Pure Storage

• Define and refine capability, operability and user experience for Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) product, which orchestrates the protection and recovery of VMware-based workloads to the AWS cloud. 
• Set future product strategy based on customer needs, competitive analysis, market and technology trends. 
• Support and enable the engineering and solutions teams to design and build the product. 
• Define and enable the GTM strategy in EMEA.
• Customer/Market Research – gather customer feedback to understand key issues/needs and trends in  customer base. 
• Deliver competitive research and SE/Sales support materials as well as customer/internal presentations.

Senior Product Manager

OneIQ

OneIQ combines fullstack observability and teamwork with data science - to optimize cost and performance of cloud-native and traditional applications, across hybrid and multi cloud environments.

• Responsible for establishing the Technical Presales Function at OneIQ. 
• Creation of Technical Marketing collateral and customer presentation assets. 
• Lead generation activities, technical presentations to Customers. 
• Coordinate and manage POC’s and product demonstrations.

Principal Solutions Engineer

VMware

•	Presales for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and vSAN opportunities across Public Sector.
•	Promote VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) strategy and how this architecture supports a multi cloud solution consuming services in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure & Google Cloud.
•	Architectural knowledge to SME level for Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) vSAN & VCF deployments, relevant to customer hardware selection (ReadyNode, DELL VxRail, HPE Synergy).
•	Present VMware’s value proposition, technologies, strategy, and product roadmaps to CXO level and across all disciplines of the enterprise.
•	Responsible for technical RFP responses/collaboration with Sales teams.
•	Provide training and development to Sales, Engineering and Partners.
•	Coordinate and manage customer VCF/vSAN Proof-of Concepts (PoC) and demonstrations.
•	Develop and maintain relationships with OEMs & partners.
•	Lead generation activities. Participation in Webinars, Roadshows, and Customer Experience Days.

Senior Solution Engineer, Hybrid Cloud – SDDC

Nutanix

•	Articulate the features and benefits of Nutanix HCI solution to Enterprise Retail accounts.
•	Understand the customer's business drivers and how to map these to Nutanix solutions.
•	Provide technical leadership in the Requirements Discovery, Solution Development, and Solution Proposal stages of the sales cycle.
•	Perform product demonstrations and presentations in support of company roadshows and events.

Senior Systems Engineer

UK Ministry of Defence

•	Responsible for the delivery of technical solutions based on business requirements to a large multi-site, vSphere 5.5/6 environment based on HPE Blade / Cisco UCS compute, and HPE / NetApp SAN storage. Recent solutions include the infrastructure design for a large Sharepoint deployment, a Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop VDI environment, and a high performance Data Science experiment platform using GPUs and NVMe storage based on vSAN.
•	Produced a technical research paper advocating HCI to promote migration from legacy and modernisation of traditional applications to a DevOps model.
•	Management of PoCs for the evaluation of new technology offerings to the business, including a containerisation experiment using Openshift, Kubernetes and Docker.
•	Designing solutions in an iterative and incremental approach according to the principles of the agile delivery framework.
•	Provide overall authority and due diligence for the management of the vSphere estate, ensuring product updates and roadmap developments are relevant and delivered on time.
•	Provide consultancy and guidance to internal project and app development teams looking to deploy solutions onto vSphere.
•	Implementation and administration of Citrix NetScaler and F5 load balancing solutions to specific project requirements.
•	Regular liaison with Storage and Network architects & SMEs to ensure wide-ranging technical awareness and shared standards.
•	Project manage the handover to BAU implementation and support teams, providing technical assistance and guidance where required.
•	Manage the vendor relationship for licensing, support and maintenance contracts over £2 million. Promote technical awareness and future insight within the organisation with these key software suppliers through the organisation of tech days and presentations to the wider business.

Senior Infrastructure Architect

DXC Technology

•	Led project and team of 3 developers to design and deliver an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform to enable one-click deployment of virtual infrastructure into to the client's vSphere estate.
•	Performed detailed analysis of IaaS marketplace, evaluating private and public cloud offerings from VMware, AWS & Microsoft Azure.
•	Researched client's existing commercial & technical business processes and used results to shape effectiveness of platform.
•	Promoting the development of Infrastructure-as-a-Service delivery throughout the client organisation.
•	Architected and implemented IaaS platform using VMware vCenter, vRealise Orchestrator (vRA, vCO) and vRealise Automation (vRA) to integrate seamlessly with client's existing software stack and physical infrastructure.
•	Delivered effective presentations to management team, key project stakeholders and end-users.
•	Produced architectural (HLD/LLD), procedural and support documentation and managed handover of solution into live.

Technical Project Manager

•	Responsible for the management, architectural direction, health & performance of the Virtualised estate.
•	Responsible for managing the demand, capacity and performance of the IT estate, and optimisation of the existing virtual infrastructure.
•	Evaluation of new VMware product releases and updates providing analysis and recommendations to client.
•	Architectural roadmap development for the virtualised estate.
•	Performance testing of existing applications using SolarWinds.
•	Implementation of strategy to right size virtual machines.
•	Initial implementation, testing and documentation of major infrastructure migration / upgrade work.
•	Performance turning and capability/capacity assessment for the virtualised estate, interpreting outputs from Solarwinds and vCenter.

VMware Architect

Accomplished IT professional with 25 years of EMEA experience in Technical Presales and Solution
Architecture, now leveraging that expertise to lead product strategy as a Product Manager. With a
proven track record in cloud, storage and data protection solutions from both startup to Enterprise
environments, I combine technical insight with a pragmatic and results-driven approach.

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