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

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.