Alex Martin

Alex Martin

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  • About me

    Storage Technical Sales Manager

  • Education

    • University College London, U. of London

      2012 - 2013
      Master of Science (MSc) Financial Systems Engineering Merit
    • University of Worcester

      2009 - 2012
      Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons Computing 1st
  • Experience

    • Resource Group

      May 2008 - Sept 2012
      Engineering Support

      Maintaining existing Excel VBA spreadsheet systems while developing a replacement database driven solution on a Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack.

    • J.P. Morgan

      Jun 2013 - Sept 2013
      Intern

      Project spanning over three months to perform Big Data analysis of seven years worth of trade data generated from the fixed income trade process, the aim of which is to improve the trade and e-trade decision making process.

    • Owls Hall Environmental Ltd - Specialise in Civil and Environmental Engineering

      Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
      Application Developer

      Short term contract.

    • IBM

      Jan 2014 - now

      I lead a team of technical experts and specialists who support IBM clients and business partners across the United Kingdom & Ireland. The Team provide technical expertise in support of transforming #storage & #data platforms. Technical development and delivery lead of a backup and storage analytics team. Hands on leadership with the complete software development life cycle along with subject matter expertise responsibility for enterprise backup and storage systems and the governance and process surrounding them. Experience includes technical authorship, mentoring, invention with patenting, regular presenter and running training sessions/workshops. Backup and storage consulting based on hard data and requirements adhering to best practices and the latest technology. Work with customer environment world wide, cross industry, cross vendor with a proven track record of success. Proficient developer for the purpose’s analytics covering capture, manipulation, visualisation and modelling resulting in revenue. Using in depth technical knowledge to drive data protection sales to enterprise clients. Involves elements of teaching, presentation, solution design and development spanning multiple technical disciplines.

      • Storage Technical Sales Manager

        Jan 2024 - now
      • Storage Technical Specialist

        Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
      • Senior Storage Consultant

        Feb 2018 - May 2022
      • Storage Consultant

        Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
      • Technical Sales Specialist

        Jan 2014 - Mar 2015
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Thomson Reuters EIKON Certification

      Thomson Reuters
      Jan 2013
    • IBM New Generation Storage Badge

      IBM
      Sept 2017
      View certificate certificate
    • IBM Storage Distributed Block v1

      IBM
      Jun 2017
    • Financial Markets Industry Foundations

      IBM
      View certificate certificate
    • PRINCE2® Practitioner certificate in Project Management

      BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
      Sept 2015
    • Architectural Thinking

      IBM
    • IBM Design Thinking Practitioner

      IBM
      Jan 2017
      View certificate certificate
    • IBM Storage Management and Data Protection v1

      IBM
    • IBM Storage Strategy and Solutions v1

      IBM
      View certificate certificate