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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Technical Sales support for all aspects of the IBM Z hardware business in the MEA region. I am focused primarily on Gulf Levant Pakistan and Egypt. The role includes technical qualification of opportunities, high level design of hardware solutions, including provision for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Project management of hardware installation and implementation, from pre-delivery, through to final hand over to the client. Using elements of project management methodology based on PRINCE2. Working with ISV's and their implementations on Linux on IBM Z, including database, financial services and digital asset management. Ensuring accurate solution sizing and performance characteristics are achieved in order to optimise the outcome for the client.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Technical Sales Specialist for the Luminex Product set. Luminex manufacture IBM compatible virtual tape solutions, as well as FICON disk arrays and high speed FICON attached TCP/IP network adaptors.

Brisbane, Australia

Providing support to IBM mainframe clients running z/VM, Linux on Z, Oracle Database, RACF. Migration and upgrade planning and execution, Storage management and implementation.

Brisbane, Australia

Providing Network, Storage and data Management solutions for customers, with world class products from INFINIDAT, Smartoptics, Komprise, and Quantum. I have delivered a full suite of IBM z/VM & Linux training, and worked with clients to plan their environments a leverage the latest features of the platform. Presented the current approaches for Linux on IBM Z (including z14 and LinuxONE), and helped steer the client to the best outcome. Working with Business Partners and customers to design and implement enterprise class storage and network solutions. Delivering solutions that are cost effective, high performance, secure and easy to use.

Brisbane, Australia

Working state-wide in Queensland, with a large number of service and solution offerings to meet the data management and protection demands of enterprises of all sizes. With the emphasis on flexibility, Cloud (Public, Private and Hybrid) plays an increasingly critical role in these solutions. Delivering solutions based on public cloud - IaaS offerings that deliver high performance storage, archive storage and and database protection with infinite flexibility and capacity. For customers demanding cloud like flexibility, delivered on premises. Continued Australia wide support of Oracle's Mainframe storage solutions (StorageTek Tape and virtual tape solutions) in multiple operating environments (z/OS, z/VM & Linux)Design and delivery of high performance prime disk solutions, designed to optimise performance in the Oracle environment, with AES (Application Engineered Storage) offering unique benefits to Oracle users in terms of performance, data compression and provisioning. Solutions designed to operate in the Oracle Database space, to meet and exceed the Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective of the enterprise, whilst using standard tools, and not requiring changes to the production environment. Data protection and backup solutions, ranging from database to complete enterprise, with both public cloud and on premise. With a whole range of offerings such as backup to disk, compression, de-duplication, backup to tape, backup to cloud, fully platform agnostic. Long term archive solutions - based either in the public cloud, on premise, or as a hybrid offering, and in conjunction with HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management - automated storage tiering) allowing data to be located on the most appropriate level of storage to match security, usage and access metrics. All solutions underpinned with Data security, with central control and encryption capability, with no compromise on performance or flexibility.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Design and support for the Oracle Systems (Hardware) line of business.With responsibility for Storage, Servers, Network and Engineered Systems, I cover the whole of Government, Education and Healthcare for Queensland. In This role I have had a number of large transactions, including government research storage solutions, Mainframe virtual tape (VSM) solutions, core systems replacement and upgrades for healthcare, and engineered systems for education and local government. Oracle's range of engineered systems, appliances and servers has changed significantly during this time, not to mention the changes to tape and disk storage. This has resulted in an increasing amount of choice for the customer and true end to end support for the Oracle Stack.

With increasing exposure to Enterprise architecture, I was responsible for solution design across multiple disciplines, and incorporating many layers of technology & Infrastructure. I was responsible for infrastructure design to support a major Oracle RAC implementation within the healthcare sector. I was also responsible for two projects involving data relocation inter state for Queensland Customers. these solutions requiring business continuity to be an integral part of the solution, and maintained through all data transfers, Whilst still supporting Storage implementations - I was responsible for the implementation and commissioning of a new SL8500 to support major research activity within Queensland Government. Involved in a number of HSM implementations throughout Queensland.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Providing pre sales and post sales support for the full range of Sun Microsystems products, including Servers, Storage and Software and applications. Pre-sales support of the Mainframe storage solutions provided by Sun Microsystems (Previously StorageTek products) Including to Federal government clients. In depth knowledge of SAM-FS (Now HSM) tiered file system, planning, sizing and implementing in customer environments.Worked on three green field implementations of SAM-FS, in Government, education and insurance.Professional Services implementation activities for mainframe tape storage solutions, including software installation and configuration, policy definition and capacity planning. Move to pre-sales support and implementation of server systems, both SPARC and Intel based, with a good working knowledge of Solaris O/SManagement of major banking client, consolidating data centres, and moving from physical tape processing to a virtual tape / HSM solution, resulting in improved performance, resilience and data protection.

Meriden - United Kingdon

Responsible for Pre-Sales and some Post-Sales activities around all of the StorageTek product range, including Tape, Disk and Software: With a particular focus on mainframe Virtual Tape (VSM), and Virtual Disk (Iceberg, SVA)/ z/OS Storage Management ACS routines, ISMF, HCD. Working with a number of high profile clients, delivering tape backup and archive solutions across multiple data centres and multiple technologies, Managing the transition away from 9310 Powderhorn libraries to the Streamline 8500 series of libraries. Having increasing focus on Information Lifecycle Management, and the full spectrum of Storage Tiering, HSM and Media management. StorageTek was purchased by Sun Microsystems during 2005

Coventry, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Responsible for storage products as they relate to the Disaster Recovery offerings portfolio. Defining the storage strategy for all of the service offerings, considering various methods of connectivity, various storage formats, and the unique operational requirements of the customer base. Managed a storage portfolio that included EMC, IBM, Hitachi and StorageTek, as well as small arrays from Compaq and HPManaged the tape drive portfolio, including StorageTek, IBM, and Quantum of various flavoursBuilt the business case for, and procured 3 StorageTek SVA disk subsystems to replace ageing Iceberg 9200 series systems. This resulted in cost savings and better environmental requirements.Installed the first IBM ESS (Shark) Storage Array to support, Solaris, AS400 and HP-UX workloads. At this time it was an early Fibre Channel implementation.

Coventry Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Managing a group of 4 Pre-Sales consultants covering all aspects of the disaster recovery services delivered by ComdiscoResponsible for pricing solutions, including hardware procurement, services and facilitiesDelivery of a number of pre-sales initiatives, around technology procurement and effective group funding of new solutions that a single customer could not finance individually.Preparation of tender responses, including pricing, full technical response and assistance to the sales team. Delivery of senior level sales presentations across all industry sectors, including cold and hot site recovery and managed continuity services

Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Responsible for the management and operation of Comdisco's network of Workarea Recovery Facilities: Management & Operation of AT&T / Lucent Definity Call Centre switches, including programming of Interactive Voice Response, call process vectors and Expert agent Selection (EAS)Management of desktop hardware, PC's and platform specific terminals (IBM 3270, 5250 etc) to deliver unique customer environments.Support of live disaster situations brought about by natural events, terrorism and denied access situations. In every case the customers continued operating, and their businesses survived, due to extensive planning and testing. Management of a small team of operations specialists who ran the facilities on a day by day basis.

Redditch, Worcestershire, United Kingdom

Providing operational support for Disaster Recovery customers across two disaster recovery facilities - one in Park Royal, North London & the other in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire. Predominantly a mainframe recovery solution, clients would perform traditional cold recovery - recovering system packs from tape backups. This delivered a solid reliable service, albeit based on data that could vary from a few hours old to a few days old. Providing hands on technical support with MVS, VM, VSE and TPF operating systems, Using a good knowledge of ASSEMBLER, COBOL and CICS to diagnose and fix customer issues.Diagnosing and repairing network issues, from NCP/VTAM to Dial-Up and ISDN lines. Increasing use of TCP/IP networks, including the IBM 3172 and 3746 interconnect controllers. Providing a "Managed Service" where customers could provide just the documentation and backups from their system, and our staff would perform the recovery through to completion. A detailed report was then presented to the customer highlighting any areas where the documentation / process was lacking. . Ensuring that the customer experience was optimised during their use of the facilities. Making sure supplies and services were available at all times and that the sites were maintained in an appropriate manner.

Redditch, Worcestershire, United Kingdom

An Operations / Operations analyst role that started with an on-shift position, in a traditional mainframe operations environment. With in depth exposure to Mainframe and Mini Systems hardware, including IBM, Amdahl, & DEC, and operational responsibility. Operation of Storage subsystems from Amdahl, IBM & StorageTek, along with tape and Solid State (StorageTek 4305) Liaison with support engineers to manage break fix situation on a 7 * 24 hour basis. Later - support for the shift operations group, with documentation, procedures and change control as part of a Shift Support Group (SSG)