IT Storage Infrastructure specialist Stockholm, Sweden

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IT Storage Infrastructure specialist

Stockholm, Sweden

Modersmål English, Flytande Latvian, Mellan Svenska

  • Experience and knowledge of working and advising over 10,000 customers.
  • Highest customer saving was $1m in a storage purchase
  • 33 years experience in all sectors of the worldwide IT market

Kompetenser (15)

Procurement

TECHNICAL DESIGN

BUYING/PROCUREMENT

MAINTENANCE

PLUMBING

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

REBUILD

Marketing

PRICING

HCI

Strategic planning

CONTRACT REVIEW

PRODUCT MARKETING

PURCHASING

COMPUTER SECURITY

Sammanfattning

I have worked in many different roles, from programmer, technical expert, system designer, team manager, senior manager, business manager, product marketing advisor to Computer Industry Analyst/Futurist.   I like to create elegant computer solutions, work in teams, influence change, innovate and achieve business objectives.  I have successfully worked on maintaining, migrating, upgrading existing IT infrastructures, implementing the latest technologies to running 45 consultants in 18 countries and been responsible for international sales teams.  This experience enables me to work on both the vendor and customer side, where I can also do strategic planning, reviews, purchasing, contract reviews to negotiation.  Working on the vendor side I can sell, design solutions, position and price products accordingly.  I have 32 years of experience across most industry sectors and technologies, have worked with 1000’s of customers and 100’s of vendors which has given me an understanding of where the industry is going, how it works and what is needed to succeed. 

 

Selecting and designing server, hyperconverged and storage infrastructure solutions

Bid and sales reviews, pricing, negotiation and contract review, RFI, RFP creation

Proven architectural and technical design skill and the ability to understand what will or will not work

System design/review, architecture, procurement, troubleshooting and debugging.

Motivational leader, public speaker and successful in spotting new IT trends.

Major Achievements

Successfully spotted and wrote first papers in Gartner about flash storage, HCI/integrated systems, distributed/edge computing, AI/ML storage and Software Defined Storage trends, world wide lead analyst for flash storage arrays.

Business Development Manager responsible for $100m+ Central and Northern Europe high end server business. 

Designed world’s first 100km distance synchronous high availability active/active geographically dispersed compute cluster 2000-2001

Designed world’s largest SAN for one of the largest German Banks in 1999.

Implemented automated system managed storage (DFSMS) for Royal Bank of Scotland IBM mainframe environment in 1993

Installed, implemented and supported the first IBM Mainframe computer security system software for UK Govt, Central Electricity Generating Board in 1987.

Professionell bakgrund

Senior Research Director/Analyst
Gartner

2008-09 - 2019-01

Covered the server and storage marketplace, published more than 20 Magic Quadrants, 100 papers, spoke in conferences internationally, met and advised 1000's of clients every year. Performed contract review and purchase negotiations.
Enterprise Systems Manager
Sun Microsystems

1999-08 - 2008-08

EMEA Chief Storage Architect, also worked as Professional Services Manager, Storage Business manager and High End server Business Manager
Senior Technical Analyst
Royal Bank of Scotland

1988-07 - 1999-07

IBM Systems Programmer, Team Leader, Architect and Technical Design Authority for Mainframe, Unix and Oracle systems.
Systems Programmer
IBM

1985-08 - 1988-06

UK Govt, CEGB
Trainee Systems Programmer, computer operator.

Akademisk bakgrund

BA in Management and IT
Open University

1989-01 - 1992-01

Higher National Diploma in Computer Science
Polytechnic of Central London (Westminster University)

2019-10 - 1983-06

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