EMEA & later, worldwide. Was also advisor to EMEA & worldwide during their roll-outs.

Winnersh, United Kingdom

Primary Roles:- Repair wide range of products varying from large disk arrays to Micro systems.- Be first line of technical support to team.- ISO 9000 Lead Assessor.- Manage trainees, ensuring they received suitable training.

Hnc, Electronic Engineering

3X Gce A Levels. 9X Gce O Levels