Fused glass artist, specialising in bespoke kitchen and bathroom splash backs, wall or garden art.

Running the Techline organisation in Europe, Middle East and Africa, a technical support organisation with 150 specialist and its' own budget.Bridging between different organisations globally in IBM.Tina met or succeeded all financial and service targets.in the last 3 years, responsible for leading the transformation of the Techline organisation to meet emerging business challenges. Techline is a back office presales technical support organisation supporting IBM and Business Partner client facing sales and technical sales professionals.Leading the Techline Transition in Europe. This included successfully transitioning current workload to a shared services centre in a low cost country while attempting to find new roles for resources in place throughout Europe. Tina succeeded in finding new roles or new funding for 90% of the resource without any separation funding or HR assistance.

Reporting to the UK Technical Director for STG. Responsible for a team of Storage Technical FTSS and Storage Architects, with around 26 people reporting to me. Areas of responsibility within the role:* Providing Storage presales and architectural skills for large complex cross brand customer bids as well as being trusted advisors for selected customers* People management, including skills development* Bridging between different organisations within IBM

Reporting to the UK Technical Director for STG. Responsible for a team of territory or customer aligned Systems Architects, with between 12 people reporting to me. Areas of responsibility within the role:* Providing architectural skills for large complex cross brand customer bids as well as being trusted advisors for selected customers* People management, including skills development* Bridging between different organisations within IBM

Reporting to the UK Technical Director for STG. Responsible for driving the UNIX implementation services business target for the UK, with between 20 and 27 people reporting to me. Areas of responsibility within the role:* Providing leading edge UNIX skills for the wider IBM's customer needs* People management, including skills development* Business development for services offerings* Bid support for complex customer engagementsAchievements* Made target 9 out of 10 Quarters (missed the first one)* Had the highest Basic Blue management feedback score the year I attended

Reporting to the VP of pSeries, EMEA. Responsible for driving the achievement of the UNIX Business target for EMEA, through enabling the Sales force (direct and indirect). For the last 4 years the annual target exceeded $1B, and IBM grew market share in a generally stagnant marketplace. Areas of responsibility within the role:* Involvement in driving complex customer proposals to close* Bid management* Market management - analysis of product competitiveness, creating competitive offerings, driving market/customer requirements with development* Product introductions, including routes-to-market analysis, product planning* Sales programs and promotions* Giving executive presentations (customer, press, media

Reporting to pSeries Business Manager, EMEA. Responsible for the pSeries product portfolio. Areas of responsibility within the role:* Product structures - products possible to configure and available to order* 2nd level support for field technical sales support* Collecting and qualifying technical product requirement* Development of support material around product introductions* Giving executive product presentations

Reporting to Regional Technical Support Manager. Supporting the pSeries Business Partners Channel technically, and being part of the Channel development team.Areas of responsibility within the role:* 1st level support for Business Partner's field technical sales support* Collecting and qualifying technical product requirement* Developing skill development plans for Business Partners* Business Partner product education

Responsible for testing, architecting, and then delivering the solution proposed by IBM for STAKO. This is the Swedish Governmental frame agreement. This also included project managing the proof-of-concept. IBM succeeded to get on the list for the first time ever in 1991, and then again in 1992 and 1993.

UNIX System and Networking:Reporting to Regional Technical Support Manager. Technical support, specialising in system and network management.Areas of responsibilities within the role:• System solution design• Internal and external education and presentations• Country 1st level technical support

Reporting to Country Technical Support Manager. Technical support for IBM's UNIX solutions - 6150 and the follow-on RS/6000/Areas of responsibility within the role:* System solution design* Internal and external education and presentations* Country 1st level technical support

Developing and supporting internal systems developed in Pascal and/or Fortran. Working parttime while at university.