Giuliano Anselmi
Primary email contact: g.anselmi@makram.it
Secondary email contact: giuliano@giulianoanselmi.it
Personal Information
I was born March 21st 1972 in Rome, Italy.My primary email contact is: g.anselmi@makram.it My secondary email contact is: giuliano@giulianoanselmi.it
Education & Certifications
Qualifications Non graduated Engineer - Telecommunication in Systems ITIS Giovanni XXIII, Rome, Italy
July 1990 – Final score 54/60
Languages English – Fluent
Italian – Mother language
Certifications IBM Certified System Administrator - AIX 7 (May 12) IBM IBM Certified Systems Expert - High Availability for AIX Technical Support and Administration (Oct 09)
IBM Certified Specialist - System p Administration (Sept 09) IBM Certified Systems Expert - Enterprise Technical Support for AIX and Linux (Sept 09)
IBM IT Specialist (April 2009)
IBM Certified Specialist – pSeries Sales V2 (2004) IBM Certified User – AIX V4 (2001)
Professional experience
Profile I am currently working in Italy for Makram Srl, a company that offers IT Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery adding value services that focus on IBM Power Systems and IBM Storage platforms. My acquired skills allow to coveral several roles that goes from architect and discuss solutions to deliver and implement extreme solutions. I worked for IBM being devoted to RS/6000 and POWER systems since 18 years. I have been a Systems Product
Engineer for seven years, supporting various IBM organizations, Business Partners, and Technical Support Organizations. Later, I joined the IBM Technical Sales Support group in 2004 and have been certified as an IT Specialist in 2009 after I covered the role of IBM System Architect within the IBM Systems and Technology Group (STG), expanding my skill toward cross brand hardware and solutions. As Systems Architect in IBM General Business territories, I supported STG sales force and IBM Business Partners in Center and South Italy.
From 1996 to 2003, I used to be an IBM pSeries Systems Product Engineer, supporting Sales Organization in EMEA, Business Partners, Technical Support Organizations, and IBM Dublin Manufacturing.
Before 2004, I did several business trips in Austin, TX, to support US IBM Product Engineers and Developers before the General Availability of POWER processor-based systems. As Product Engineer, also, I went several time to Dublin ESG campus to support Manufacturing and Process Engineers during the peak of production.
I have in my score several physical on-site assistances in Europe and Middle East to close Critical Situations, playing the role of the brand resolution leader.
I am an active part of technical communities since I completed several residencies in Austin, TX, to release dozen of IBM Redbook publications related to POWER4, POWER5, POWER5+, POWER6 and POWER7 processor-based systems and technology, collaborating with international teams and developers. In addition to that, I have been a speaker in international technical conferences with IBMer and Clients (see also “Other relevant information” section).
Key skills IBM Hardware platforms:
IBM RISC/6000, IBM RS/6000, IBM pSeries, IBM eServer pSeries, IBM System p5, IBM eServer xSeries, IBM POWER Systems.
IBM AIX 5L, AIX 6, AIX 7
Master knowledge, speaker or teacher in AIX workshops and AIX education events since 2004.
IBM Virtual I/O Server
Master knowledge, speaker or teacher in several workshops and education events.
IBM PowerHA
on IBM PowerHA cluster software.
IBM GPFS
Advanced knowledge, implemented several solution based on IBM GPFS, specially to build cluster based on Oracle RAC.
Linux on POWER
Knowledge of solutions and speaker in some IBM top gun meetings
SAP
Hardware sizing to implement or migrate SAP Landscapes to IBM POWER System hardware platform
HTML
Advanced building of Web pages based on html code
Lotus Domino Server and Notes Database
Installation and setup of Domino Server, administrator and designer of Lotus Notes Databases
Career history 10/2009 – to date Makram Srl, Italy
IT Systems Architect and
Senior System Engineer (including Teacher and presale specialist) Designed and implemented a complex virtual server farm for an important Italian Customer
01/2008 – 09/2009 IBM, Italy
STG Systems Architect GB Center/South Italy Certified IT Specialist
Relevant winbacks in competitive customers as STG Systems
Architect with references available to public
10/2007 – 01/2008 IBM, Italy FTSS
System p Technical Sales Support IBM System and Technology Group SMB System Architect
01/2004 – 10/2007 IBM, Italy
pSeries Technical Sales Support IBM System and Technology Group IT Specialist
06/1996 – 01/2004 IBM, Italy
pSeries EMEA Product Engineer supporting Web Server Sales
Organization in EMEA, IBM Sales, Business Partners, Technical Support Organizations, and IBM Dublin eServer Manufacturing
02/1992 – 06/1996 IBM, Italy
From assembly operator to quality engineer
Through all the steps of IBM Santa Palomba Manufacturing plant process
Assignement history 02/2000 – To date Total > 100 months
IBM Residencies
Project Description:
Short periods of assignment (from 4 to 7 weeks) in Austin, TX IBM Development Plant from 2000 to 2003 before new product general avaialbility
Contribution:
Supported LAB Developers (diagnostics validation and Built In Self Test validation)
Other relevant information
Publications Giuliano Anselmi, Bruno Blanchard, Younghoon Cho, Christopher Hales, Marcos Quezada:
IBM Power 750 and 755 Technical Overview and Introduction;
IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction, in: IBM Redbook publications, IBM, 2010 Giuliano Anselmi, YoungHoon Cho, Gregor Linzmeier, Marcos Quezada, John T Schmidt, Guido Somers:
IBM Power Systems 520 (550, and 570) Technical Overview and Introduction, in: IBM Redbook pubblications, IBM, 2008 Giuliano Anselmi, Laurent Agarini:
Integrated Virtual Ethernet Adapter Technical Overview and Introduction, in: IBM REDBOOK pubblication, IBM, 2007 Giuliano Anselmi, Gregor Linzmeier, Ondrej Plachy,
SahngShin Kim, Bernard Filhol:
IBM System p5 Quad-Core Module Based On POWER5+ Technology Technical Overview and Introduction, in: IBM REDBOOK pubblication, IBM, 2006
Giuliano Anselmi, Gregor Linzmeier, Ondrej Plachy, SahngShin Kim, Bernard Filhol:
Introduction, in: IBM REDBOOK pubblication, IBM, 2006 Giuliano Anselmi, Gregor Linzmeier, Ondrej Plachy, SahngShin Kim, Bernard Filhol:
IBM System p5 520 and 520Q Technical Overview and Introduction, in: IBM REDBOOK pubblication, IBM, 2006 Giuliano Anselmi, Gregor Linzmeier, Ondrej Plachy, SahngShin Kim, Bernard Filhol:
IBM System p5 550 and 550Q Technical Overview and Introduction, in: IBM REDBOOK pubblication, IBM, 2006 Giuliano Anselmi, Gregor Linzmeier, Ondrej Plachy, SahngShin Kim, Bernard Filhol:
IBM System p5 560Q Technical Overview and Introduction, in: IBM REDBOOK pubblication, IBM, 2006
Giuliano Anselmi, Gregor Linzmeier, Wolfgang Seiwald, Philippe Vandamme: IBM eServer p5 570 Technical Overview and Introduction , in: IBM REDBOOK pubblication, IBM, 2004
Giuliano Anselmi, Gregor Linzmeier, Ondrej Plachy, SahngShin Kim, Bernard Filhol:
IBM eServer p5 550 Technical Overview and Introduction , in: IBM REDBOOK pubblication, IBM, 2004
Giuliano Anselmi, Gregor Linzmeier, Ondrej Plachy, SahngShin Kim, Bernard Filhol:
IBM eServer p5 520 Technical Overview and Introduction , in: IBM REDBOOK pubblication, IBM, 2004
Giuliano Anselmi, Gregor Linzmeier:
IBM eServer pSeries 615 Model 6C3 and 6E3 Technical Overview and Introduction, in: IBM REDBOOK pubblication - REDP-0160, IBM, 2003
Giuliano Anselmi, Stephen Lutz, Marcelo Okano:
IBM eServer pSeries 650 Model 6M2 Technical Overview and Introduction, in: IBM REDBOOK pubblication, IBM, 2002 Giuliano Anselmi, Derrick Daines, Stephen Lutz, Marcelo Okano, Wolfgang Seiwald, Dave Williams:
IBM eServer pSeries 630 Model 6C4 and 6E4 Technical Overview and Introduction, in: IBM REDBOOK pubblication - REDP-0195-00, IBM, 2002
Conferences Speaker in several international conferences, including education events planned to improve IBMer, BP, and Customer knowledge about IBM POWER Systems products and features. Most relevant of these conferences were the “System p, AIX & Linux Technical University”, Amsterdam 2007, where I held two sessions, and the “Unix in Focus –
STG Technical University” in Paris 2007.
Mentoring Mentor for IBM Dublin Manufacturing Engineers (from 2001 to 2004), helping and guiding Dublin Engineers and Test operator to perform their job roles
Mentor in Montpellier IBM Plant to help selected
Montpellier Product Engineers to acquire the necessary skill to support IBM Technical community as 3rd level of
hardware support for POWER processor-based servers Other job-related
activity
Administrator and designer of Department Lotus Notes Databases
Technical Focus for IBM DEMO Servers (Preparation, Shipping, Tracking, Feedback collection, Opportunity seeking) and Proof of Concepts in IBM Rome Technical Center from 2004 to 2007
EMEA POWER6 Champions Team member since 2007 Originator of a technical forum in Italian language to support Italian technical communities to focus on IBM POWER processor-based technology and supported OS's as AIX and Linux on POWER
Customer Reference document for Finaf S.p.A. has been nominated and included in the IBM Solution Scenario Profile Database (SSPD)
Recommendations for Giuliano
“I worked together with Giuliano in many customer situation. He was always valuable and helpful with great leadership competencies and skills.”
Volker Haug, Certified Consulting IT Specialist, IBM Germany “Giuliano is a person very reliable with a very deep technical knowledge in the area of Power Systems, Intel and Storage. His personal characteristics of relationship and his
availability, make him a point of reference for the people who work with him.”
Michele Blandamura, Power i - IT Specialist, IBM Italy spa worked directly with Giuliano at IBM Italia S.p.A.
“Giuliano has a deep knowledge of Server and Storage Architecture with a strong orientation in business and customer satisfaction. Good attitude in selling and teamwork”
Daniele Aprile, Account Manager, IBM Firenze worked with Giuliano at IBM Italia S.p.A.
“Giuliano was able to combine an excellent knowledge of IBM products, with a good understanding of client needs. From a personal standpoint an excellent person to work
with.”
Fabrizio Renzi, Director of System & Technology Group Central Eastern Europe Middle East & Africa, IBM managed Giuliano indirectly at IBM Italia S.p.A.
“Giuliano has the big picture approach that makes business happen.”
Scott Vetter, Executive Project Manager, IBM worked directly with Giuliano at IBM
“Giuliano has deep understanding, knowledge and experience of IBM Power and AIX technology as nobody else. I tested his qualities in several deals with IBM and non IBM customers.”
Vittorio Carbone, SSR, IBM Italia SPA worked with Giuliano at IBM Italia SpA
"I can say without hesitation that Giuliano has been the best of the many employees that I have had in my career as a manager in IBM. So easy for him to learn everything, his contagious enthusiasm and his spirit of initiative was always bringing to achieve excellent results both from the
professional point of view and from the point of view of interpersonal relationships. I wish Giuliano to reach the success it deserves in his still long way to work .. " Giancarlo Basta, Technical Support manager, IBM managed Giuliano at IBM