Mark Round Email & Phone Number

As a technologist business leader, I have a proven track record of delivering profitable business growth while taking on challenging business and technology projects. I am deeply passionate about the potential for transforming industries and improving lives through the innovative application of technology.Throughout my career, I have held various management roles where I've led both local and international teams comprised of client, partner, and employer staff. Together, we have successfully executed business change projects for major clients of IBM. My responsibilities have included contributing to business development efforts, shaping technology strategy decisions to support evolving business models, and leading the UK IBM Academy Affiliate.I have a strong history of delivering projects on time and within budget, consistently achieving targets. Some notable accomplishments include:- Spearheading the replacement of functionality, connectivity, and authorization solutions for 4000 live ATMs as a first-of-a-kind (FOAK) deployment for a multinational retail bank.- Leading a technical team during the 2007/8 financial crisis to deliver a separation and subsequent merger solution, facilitating the takeover of a bankrupt bank's retail banking operations.- Guiding multi-company teams in the creation of proposals by partnering with third parties like BT, Lenovo, Red Hat, and others to develop commercially and technically compelling solutions to business challenges.- Managing and leading multi-country teams to support thousands of business partners, consistently meeting service level SLAs while adapting product and service offerings.- Developing innovative approaches and tooling to extend partner services into new areas, including low-cost, multi-currency, and multi-language deployment capabilities.- Designing, implementing, and managing systems for Continuous Operation and High Availability, as well as overseeing data center migrations for live services.- Being an inspirational manager and leader, adept at motivating teams and fostering professional development.- Serving as a polished public speaker and educator, delivering presentations at conferences such as London Tech Week and Business South, as well as guest lectures at Imperial College London.- Leading the creation of syllabi and educational materials, and delivering education to IBM consultants on topics such as innovation processes, cloud transformation, and strategy for inclusion in product and service profiles.

Listed skills include Pre Sales, Solution Architecture, Cloud Computing, Storage, and 36 others.

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  Apr 2009 - Present

  I teach all RYA approved yacht cruising courses, I also skipper yachts for regatta's and deliveries