You get up everyday, check your email, check your calendar, get ready, get to work, and repeat the same everyday. You look at your future, think about your career, change jobs, and repeat. Sleep, work, repeat.I don't see anything wrong with this and I have done it all my life and will be doing it until I retire, consciously. But also consciously, I decided to quit my job and take a break. If during our life we expect to work 40 to 45 years, one year sabbatical to travel will not change your life or your future wealth but will definitely teach you a great deal about yourself.My wife and I met while traveling in Peru and since then we had only wanted to be able to explore the rest of the world at our own pace. And so we did.

Virtustream, a Dell Technologies business, is the enterprise-class cloud service and software provider trusted by enterprises worldwide to migrate and run their mission-critical applications in the cloud. For enterprises, service providers and government agencies, Virtustream’s xStream management platform and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) meets the security, compliance, performance, efficiency and consumption-based billing requirements of complex production applications in the cloud - whether private, public or hybrid.

As an Account SE focused on the Enterprise market, I provide technical expertise in support of pre-sales activities. I assist in the analysis, design, and development of fully integrated technology solutions with special emphasis on hardware capabilities, software requirements and systems integration. I lead with the Sales Team the development and implementation of specific account penetration strategies producing account specific solutions and sales plans. I leverage the knowledge of competitive solutions to effectively address and dispel customer objections to EMC solutions, and train the account team. It is a key part of my role to establish relationships with the account team, partners, the rest of the Dell EMC Federation (VMware, Pivotal, RSA, VCE) and customers in support of sales team objectives and engage and leverage corporate resources, abilities, budgets and personnel as appropriate. An Account SE needs to be very focused and results-driven. I need to execute on technical sales calls, configure and document EMC software, hardware and service solutions to meet customer and sales objectives; complete required presales documentation quickly and accurately; qualify sales opportunities in the terms of customer technical requirements, competition, decision making process and funding; and perform a support role in District Sales and Services Leadership Meetings.

As part of EMC's Leadership Program, a Sr Business Analyst is assigned to a different business unit every six months (details below). I act as program manager, participate of strategic and operational business decision, provide complex analytical and statistical support within a designated functional organization, and interface directly with a broad range of management and cross-functional positions. I develop and prepare reports for use in business planning and analysis in an assigned business area, offer strategic technical insight with respect to each functional area, make appropriate redesign recommendations, and share expertise on concerns integrating with other systems.- EMEA Presales Strategy and Operations (based in London)Analyzed GBS Presales Services usage in EMEA leading to an adoption plan for specific regions Developed headcount planning model for the EMEA Presales Specialist group to identify current gaps and presented the results leading to testing the model in the Americas and APJ- Pivotal Professional Services @ EMC (based in San Francisco)Solved reporting gaps providing management with revenue, booking, and utilization reports from Propel as well as SalesForce quarterly pipeline status reportsCreated a tool for Project Accountants to consolidate all active projects and forecast quarterly revenue- Professional Services Operations for Latin AmericaLed the initiative to implement Polaris as the project data repository for Professional Services in Latin America Developed a reporting tool for Project Managers in Latin America to publish project handover dates allowing management to track project status and improve the delivery- Solutions Service Product LeadAnalyzed Service Requests to demonstrate the value proposition of VSPEX versus the regular VNX product and main differences in serviceabilityLed a project team to develop a tool to improve the communication process between the Solutions Business Unit and Global Services

Documented ESG processes managing $100M of inventory annually and involving different groups within the company to understand the flow and detect areas of improvement. Predicted from current metrics future growth of a department in terms of resource consumption to assign $20M annual budget.

An IS is challenged to work both as a team player and individually. We are 20 in my group and we have built a strong understanding where each member acts as backup to any other member of the team. However, often it is necessary to face customers alone with EMC support in the background. In this position I have learnt to work with different departments for a common objective.Main Areas of development: Clariion and Symmetrix storage arrays, SAN, Replication Technologies (MV, SRDF, SANCopy, OpenReplicator, Recoverpoint)