Leading a team of specialist Solutions Architects across EMEA covering 14 distinct AWS services. Responsible for setting organisational vision and goals for the team and developing mechanisms to ensure employees achieve them. Defines hiring, development, promotion and organizational structure of the team as necessary to secure revenue and customer growth targets as planned. Enables others in the organisation to act as force multipliers in cases where no specialist is resident.

Working with the largest AWS customers to maximise the return on their public cloud investment.

Pre-Sales Engineer for Ireland, Scotland and London covering the Veeam Information Management, data protection, and availability product portfolio. Works directly with customers to design availability solutions for their most critical business applications on premises and in the public cloud. (Azure, AWS, SaaS).

Works with pre-sales engineers, sales consultants and sales account teams during technical sales engagements to deliver great outcomes for customers while driving revenue for the business. Shapes the data protection software and storage business unit strategy and delivers it to product development engineers and customers in clear terms. Evaluates start-up companies for investment or acquisition using technical analysis and business research methods. Works with customers, partners and product development engineers in EMEA and the US to create new product offerings. Coordinates globally distributed product development teams to synchronize cross product development initiatives of key technologies. CTO team lead for virtualisation, containers, ransomware, security and compliance. Hires new college graduates and mentors them though leadership development programs.

Senior Sales Engineer and Technical Evangelist in EMEA for EMC's $2B+ Backup Recovery Systems (BRS) Division. Customer briefing presenter and subject matter expert speaker at corporate and industry events. Author of numerous technical notes for pre-sales awareness and contributor to white papers on the future of data protection and information management.

Senior Sales Engineer focused on supporting data protection and information management sales in Ireland, the UK and across EMEA. Worked with customers and sales teams to assess requirements and redesign backup infrastructure to maximise the value of existing deployments or transition to modern scalable infrastructure. Presented product roadmaps and company vision to customers at their locations across EMEA or at corporate events.

Worked with sales teams to develop repeatable solutions for on premises applications deployed with EMC products. Designed, built and ran large scale proof of concepts as part of a team to help close multi-million Euro sales and delivered EMC product demos locally in Cork, Ireland and remotely across EMEA.

Primary Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux system administrator for the EMC Internet Solutions Group in EMEA. Responsible for platform deployment, on going maintenance and platform level security of deployed systems. On call 24x7 to ensure customer service level agreements were met.

Worked troubleshooting the Symmetrix 4/Symmetrix 5 ESCON Director to component level. Worked on the Cork Campus manufacturing floor at every level of systems test to follow the lifecycle of Symmetrix components from manufacturing arrival to customer final delivery.