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Albany, Auckland

Customer focused relationship building engagements resulting in detailed planning and IT solution design for customers. Advising businesses on low risk infrastructure. Enjoys developing business solutions and presenting these. Customers see an independent and trusted technology expert leading them with new ideas and innovation. A confident communicator who works with and listens to customers to help solve their business problems. Level headed and practical with developing low risk business solutions that provide great benefits. With many industry qualifications including; BSc in Computing, VMware Certified Professional and Microsoft Certified IT Professional. Virtualization and Cloud solutions are key technology’s delivered. Independent solutions including EMC and IBM technologies. Lexel Systems is NZ’s largest privately owned ICT infrastructure solutions company with 24 years of history, over 150 staff, and over $45 million in revenue. Lexel is big enough to provide the depth and certainty our customers require in IT solution consulting, design, implementation, support services, outsourcing, project management, business analysis, and procurement.

Auckland

Personal Summary• An Enterprise Solutions Architect who enjoys developing business solutions and presenting these. Customers see an independent and trusted technology expert leading them with new ideas and innovation. A confident communicator who works with and listens to customers to help solve their business problems. Level headed and practical with developing low risk business solutions that provide great benefits. With many industry qualifications including; BSc in Computing, VMware Certified Professional and Microsoft Certified IT Professional. Virtualization and Cloud solutions are key technology’s delivered.• Regularly speaks at events such as the Microsoft’s System Centre 2012 Launch (keynote speaker), HP/Microsoft Business Intelligence Event 2011 and HPLive – CloudSystem 2011.• 10 years of work experience in IT infrastructure pre-sales including; architecture, design, implementation and troubleshooting for enterprise environments across Asia Pacific and New Zealand. • Ensuring client satisfaction by teaming with delivery executives, account and capability teams to engineer solutions that meet specific contract requirements, standards and customer expectations. Qualification Summary• Knowledge of marketing including; product positioning, pricing and promotion• Business planning, control, forecasting, execution and monitoring.• Self motivated, confident with the ability to manage risk.• Project management and solution design.• Good knowledge of competitors.• Management and team building skills.• Strong written and oral communication ability.• Excellent computer skills.• Strong presentation abilities.• Trainer.• Newsletter editor & publisher.• Over 25 years experience within the computing industry.

Auckland

• Team leader• Pre-sales presentations e.g. Product Introductions, InterOp 97.• Conducted Reseller Engineer Technical Training including • 1. High Availability and Clustering• 2. Configuring & Optimising SQL• 3. Novell Advanced Performance Integration• 4. Windows NT Advanced Performance Integration• 5. LAN Technologies, Fast Ethernet and Gigabyte Ethernet .• Resolving customer issues • Unix a specialisation

• Managed 6 Engineers.• Built up the Service Contract Business by 300%.