Enterprise Computer Hardware and Software Consultant
Thailand
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- Technical Consultant Manager at DataOne Asia (Thailand)
- Past
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- NonStop Business Development Manager at Hewlett-Packard Thailand
- Principal Consultant at Fujitsu Systems Business (Thailand)
- Product Management at Hitachi Data Systems
- Processor Product and SE Manager at HDS Canada
- Product Manager, Regional Systems Engineer and Field Operations Manager at Amdahl Canada
- Computer Services Management at University of Manitoba
- Education
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- University of Manitoba
- University of Alberta
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Douglas Reimer’s Summary
Forty+ years of experience in enterprise computing involving product management, consulting and negotiating in vendor and customer environments.
Douglas Reimer’s Specialties:
Expertise in hardware and software product management, virtualization, RFP creation and evaluation, capacity planning, project management and problem resolution for mainframes, enterprise servers, software, storage and SANs.
Douglas Reimer’s Experience
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Technical Consultant Manager
DataOne Asia (Thailand)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1999 — Present (10 years 4 months)
Strategic consulting of marketing and sales support for enterprise servers (HP NonStop, IBM zSeries, Sun and Fujitsu M Series), storage (HP XP, HDS and Sun), SANs (FC and FICON) and software including strategies, virtualization, pricing, competitive analysis, proposal writing, and presentation creation for customer briefings and internal training.
Project management of various mission critical installations, migrations and performance tuning at leading banks and telcos in Thailand.
Proposals and pricing for HP, HDS, Sun, Fujitsu, Brocade, CA and ACI BASE24 products. -
NonStop Business Development Manager
Hewlett-Packard Thailand
(Public Company; HPQ; Computer Hardware industry)
August 2008 — March 2009 (8 months)
Business development for NonStop servers including performance analysis, capacity projection and pricing presentations and proposals. Six month contract.
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Principal Consultant
Fujitsu Systems Business (Thailand)
(Public Company; FJTSY; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2006 — August 2006 (6 months)
Sales and marketing support for PrimePower enterprise Solaris servers including workload performance analysis, capacity projection and pricing presentations and proposals. Six month contract.
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Product Management
Hitachi Data Systems
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1994 — January 1999 (4 years 3 months)
Santa Clara, CA - Worldwide sales, marketing support and strategies for MLPF, systems, storage and services; SE tools acquisition and training for capacity planning and performance guarantees. Analysis of IBM software pricing and recommendations for ISV negotiations.
Santa Clara - Worldwide processor marketing support: create and present processor presentations at the SCHQ Executive Briefing Center, roadshows, trade shows and internal training in the Americas and Asia Pacific with primary focus on Skyline mainframes. -
Processor Product and SE Manager
HDS Canada
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
May 1990 — November 1994 (4 years 7 months)
Toronto - SE Manager and Consultant: responsible for coordinating sales support and strategies. Create, maintain and present product and corporate presentations across Canada. Participated on all HDS Santa Clara systems announcements for GX Series processors and IBM mainframe announcement response teams.
Toronto - Canadian Processor Products Manager: interfacing with customer executives, management and technical personnel as well as HDS Canada and HDS International executive, management, sales, SE’s and service personnel.
Organized and participated in a week long tour of Hitachi facilities in Japan for Canadian customer executives. -
Product Manager, Regional Systems Engineer and Field Operations Manager
Amdahl Canada
(Computer Hardware industry)
June 1980 — May 1990 (10 years)
Toronto, Ontario - Processor and Peripheral Products Manager: product management interface among Canadian sales, Regional SE’s, management and corporate headquarters. Organized and participated in numerous Canada wide roadshows and announcement teams for MDF, 5990, 5890, 580 processors, 6100 DASD and 4725/45 front end processors. Organized and participated in two week long tours of Fujitsu facilities in Japan for Canadian customer executives.
Calgary, Alberta - Regional Systems Engineer: technical marketing and sales support for Western Canada including Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver.
Calgary, Alberta - Field Operations Manager: manage eight Systems Engineer and Field Engineer customer service personnel in Calgary -
Computer Services Management
University of Manitoba
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1968 — May 1980 (12 years 1 month)
Computer Services Manager: second level manager for five systems programmers and 21 operations personnel. Hardware and software vendor evaluation and negotiation with IBM, Amdahl, DEC and others. Remote facilities included campus wide LAN and high speed RJE links to the Admin Data Center, Medical College, University of Winnipeg and Atomic Energy of Canada.
Operations Manager and Systems Programming - IBM 360/65, 370/158, 370/168, Amdahl V7, MFT, MVT, Hasp, JES2
Systems Programmer/Analyst - S/360 and S/370 systems programming and academic technical consulting roles.
Douglas Reimer’s Education
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University of Manitoba
Computer Science 1966 — 1968
Became employee from 1968 - 1980
- Activities and Societies:
- Developed software for bi-directional communication between an IBM 360/65 and DEC PDP-9. One of the first non-IBM devices ever attached to IBM S/360s.
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University of Alberta
BSC , Math Physics , 1962 — 1966
First computer job was with Atomic Energy of Canada at their plant in Chalk River, Ontario. Systems programing on DEC PDP-1 during summer of 1965.
- Activities and Societies:
- First computer experience was scientific programming using Fortran running on an IBM 7090.
Douglas Reimer’s Contact Settings
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