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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Client Technical Architect Telco Global Accounts at Lenovo ISG

  • Education

    • La Jolla High School

      1976 - 1977
      Yes

    • Punahou School

      1975 - 1976

      Activities and Societies: Tennis team, Soccer team

    • University of Geneva

      1984 - 1986
      Master of International Economics

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

      1979 - 1983
      BA International Relations, Broadcast Commincations

      B.A. in Broadcast Communications and Political Science

  • Experience

    • Brooktree corporation

      Jan 1988 - Jan 1990
      Marketing

    • Digital Equipment Corporation

      Jan 1990 - Jan 1995
      Network Ops Manager

    • Motorola GmbH

      Aug 1995 - Jan 1997
      EMEA, Director of Network Projects

      Manager, IT Projects Europe

    • Karamea GmbH

      Feb 1997 - Jan 2007
      President and CEO

    • Blade Network Technologies

      Feb 2007 - Nov 2010
      Sales Director - Southern EMEA

    • IBM

      Nov 2010 - Dec 2014
      Senior Systems Engineer, Networking

      Specialties:> Multi-cultural technical and sales training in English, German or French> Strong networking technical skills.> Ethernet and TCP/IP switching and routing> DataCenter Bridging (DCB) / Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)> Fiber Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE)> High-Performance Computing (HPC) Interconnects> DataCenter Switching fabric convergence> International Business Development.> Strategic OEM technical partnership management.> Blade Server market knowledge.> RoCEE> Software Defined Network SDN> OpenFlow> Integrated Data Center solutions> Data Center Networking> Network virtualisation, 802.1Qbg, VxLAN> Storage convergence> OpenDaylight> OpenStack Show less

    • Lenovo

      Feb 2015 - Mar 2017

      My responsibilities include strategic engagements such as:engagements with customer including executive levelcommunity engagementsbusiness development engagementsblogging and authoring white papersFocus Areas:Open NetworkingSDN & NFV Networking (Openflow, Overlay, VNF, MANO, ...)DataCenter Network Specialist (Fabric,Layer 2 & 3, FCoE, virtualised networking, HPC environment, ...)Deep Server market knowledge.Storage skills and deep SDS knowledge.Deep Operating System and Virtualization skills. Show less

      • Business Development Manager, Lenovo Networking, EMEA

        Jul 2016 - Mar 2017

      • Business Development Manager, Software-defined Data Center (SDDC), EMEA

        Feb 2015 - Jun 2016

    • Lenovo Global Technology Germany GmbH

      Mar 2017 - May 2020
      Product Manager, EMEA, Lenovo Networking - Ethernet and Software-defined Networking Products

      Focused on Business Development, Ethernet, Data Center, 25GE 100GE, REST API, Nutanix, Microsoft Azure, SDN, OpenStack, VMware, NSX, VXLAN, Cumulus, ONIE

    • Lenovo Data Center Group - EMEA

      May 2020 - Oct 2020
      Technical Business Development Manager for Telco and Service Providers at Lenovo DCG

      Business development and solutions architect for Lenovo DCG telco and service provider customers with a focus on edge computing, IOT, 5G and virtualized infrastructure running on Lenovo Edge and Data Center platforms. https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/data-center/iot-edge-solutions/

    • Lenovo

      Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
      Business Development Manager at Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group - EMEA

    • Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG)

      Oct 2021 - now
      Client Technical Architect for Global Telecom Service Providers

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • VMware Technical Solutions Professional VTSP 5.5

      Jul 2017

    • Lenovo Data Center Technical Sales Professional

      May 2017

    • Nutanix NSEN (Lenovo)

      May 2017