My love of and passion for technology is evident in my career path where I started out as an engineer with Mthombo IT Services. I was given basic tasks such as replacing hard drives, motherboards and even printer cartridges. My nature is to solve problems and as such, I took on bigger challenges using my own initiative and grew from strength to strength.My experience across technology companies such as Dimension Data, Hewlett Packard (HP) and now Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has provided me with the opportunity to grow my technical skill set in a number of areas to become strategic. My career has enabled me to gain skills and expertise in virtualisation, storage and networking across multiple vendor brands and I have a special interest in anything that can simplify life, such as IoT.My career highlights include the transition from break fix repairs to server and storage specialist and from there on virtualization specialist, working with multiple hardware vendors including HPE’s portfolio, Dell Servers, EMC Storage and Cisco UCS infrastructure. These expertise enabled me to becoming the youngest certified Master Accredited Solutions Expert in Cloud Architecture at HPE. I enjoy challenges and the bigger the challenge, the better. The opportunity to learn is what drives me and being able to think of innovative solutions to solve challenges. Over the years I have come to realise that my aptitude for problem solving and trouble-shooting has become my best asset.Technology is central to my life – both from a business and personal perspective. Technology can simplify our lives and connectivity is core to this. I embrace the idea of creating use cases for technology and my home is a key example of this where I am constantly automating and connecting anything I can.