Consulting Technical Solutions Manager
West Palm Beach, Florida Area
Technical Solutions Manager in IBM's Strategic Outsourcing organization (Complex Engagement Services), with over 30 years’ experience in the Information Technology (IT) Industry. In my current role I am responsible for the development and sales of IBM Strategic Outsourcing solutions directly to our clients. I lead multinational, multiple discipline teams of subject-matter experts, using a combination of IBM standard and custom solutions offerings and orchestrate the development of complex, multiple year, custom solutions and associated cost cases, all with the goal to ensure consistent delivery of high quality services and/or solutions which meet my client’s business and technical requirements and fulfill IBM's obligations. My leadership role provides the foundation of the IBM solution that influences our sales teams, human resources, C&N and delivery strategies. I own the definition of the services solution components, am accountable for the overall success of the engagement and am the primary source of IBM Global Services engagement management and solution design across all product components and technical disciplines.Key positions have included senior customer executive interfacing roles, proposals and contract negotiations (several > $Billion deals, including IBM's largest to date at over $7B), solution architecture and strategy development, leadership of technical solution teams, external sales and several direct people management assignments (IBM Data Center Manager at customer's World Headquarters locations - Unisource Worldwide Inc in Windsor Ct. & Ryder Systems Inc. "Ryder" in Miami).