Karl Perkins

Current

Solution Manager - Global Partner Solutions at TANDBERG

Past

EMEA Solution Architect at TANDBERG
Director of Pre-sales and Delivery at Evident Software
IT Manager at Blue Group International

Global MIS Director at Micromuse Inc.
Director, Data Centre Operations/Technical Operations at GlobalKom
Senior Manager Strategic Planning at Nortel Networks
Pre-Sales Consultant at Morse Group Ltd.
Product Test & Applications Engineer at Brand Communications Ltd

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Education

Loughborough University
Loughborough University
Ludlow College, Shropshire

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Information Technology and Services

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Karl Perkins’s Summary

Key Achievements

• Member of O2’s Executive Advisory Board
• Computing Magazine – “From Extinction to Distinction”
• Chaired VoIP for Business
• Delivered the then largest file cluster in Europe for Homebase
• Implemented the core real-time database infrastructure for Sky TV

Summary

Karl Perkins has worked for TANDBERG, Evident, Morse and Nortel in pre-sales and strategic consulting roles delivering enterprise and carrier class solutions. At Micromuse, Karl changed tack and became their Global IT Director for just over three years. He has a BSc in Computer Science (Loughborough 1994), taught at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level, studied to PhD level, and is published within the field of Loosely Coupled Distributed Computing. Karl presented and chaired at “VoIP for Business” in 2005 after his work was recognised by Cisco and HSo. Most recently, Karl was interviewed by Computing Magazine in June 2006 for a piece about Network performance, convergence and management.

As an experienced IT Professional, Karl has worked as a client, manufacturer, reseller, and service provider, and has a tremendous amount of business acumen to offer from all perspectives. This broad range of skills, plus technical depth is the main reason why Evident Software approached Karl in May 2006 to be their Director of Pre-Sales in Europe. He is now working as EMEA Solution Architect at TANDBERG, after successfully working with some of their largest customers and partners.

Please see http://www.karlperkins.com for more contact information.

Karl Perkins’s Specialties:

Solution Architecture, Pre-Sales, Technical Channel Management, IT Director, IT Manager, Project Management, Vendor Management, Strategy & Planning, Business Planning, M&A, IT Architecture, Network Architecture, Datacenter, Service Provider.

Karl Perkins’s Experience

Solution Manager - Global Partner Solutions

TANDBERG

(Public Company; TAA; Telecommunications industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)
EMEA Solution Architect

TANDBERG

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TAA; Telecommunications industry)

January 2007 — September 2009 (2 years 9 months)
Director of Pre-sales and Delivery

Evident Software

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2006 — November 2006 (4 months)

Evident Software was a small software company with fifty employees, in the US and UK. Evident Software provided solutions that help enterprise IT managers identify and eliminate inefficiencies in their infrastructures using Asset Auditing, Demand Profiling and Service Pricing. Karl’s role required him to be the technical lead for all EMEA opportunities, including ABN AMRO ($5M in product, $2M services). Evident Software wound up in November 2006, after failing to find a buyer or funding.
IT Manager

Blue Group International

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 3 months)

Karl ran the IT team in London for Blue Group International (a mid-sized recruitment company, 180 employees in the group, two offices, four direct reports) after their existing IT manager left to start his own business. Importing a structured sense of management style, combined with his commercial and technical experience, has enabled this company to jump-start its IT strategy. Karl is both hands-on, and hands-off as required.
Global MIS Director

Micromuse Inc.

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; NasdaqNM:MUSE; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2001 — May 2004 (3 years 2 months)

Micromuse is the leading provider of real-time fault management and service assurance software, headquartered in San Francisco with offices surrounding the globe and approximately 650 employees. Karl initially joined Micromuse to trouble-shoot a demonstration lab in New York, and subsequently ran the MIS team globally.
Director, Data Centre Operations/Technical Operations

GlobalKom

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

June 2000 — March 2001 (10 months)

GlobalKom was a start-up service provider company with key partnerships with telecommunications, software, and system integrator vendors. Karl's role required him to develop business planning, fundraising, strategic company direction, technology partners, suppliers, and implementation strategies.
Senior Manager Strategic Planning

Nortel Networks

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NYSE:NT; Telecommunications industry)

March 2000 — June 2000 (4 months)

Karl was responsible for Service Delivery and business planning reviews. All deals contained at least one data centre - typically over 100K sqft, and at least one OSS over $20M.
Pre-Sales Consultant

Morse Group Ltd.

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; MOR.L; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1998 — March 2000 (1 year 8 months)

Karl's position required him to manage the Microsoft consultancy team inside MorseData in the south, and implement complex integrations. He consulted on a wide rage of software technologies from Microsoft, HP, SAP, Oracle, etc. and on hardware from HP, HDS, EMC, etc to companies such as Telenor, Hutchison 3G, Homebase, Sky TV, ABN AMRO, GlaxoSmithKline, etc.
Product Test & Applications Engineer

Brand Communications Ltd

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1998 — July 1998 (7 months)

Brand Communications develop and manufacture a range of leading remote and site-to-site access solutions for all environments including ISDN, PSTN, Fixed lines, and GSM.

Karl Perkins’s Education

Loughborough University

PhD , Distributed Computing , 1994 — 1998

PhD Computing - The Effective Management of Distributed Computation

Activities and Societies:

Karl’s research covered all areas of distributed computing from network design to communication protocols and applications.
Conference Contributions – Refereed Perkins, K.A. and Machin, C.H., ''Chaos on the Internet’’, Second International Symposium on Communications Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing, Boucouvalas, A.C. (ed.), Bournemouth University, CSNDSP 2000, Poole, Dorset, July 2000, pp. 294-299.
Loughborough University

BSc , Computing , 1991 — 1994

BSc (Hons) Computing
Ludlow College, Shropshire

Various 1989 — 1991

Five A-levels and two AS levels

Activities and Societies:

Including A-levels in Computing (A) Physics (B) Maths (C) Further Maths (D) Electronics (B).