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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Build on strategic global and regional technology partnerships to expand market reach and accelerate growth through collaborative go-to-market initiatives.• Foster mutually beneficial relationships with channel and technology partners to enhance market relevance, awareness, and business opportunities.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Work with channel partners and alliances to enable clients to create more value from their existing modern identity security controls - by easily extending them into legacy and on-premises systems and environments - preventing, detecting, and responding to identity-based threats in real-time.

London, United Kingdom , Gb

• Work with clients to develop cybersecurity strategies and architectures, and to develop implementation, management and operational capabilities. • Help clients to deliver digital business transformations that are secure by design and resilient to cyber threats, while supporting business innovation and managing cyber risk.• Productisation, enablement, facilitate development and enhancements for NTT's regional Managed Security Services portfolio and associated cybersecurity Go-To-Market. • Maintain key vendor and distributor relations and keep abreast of new developments and opportunities around cybersecurity, with consideration for the further evolution of the regional MSS products and portfolio.

London, United Kingdom , Gb

• Provide thought leadership and advice to clients about relevant cyber threats that may be a risk to their environment and may adversely affect the information technology assets and resources used by the client’s organisation to conduct their business.• Influencing and guiding relevant stakeholders to help identify and close opportunities; validate sales forecasting and pipeline; assist with opportunity qualification, commercial sourcing, pricing, deal registrations - to achieve NTT’s goals aligned with key performance indicators/metrics.

London, United Kingdom , Gb

• In October 2019, Dimension Data rebranded to NTT Ltd.

Bryanston, Johannesburg, Za

• Analyse and identify gaps in clients’ IT environments, with regards to their desire to reduce cyber risk and meet legislative, regulatory and/or corporate compliance requirements.• Provide coaching, mentoring and leadership to colleagues both in business and technical skills, including product knowledge - to improve the quality of Dimension Data’s work, efficiency, and clients’ experience.• Keep abreast of Dimension Data’s security product and services portfolio; maintain vendor and distributor relations; proactive identification of new developments and opportunities around information security.

Bryanston, Johannesburg, Za

• Requirements gathering, scoping and producing cyber security solution architectures, statements of work, proposals and tender bid responses to support account teams and address customers’ cyber security requirements across public and private sectors.• Manage client Proof of Concept (PoC) initiatives by acting as a bridge between clients, professional services, vendors, and account teams with the intention of delivering successful PoC outcomes that lead to a sale of cyber security solutions and services.• Using experience and knowledge to guide the project delivery for larger and more complex projects to ensure successful outcomes and a superb experience for both the client and Dimension Data.

Troy, Michigan, Us

• Technical responsibility for producing security solution architectures, designs, proposals and tender bid responses to support account teams and address customers’ information security requirements across public and private sectors.• Conduct proof of concepts and pilots when new technologies are involved.• Deliver detailed designs, training, implementation and migration plans.• Provide technical advice during staging, implementation and migration.• Technically lead and control security goals as the security design authority; interface between customers, sales, pre-sales, external partners, engineering and project management.

Gb

• Pre-sales consultancy and 3rd line support of Microsoft and Novell operating systems and products, on Compaq/HP Servers, using HP & Cisco networking infrastructures. Security products from vendors like Nokia/Checkpoint, Clearswift, RSA, Websense, Trend, Symantec/Veritas, and McAfee, were regularly included in the environment.• Engage with SME and public sector healthcare customers to understand their objectives, and then work with account teams to produce proposals.• Technical proposal writing, presenting, planning, designing, project management and implementations of wide variety of projects.• Accurately define project scope, technical design specifications, and remain hands-on throughout the project lifecycle – from start, through to completion.

Following a brief contract before Y2K, I spent more time travelling the UK and Europe, then finally decided to emigrate to England - where I took up a permanent role again.

Luton, England, Gb

• Contracted to provide input and recommendations on ensuring the corporate environment is Year 2000 compatible and to develop the processes to migrate their Cisco based WAN environment from one provider to another, while ensuring security and service availability.

One of my main goals after leaving South Africa was to spend time travelling the UK and Europe. To experience different cultures, sights, sounds and walks of life.I took the opportunity to do this before looking for a short contract that would allow me to continue my travelling again in the new year.

Midrand, Gauteng, Za

• Post-sales implementation & 2nd/3rd line support of Microsoft, Novell, SCO operating systems and products, on Compaq/HP servers, while using HP, Cabletron and Cisco networking infrastructures for the SME market and local/regional government.