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London, England, United Kingdom

Providing network & security strategy and sourcing consultancy to UK and multinationals organisations.

London, England Metropolitan Area

Designing high value, networking solutions for UK enterprises.

London, United Kingdom

A solution specialist, meeting the needs of UK business with managed IP telephony, connectivity and cloud computing services. Intercity is an independent and financially secure, IT service provider where great customer service is everything.

London, United Kingdom

Interim product manager for connectivity services including Dedicated Internet Access (Copper and Fibre Ethernet), MPLS IPVPN, P2P, VPLS, WLR and DSL Broadband.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Adapt is an award winning, end-to-end, IT managed services provider. Brilliantly delivering managed IT services that meet business outcomes.Sell into existing accounts across a portfolio of products and services including virtualised hosting (VMWare based), managed network and managed co-location. Currently developing 'software defined datacentre'.

Launched MPLS IPVPN within Vodafone Business Services for on-sell to customers and prospects.

West Yorkshire

Creating IT and Telecoms propositions for UK, SME businesses

West Yorkshire

Selling voice and internet services to the UK, business, mid-market.

Cutting through the techno babble of telecoms and delivering propositions that satisfy the base requirements of SME customers.

Launched Ethernet VPN, VoIP service and Dedicated Internet Access with new Ubigate CPE. Commercially managed Co-Location product.

I managed the product life cycle for high-end, enterprise hosting packages and Business ADSL packages for resellers and wholesalers. Key areas of activity included contract and price negotiation with suppliers and buyers, financial modelling and new product development. My objectives were to increase revenues and/or increase margins across all product areas.

Manchester

Managed the product life-cycle of hosting platforms aimed at SME businesses in the UK. Responsible for improving the sales and margins of these products through marketing initiatives, aligned market pricing and product development. Re-organised co-location racks to trim costs and enhance customer service.

London, United Kingdom

Managed P&L for co-location and managed hosting customers based on annual revenues of £2 million. Successfully negotiated a deal for a new partner to take over management of existing hosted servers. Introduced Cisco PIX firewall to enhance hosting propositions.

London, United Kingdom

Worked within sales engineering, i.e. pre-sales, specialising in hosting and security consultancy. Responsible for supporting the sale of THUS products and services from co-location to enterprise hosting services. Commercially responsible for costing new services to customers.

Proposed hosting and network solutions for UK companies. Led a team of pre-sales consultants.

Re-launched shared hosting to small business market, and drove development and launch of new product features.

Analysed and reported on chemical and semiconductor markets for subscriber base of international companies.