Recently, I accepted a position as the Converged Infrastructure Discipline Lead for the Americas within EMC. I have been so fortunate to work at such a great company with such great individuals. The last 5+ years at VCE has been my favorite time within my career. Last week was my first week and I am still getting up to speed along with developing the framework. I am very much looking forward to the role and all that it entails. Below, I have included a few details in reference to the Converged Infrastructure Discipline Lead for the Americas role.

Technical SME for discipline members both internal and external to EMC proactively assessing methods and procedures
Responsible for the identification of skill gaps and the development of a readiness plan for discipline members based on new or existing products and services
Collaboration with delivery team members in their discipline to develop and refine methodologies, standards and best practices
Identification of key certifications by role for critical skills within the discipline
Foster communities within discipline to promote sharing across members of best practices, standards and methodologies
Ongoing regular communication and discipline leadership to members
Collaborate and share with peer discipline leaders around the globe to assist with consistency across EMC Professional Services
Partner with the field to help support key customers, or early adopters of new offerings
Collaborate with the P&SA team, EMC business units and the portfolio team to ensure the awareness of new product and service introduction
Provide input and feedback on behalf of the delivery teams to the portfolio and business units around product and service offering development
Partner with the geographic leadership to understand reoccurring delivery quality challenges and develop programs to proactively improve delivery quality within their discipline
Proactively evaluate the resource capacity and skills pyramid within the discipline and build strategies for further optimization in service delivery
Identify and qualify key partners who can assist with service delivery based on in house skill gaps
Identify key areas of investment and growth for the discipline based on inputs from the business units, portfolio, delivery, sales and market trends
Facilitate the appropriate training and readiness through boot camps, pilots, training and community calls events
Partner with Human Resources to define meaningful career paths and growth opportunities by role within the discipline
Identify, interview, and qualify partners aligned with discipline and records within the Partner Qualification Catalogue
Support partner readiness through collaboration with partner management team and sharing of delivery artifacts, training, tools and best practices