Steve Harris

Current

• Senior Director of Sales, Data Centre Solutions at Novell

Past

• Director, Microsoft Alliance, EMEA at Novell
• Senior Director of Sales, Data Centre & Open Source Solutions at Novell
• Senior Regional Director at Wind River Systems UK Ltd

• Account Manager at Real Time Products Ltd
• Field Engineer at NCR

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Education

• Aston University

Recommended

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Connections

232 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Steve Harris’s Summary

Steve Harris’s Specialties:

Software Sales and Marketing. Executive Management. Acquisitions. Contract Negotiations and Deal Closure. Sales Management and Motivation. Corporate spokesperson. Business process optimisation. Fiscal responsbility. Quarterly driven.

Steve Harris’s Experience

• Senior Director of Sales, Data Centre Solutions

  Novell

  (Public Company; NOVL; Computer Software industry)

  December 2009 — Present (4 months)

  I am responsible for Novell's Data Centre practice in the UK & Ireland. We are the emerging leaders in the Intelligent Workload Management category helping our customers optimise, secure and meet compliance requirements as they virtualise workloads and move them between physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures.

• Director, Microsoft Alliance, EMEA

  Novell

  (Public Company; NOVL; Computer Software industry)

  May 2009 — December 2009 (8 months)

  Responsible in EMEA for Novell's most strategic partnership with Microsoft. Ensure that we maximise the leverage of SUSE as the most interoperable Linux distribution in the industry and gain support from Enterprise customers across Europe.

• Senior Director of Sales, Data Centre & Open Source Solutions

  Novell

  (Public Company; NOVL; Computer Software industry)

  April 2007 — April 2009 (2 years 1 month)

• Senior Regional Director

  Wind River Systems UK Ltd

  (Public Company; WIND; Computer Software industry)

  May 1991 — April 2007 (16 years )

• Account Manager

  Real Time Products Ltd

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

  May 2000 — May 2001 (1 year 1 month)

• Field Engineer

  NCR

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 1988 — May 1990 (1 year 8 months)

Steve Harris’s Education

• Aston University

  BSc. , Computer Science , September 1984 — June 1988

  1st Class Degree & Chancellors prize