Bob Nevins

About Bob Nevins

I\'m an Open Group Master Certified IT Specialist with extensive expertise in Networking and Storage solution design. My professional passion is to simplify complex technology for clients and help them apply it to increase business value. For most of my career I\'ve enjoyed roles as a speaker and consultant in various Executive Briefing Centers. I\'ve also had the opportunity to act as consultant, software designer and network architect as well as teacher and technical specialist. I work with clients ranging from small nonprofits to major international corporations. I help customers and sales teams analyze client business initiatives and goals and create appropriate technical solutions. I have extensive expertise in effective communication through years of public speaking, technical writing, consultative listening, and collaborative team leadership. Expertise: Consultative Selling | Network & IT Solution Design | Technical Team Leadership | Teaching & Training | Public Speaking | Authoring Technical Books, Presentations, and White Papers | Creating Technical Marketing Material Technical specialties: Networking: Ethernet, Fibre Channel, FCoE, TCP/IP Storage: SAN, Disk, Flash, Tape, Software-Defined Storage Converged Systems: IBM / Lenovo PureFlex, IBM / Cisco VersaStack Spare time specialties: Martial Arts: Aikido, Tae Kwon Do Dancing: Carolina Shag email: n•••••@alumni.duke.edu

Experience

1. Senior Consultant, Solutions Marketing

   Lenovo

   May 2020 — Present

   As a Senior Consultant on this newly-created team in Lenovo Marketing, I work as a marketing liaison with our worldwide brand teams, creating and delivering customer-focused solutions, messaging, and integrated marketing campaigns for our storage, data management and AI portfolios as well as our product security program. I also continue in my role as a liaison to our Executive Briefing Center team, as an advisor on program design and as a speaker for client and partner engagements.

Education

• Duke University

  Bachelor of Science

• The George Washington University

  Masters Certificate

• Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business

  Master of Business Administration