Dan Cockett

• Managing projects with SMB customers regarding ICT solutions. • Environmentals (Power, UPS, Generator, Solar), heat removal and cooling. • Managed relationships with suppliers and customers. • Planning and coordinating delivery, installation and configuration. • Support of the customer through installation, migration to and use of new ICT platforms.

• Consulting to customers regarding ICT storage and server solutions in the SME sector. • Project Management of customer projects. • Solutions were designed to cover Backup, DR plans, Storage usage. • Structured cabling and power back up systems. As power delivery is a large problem in Zimbabwe, a lot of time was taken in providing backup systems and UPS’s to cover outage periods. • Documentation and support of customer.

Driving the sales and profile of:- • HDS Content Archiving Platform – Retention and Compliance of data to meet govt set regulations on transactional history, mortgages and financial transactions. (KingIII) • RAMSAN SSD (Solid State Disc) – external SSD platform providing profound application acceleration to I/O bound batch processing jobs and other I/O intensive applications. • Nexenta SDS (Software Defined Storage) Software - Nextenta SDS provided vendor agnostic extended disc functionality solutions

• Partnered XSIGO Systems, specialising in Infrastructure I/O Virtualisation. • The I/O Gateway and virtualisation provided flexible configurations regarding NIC usage in virtualised environments. • reduced the amount of cabling within cabinets whilst improving bandwidth. • Allowed a more structured approach to cable management and simplified documentation

• Management of team providing Project Mgmt support for installation of fibre optic solutions into housing estates. • Solutions provided enabled smart homes, o Intra estate advertising & communication. o Security (Camera monitoring, Secured Complex access) o Internet and services. • IP Telephony and IP TV with integrated satellite connectivity.

• Managed the CEE business activities and relationship with IBM. • Provided updates and support from both the technical and sales side. • Helped place INRANGE as the preferred supplier in Enterprise FICON installations. • Revenue per year USD20m+

• Pre and Post Sales SE consulting on solutions for ESCON, WAN and MAN. • Technology updates and on-site technical.

Project Management

Focused on Management Studies