I'm excited to announce that I have just joined the team at Pacific Teck as Product Manager for South East Asia.Initial focus will be on hot cloud storage and exabyte-scale NAS, and I'm looking forward to catching up with old friends and partners in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand as I get up to speed!

Headed up market and channels development for Asia (Southeast Asia -- Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines as well as Taiwan.) at StorageCraft. Channel recruitment, on-boarding and both sales and technical training. Tech training sessions in every country at least once a month, both for technical sales and support (pre and post sales). Seminars, trade shows, and at least 15 customer visits a week.Closed over 20,000 customers across the region!Technology: Backup every 15 minutes with no impact on servers, Recover a server within 3 to 5 minutes, Recovery to any different hardware (including drivers), or virtual platform. Offsite replication over minimal bandwidth (necessary in parts of this region!), pre-build data centres in offsite location(s); in the event of a disaster, the entire DR site is ready to boot up.

Managing partner in a property development and investments company in Thailand.

Managed OEM partners for Asia/Pacific region, including go to market programmes, regional promotions, sales and technical training and product awareness, and OEM partner events, to the end of increasing software sales through and with alliance partners.Worked on a team of three individuals worldwide to secure an OEM relationship with a tier 1 systems OEM.Received product enhancement requests from APAC region, and built business cases to assist Product Management to prioritise additions to the development schedule.Managed channel sales for Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as regional coverage for named accounts.

Recruited and developed channels in greater China, Korea, ANZ, and south Asia, to sell and integrate ADIC's line of archival software and mid-range to enterprise class tape libraries.Implemented programmes to help channels to surpass revenue targets and increase their product expertise while selling a wider range of ADIC solutions, including internal training and tech days, marketing events, trade shows, vendor partner programmes, seminars and marketing campaigns.Provided technical training and first line support for all channels in my region.

Onsite engineer for OEM's for implementation of the NDMP protocol in network attached storage devices.Technical liaison with OEM partners for Europe and USA (working out of London and Boston).Later was field systems engineer for Asia (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and India).

Worked on a team of four who designed and implemented a global backup strategy for a network of 300+ Unix servers in 22 countries.Designed and implemented a help desk system using Action Remedy.Software testing for applications such as performance management and other systems management tools.Support and troubleshooting for Unix servers at State Street's head office.General systems administration for SunOS, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX servers.

Designed and implemented an Internet strategy, both for internal use and for sale of products and services via the Multimicro network of franchises.Managed a team of three engineers -- together we built the Internet infrastructure, performed systems administration and light development, as well as technical support.Worked with Vendor Relations to identify and test new solutions related to Internet and networking and open systems computing. DEC Unix, Sun Solaris, Linux

Assisted the head of the Genetics department to manage IBM AIX and Linux systems for use by students and researchers. This included implementation and maintenance of Sendmail, molecular modelling and bioscience utilities, and basic sysadmin and security tasks.

Worked as technical sales, selling computers and peripherals to students, faculty and staff.Provided technical support for full product range of PC and Mac computers, operating systems, applications and utilities software and peripherals.Provided installation and configuration of computers and peripherals for university departments and faculty, including integration with heterogeneous environments and instrumentation (data acquisition, instrument control etc.).