Jeremy Brown
UK&I Presales Manager at Red Hat
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Summary
Jeremy Brown is an IT consultant who has a broad range of skills and has worked on a wide range of technical roles with over 10 years experience in industry and consulting. He has worked in the Telecoms, Mobile, Resources and Financial industries.
As a Software Engineer Jeremy has written software for mobile phones, from the core operating system to native and Java based applications. He has developed software throughout the entire systems lifecycle from design, development and testing through to the deployment and support of an application.
As a Consultant Jeremy has played key architectural and development roles for various clients, this combined his business knowledge with his engineering skills to deliver working software for clients in a tight time frame. He has worked on a BRMS system that processes millions of financial transactions per day, lead teams of developers in both the UK and in India, re-engineered a critical financial system to vastly improve performance and worked on projects from many different industries during this period.
More recently as a Consultant, Jeremy has worked for clients in Europe and Africa and work has included setting up outsourcing and software development capabilities in new markets, carrying out data center design, optimisation and virtualisation and network infrastructure consulting.
In his current role as Senior Solution Architect Jeremy is responsible for assisting Red Hat’s JBoss sales team in delivering their industry-leading Open Source middleware solutions to major clients.
Specialties
IT Consulting, Software Development, Virtualisation, Cloud, PaaS, Java EE, Java ME, C, C++, Symbian, SQL, XML, HTML, XSLT, AJAX, CSS, JavaScript, BRMS systems, JBoss Application Server, IBM’s Websphere Application Server, IBM ILOG JRules, Network technologies, Cisco, Juniper, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus, IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact, OpenNMS, Nagios, Citrix XenServer, VMWare, IBM Blade Centers, IBM SANs and using IBM Storage Manager, Unix (Solaris, AIX), Windows, Linux, Mac
Experience
Manager, Solution Architects, UKI
Red Hat
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHT; Computer Software industry
June 2011 – Present (9 months) London, United Kingdom
The Solutions Architect Manager is a key member of the sales team, providing leadership and guidance to a team of technical pre-sales personnel (Solutions Architects) responsible for positioning Red Hat products and services to end customers and partners. This includes working with regional sales management, consulting, engineering, and support in order to meet company-outlined sales objectives.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Managing pre-sales technical activities for the development and implementation of Red Hat solutions.
- Collaborating with sales management on customer engagement strategies.
- Selecting, developing, and evaluating personnel.
- Overseeing the development of detailed customer installation and/or system integration plans.
- Providing and overseeing pre-sales technical support in sales presentations and product demonstrations.
- Working with marketing and product managers to provide feedback on Red Hat products and technologies.
- Serving as company liaison on specific technical projects with customers.
JBoss Middleware Senior Solution Architect
Red Hat
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHT; Computer Software industry
January 2011 – Present (1 year 2 months) London, United Kingdom
As a Middleware Solution Architect in Red Hat's UK, Ireland and Eastern Europe presales team where I'm responsible for assisting Red Hat's sales team in delivering our industry-leading Open Source middleware solutions to major clients.
I have a diverse understanding of Enterprise Architecture, Open Source and Java and JBoss Middleware products and have a wide amount of experience in these technologies.
I'm responsible for sales coordination, management updates and documentation and use my skills as an experienced professional, and my understanding of industry best practice to deliver results to sales and customers.
The J2EE middleware technologies that I have a deep understanding of include Application Servers, SOA, BPM, BRMS, JMS, Portal and development toolkits, in addition I have developed a strong interest in Cloud and PaaS platforms and how to deliver this effectively.
Director
Limbe Labs
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
May 2009 – December 2010 (1 year 8 months)
Limbe Labs is a limited company in Cameroon, through our consulting work we meet the needs of clients in Europe and Cameroon. We try to contribute back to the technology community in Cameroon by building up and encouraging the local developer community and identifying local start-ups to provide seed stage funding.
Limbe Labs has the following offerings, outsourcing web and application development from Europe, providing consultancy services and lately products (VoIP, Managed Services and Internet Optimisation Appliances) to the local Cameroonian market.
As a Director Jeremy has been responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of the firm and for operations management. In addition Jeremy is heavily involved in sales and consulting engagements on behalf of the firm, utilizing his previous experience as a consultant at Accenture.
Jeremy successfully kick started and organised the first two BarCamps in Cameroon, which brought together the largest gathering of IT geeks in Cameroon and kick started initiatives such as Cameroon’s Google Technology Users Group, the Cameroon Internet Users Group and the Cameroon Linux Users Group. He has organised and co-ordinated the logistics, sponsorship, publicity, venue, catering, fast Internet connection and every other detail that goes into making a large developer focused event like this a success.
Most recently Jeremy has been responsible for developing some of the new products that Limbe Labs has released into the Cameroonian market. This involved analysing the local market, prototyping and building the products and writing the sales materials. The products produced include our specially tailored hosted VoIP platform, a Managed Services model that will work in Cameroon and productising an Internet Optimisation Appliance that enhances limited Internet connections for large number of users.
Manager
Accenture
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ACN; Management Consulting industry
May 2004 – May 2009 (5 years 1 month)
From joining Accenture as an Analyst in their consulting workforce, Jeremy was rapidly promoted first to Consultant and then to Manager, which is considered executive level within the company. During this time Jeremy has gained in depth experience working for enterprise clients in a variety of industries, throughout the full systems lifecycle. Roles have developed and built a broad range of transferrable skills in architecture, design, development and management.
Software Engineer
Teleca
Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry
August 2002 – May 2004 (1 year 10 months)
Immediately after graduating from university Jeremy was hired as a graduate Software Engineer by Teleca Ltd, suppliers of software services for all industries where mobile and wireless solutions are used, to work on Symbian Operating System projects for Nokia. Jeremy became an expert on the Symbian OS, which runs on a large majority of smartphones in the market today. During this time Jeremy was recognized as a technical expert and a strong communicator and helped prepare Nokia’s Symbian training material as well as delivering training courses on Symbian OS.
Intern Software Engineer
Openwave
Public Company; 501-1000 employees; OPWV; Computer Software industry
January 1998 – October 2001 (3 years 10 months)
For nine months before starting his university course and for a period of four months each summer during his time at university Jeremy worked as a Software Engineer in a salaried industrial placement program with Openwave a global provider of software solutions for the communications and media industries.
During this time Jeremy worked within the product development team of the first WAP gateway to be deployed in the world. In addition to working in the various engineering teams of Openwave’s core products for the telecommunications industry Jeremy also wrote tutorials and guides for the WML language and interacted with the developer community that Openwave was fostering. Jeremy’s roles involved working in testing, development and software engineering.
Education
University of Manchester - Institute of Science and Technology
MEng, Software Engineering
1998 – 2002
Activities and Societies: Rowing, CU
