Apr 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · London · Hybrid

• Proofpoint is the leader in people-centric cybersecurity. We help customers around the world combat threats, safeguard their data and modernise compliance.
• Our complete, extensible email security platform blocks malware and non-malware email threats, such as email fraud—also known as business email compromise (BEC)—using our Advanced BEC Defence.

Oct 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, pioneered the enterprise-ready event streaming platform. With Confluent, organisations benefit from the first event streaming platform built for the enterprise with the ease of use, scalability, security and flexibility required by the most discerning Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new way of managing data infrastructure, focused on data in motion. Confluent's cloud native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion and is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data streaming, from any source, consistently across the organisation.
• With Confluent, our customers can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital customer experiences and real-time business operations.
• Our mission is to help every organisation harness data in motion so they can compete and thrive in the modern, digital world.

Oct 2017 – Oct 2021 · 4 yrs · London, United Kingdom

• Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Machine data is one of the fastest growing and most valuable parts of big data — generated by every component of IT infrastructures, applications, mobile devices, website clickstreams, social data, sensors and more.
• Splunk is the leading software platform for machine data that enables customers to gain real-time Operational Intelligence. Our company's mission is to address the challenges and opportunities of managing massive streams of machine-generated big data.
• More than half of the Fortune 100 and thousands of enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers use Splunk software to harness the power of their machine data for application management, IT operations, security, web intelligence, customer and business analytics and much more.
• Focused on bringing next generation use cases and solutions to new commercial customers in the UK. Focused on large national and international customers who want to enhance their customer experience, while improving operational insight with a strong security posture.
• Customer Benefits:
• Improved Security Posture: From Ransomware Response to full SIEM deployment
• Greater Operational Intelligence: From IT Operations to Service Intelligence
• Gain Business Insight: Improving Customer Experience to faster Application Development
• Customer Focus: New Customers to Splunk, or Customers looking to expand their use of Splunk
• Industry solution Focus: Financial Services, Legal, Retail, Manufacturing, Business Services

Apr 2014 – Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Stratford Upon Avon

• Creating new business sales for Simplify IT a specialist partner business. From white space to multi-million dollar account development and project deployment. Delivering focused solution and digital transformation selling across many business sectors, driving relationships from CEO and CFO through to Infrastructure Operations and DevOps. Delivering Digital transformation solutions across various business sectors. Stakeholder Management from CEO and CFO through to Infrastructure Operations and DevOps. Managing relationships with key partners and vendors and project reporting to all parties.
• International Experience defining global backup and security solutions
• Complex projects management bringing together Servers, Storage, Networking, Security, monitoring, automation and complete DC transformation
• Cloud –Providing both BAAS and IAAS Solutions
• Contract negotiation with commercial teams and vendors
• Scheduling and management of partner team and vendor resources including logistics and facilities
• Project delivery under AGILE methodology
• Capacity Planning, data analysis and modelling of new solution

Mar 2014 – Present · 12 yrs 2 mos · Worcester, United Kingdom

• TiffinBytes is a sales, marketing and project management company specialising in providing and delivering converged infrastructure solutions across many different industries and businesses.
• Complex Projects -Project Management for full Data Center Transformation using AGILE methodology. Virtualisation and consolidation matrix team management. Bid support and final negotiation. Vendor and internal resource management. Customer stake holder reporting. Escalation and resolution management. Prince2 Certified.
• www.tiffinbytes.co.uk

Nov 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Coventry, United Kingdom

• Account Manager for named accounts in the South West selling complex storage and converged infrastruture solutions in collaboration with Cisco and VMware

Oct 2007 – Nov 2012 · 5 yrs 1 mo · United Kingdom

• Managing accounts across multiple business sectors selling HP's portfolio, Technical Services and Consulting to Director level and Senior IT and business teams. Defining and executing strategic business plans. Accurately forecasting revenues and margins. Managing large virtual teams of internal sales, technical presales and support personnel.

Nov 2002 – Apr 2005 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Nov 2001 – Nov 2002 · 1 yr

Sep 1999 – Nov 2001 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Apr 2005 – Oct 2007 · 2 yrs 6 mos · United Kingdom

• Selling and architecting HP solutions based around x86 blades and server architectures. Driving sales and closing significant deals with Global clients including Exxon, AXA and O2.