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* Enjoying time off and thinking about new challenges in future. * I also: * took flying lessons * first cross country SOLO, and caught the flying bug * hiked in NZs remote places * It's such a beautiful country * read books and anything I could get my hands on without worrying about dawn light * swam in the freezing Pacific Ocean in winter * with sweet memories of Dubais heated and cooled pools and the Gulf * interviewed all my friends about the meaning of life and family * Result: Viva la Vida! * worked with NZ tradies on changes on house and garden * occasionally looked at job opportunities, nothing took my fancy....so far * Update May 2012: Who can resist a Business Development job for Software on Mainframe in Australia? Not me.

Lead a team of up to 18 IT Specialists across Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe to support System z SW Sales, represented the region in the worldwide technical leadership team, promoted the platform and its capabilities extensively Led various initiatives in region, focusing on cloud computing and business analytics, often performing the IT Architect's role in initial stages of projects

Independent consultant for Workflow Management and Business Process Analysis

Immersing in Kiwi culture, setting up, travelling, exploring

Lead an IT Specialist team to support System z SW Sales in Russia and CIS, besides working as System z SW Architect ensuring sound concepts and technical feasibility of complex IT solutions, and guidance for specialised IT Architects

Strategic Enterprise Architect for midrange/UNIX solutions, designed an early version of a private cloud solution for a NZ customer

Author of various Redbooks (search my name in www.redbooks.ibm.com), project manager, facilitator and teacher for various workshops - Lead and managed high performance teams of 7-20 Subject Matter Experts onsite and remotely to produce course material and technical documents for publication

Consulted customers worldwide on architecture, setup and possible configurations for business process management and application server software solutions. Advised customers and consulting service colleagues in various countries and managed internships to broaden WebSphere MQ Workflow skills within IBM. Presented zSeries and WebSphere Software at CeBit in Hanover, Germany, and represented IBM in organisation Guide Share Europe, WebSphere Working Group.

Technical Consulting about S/390 and zSeries, e-business consulting for mainframe Supported S/390 and zSeries Sales Department and customers in the Southwest of Germany in all S/390 technical areas. Presented at courses, workshops, and conferences.

IT Solution Architect, ambassador for IBM Software and Solutions on z system (IBM Mainframe). Increased awareness and created interest in IBM Enterprise Software in the market, identified potentially new customers, communicated the client business value of IBM products and services, assembled virtual teams for deal progression and lead them to success. Analysed costs and benefits of movement in and out of cloud environments, and in between cloud solutions, workload consolidation, and Software optimisation

Activities and Societies: Majors: Production Management and Logistics, Controlling, Finance