Paul Christensen Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, Nc, Us

- Responsible for the strategy and growth of the Red Hat Ecosystem Development organization, created the Ecosystem Growth and Partner Development teams to engage with partners in new ways to support their workloads and accelerate their alignment with the Red Hat Platform. This includes driving vertical partner strategies and the relationship with IBM product teams. These new partner alliance models revolve around technical enablement and co-sell strategies are a growth engine for our business and a key part of delivering the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud strategy to customers.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

- Established Red Hat’s container certification program from the ground up. Responsible for all aspects of the partner engineering relationship that included migration of legacy applications to cloud native container images and supporting efforts in deploying micro services across Kubernetes clusters. Starting at zero, these efforts lead to over 250 partners certifying and deploying 1000s of unique applications on OpenShift.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

- In support of Red Hat’s strategy to drive multi-product growth and desire to branch into new verticals, established and led the Emerging Technology Engineering Partner Management team for telco industry partners. Charged with driving successful engagement and alignment on the OpenStack platform, these efforts supported upstream awareness and enablement as well as direct engagement with Red Hat Product engineering teams.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

- Delivered application modernization strategies to customers looking to move their workloads off legacy operating systems (primarily UNIX) to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Led field efforts for pilot projects around OpenShift and OpenStack emerging technologies.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

- Responsible for lab trials of convergence platform addressing next generation services bundling including communication, media and web across network and device types. Defined and directed work according to blueprint architecture with a unique mix of IT based open standards (Linux) and Telco / Cable based standards such as 3GPP (IMS). After that was complete, moved on to LTE 4.0 rollout for major CSP in two deployment regions.

London, Gb

- A small security SaaS startup- Developed and delivered a virtualization modernization and integration deployment from Zenserver to vSphere for test and deployment lab over a 6 month time frame

Suwanee, Georgia, Us

- A digital video hardware and software company, Engineering lead for Switch Digital Video, Ad Insertion and Video on Demand technologies for Tier 1 CSPs sound the globe. Technical Architect for hardware to VM server migrations.

Fremont, Ca, Us

- 28th employee of this Linux start up and worked here through the dotcom crash. This was a great experience where I learned to do whatever it takes to deliver customer satisfaction and to go the extra mile to help them achieve their technical objectives. It is the foundation for my career that serves me to this day.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Information Science

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