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20+ years of experience in the sales, design and integration of enterprise datacentre infrastructure, software and solutions. Currently EMEA AI BDM at Lenovo, selling AI ISV solutions into enterprise customers. 15+ years of Alliances experience working hand in glove with IBM third party hardware and software suppliers directly as a Business Partner to better explain and position their products to my employers customers as a part of a solution, then as a Vendor (Lenovo) to bring their product/solution into Lenovo portfolio and position them accordingly to customers. Responsible for bringing onboard HCI solutions from 3x vendors into Lenovo ISG and was their technical gateway into Lenovo. Sales of circa $1M within a few months for these vendors into Retail and Education sectors. Customer focused in all that I do and am a quick learner, able to rapidly absorb new product/solution information/training and then position and apply and share that knowledge with my customers. Confident with Networking having installed and configured countless IBM Bladecenters and IBM/Lenovo Flex chassis. Been Cisco UCS and Datacenter Fabric certified from 2011-2013 and 2016-2018. Experienced in the processes of Lenovo ISG as an employee and also from 10 years working engaged with IBM/Lenovo ISG as a Business Partner Technical Architect. Have also purchased and managed Dell and HPE infrastructure when working in Industry.Continually embracing and assessing new challenges and new technologies to best advise my customers how they can save their time and money.Specialities: Pre Sales and Alliances, Consulting, Infrastructure Architecture, Server virtualisation, Storage Virtualisation, Network Automation, Servers, Storage, Software Defined Infrastructure, Software Defined Storage, Networking, risk mitigation, infrastructure migration, Blade Servers, Edge computing, Systems Management.Hobbies:Restoring and mild building projects on my mid-century house, restoring and maintaining my 1990's mountain bike collection, designing, building and running bespoke Electronic Fuel Injection and ignition systems for some 70's sports cars, smart home technology including home automation systems, security cameras and IoT sensors to manage my heating, lighting and security systems from one pane of glass.