HP Connects People with Technology Services Experts to Raise Funds for CARE

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--HP today unveiled a new program that unites technology users with HP Technology Services Experts while raising donations for CARE, a leading humanitarian organization that fights global poverty.

“Clients are seeking guidance and insight into the technology decision-making process – someone who’s there to listen, roll up their sleeves, and translate client needs into better outcomes”

• As part of the HP Technology Services Experts sweepstakes, HP will donate $10 to CARE every time a registered visitor to the sweepstakes site casts a vote for his or her favorite Technology Services Expert.
• Visitors are welcome to vote up to seven times a day.
• For more information and to enter your vote, go to: http://www.hp.com/go/TSvote.

Making technology services personal

This effort is part of a new HP Technology Services program designed to put the “humanity” back into services. The program showcases the expertise and know-how of the HP team – from engineers to service professionals – so clients can spend less time on problems and more time on moving their business forward.

Meet HP Technology Services Experts

HP offers the right people to help clients translate their needs into better outcomes. Visit http://www.hp.com/go/TSvote to connect with technology experts:

• Kfir Godrich aims to bring tomorrow’s sustainable strategies to mission-critical infrastructure today. In addition to plotting the technology roadmap for Technology Services, Godrich creates high-efficiency data centers and acts as a messenger of the sustainable IT concept worldwide. His goal is to help clients reduce energy costs and their carbon footprint – all while boosting power stability and data security.
• Lee Kedrie leads Cloud Consulting Services and helps clients understand the strategy and business processes needed to adopt technologies – the kind that drive top-line revenues and bottom-line profits. His job is to keep clients ahead of the technology curve and their business goals by helping plan their cloud computing infrastructure.

• Bill Kosik heads up HP Energy & Resource Efficiency Services and leads research, development and implementation of energy-efficient and environmentally responsible design strategies for data centers. He helps clients improve resource management, reduce operating costs and redirect investment to new initiatives.
• Donald Livengood specializes in Client Infrastructure Services as a Technology Strategist to help clients transform their infrastructures and get the most out of them. That means fully utilizing existing technology, creating results that fit a business’s needs, and giving employees ways to do their jobs more productively. Livengood helps determine desired results and develop a smart plan for getting there.
• Patrick Lownds has the ability to orchestrate the elements of a client’s IT environment until both software and hardware sing. As an Information Solution Architect, he helps converge resources around services instead of products so clients can be more efficient, nimble and cost-effective. Lownds and team have quantitative and qualitative tools to match functionality and cost of ownership to objectives so clients receive an architecture that meets their technology and business goals.
• Bradley Mearns enjoys turning complex problems into simple explanations and delivering thorough executions that turn those problems into business advantages. As a Storage Infrastructure Consultant, his goal is to help organizations find the storage infrastructure approach that fits their individual needs. Whether that involves implementing tiered storage to reduce unnecessary spending, enabling a dynamic environment that easily manages data set alignment, or examining technical firmware issues, through Storage Infrastructure Optimization Services he helps clients move quickly and efficiently.
• Chris and Greg Tinker are HP Master Technologists in Storage Infrastructure Optimization Services. They’re driven to understand the entire IT environment and lead their team members in doing the same. To that end, the Tinkers train HP teams on a variety of products, operating platforms, networking protocols, database applications and more, with the common goal of being able to support client needs.

Executive quote

“Clients are seeking guidance and insight into the technology decision-making process – someone who’s there to listen, roll up their sleeves, and translate client needs into better outcomes,” said Michelle Weiss, vice president, Marketing, Technology Services, HP. “HP Technology Services is adding a human touch to technology by connecting clients with HP services experts to address their most challenging problems. We are taking it a step further by partnering with CARE to turn our local action into global impact. The awareness generated through the sweepstakes will help to advance CARE’s humanitarian work to empower women and girls as change agents in the fighting poverty around the world.”

“HP has been an important and long-term partner for CARE, contributing both technology expertise and generous support to advance our mission,” said Radha Muthiah, vice president, Strategic Partnerships and Alliances, CARE. “We continue to applaud their commitment to connecting people to CARE’s work in innovative and meaningful ways.”

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About CARE

Founded in 1945, CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE places special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Working in 72 countries around the world, women are at the heart of CARE’s community-based efforts to improve education, health and economic opportunity. To learn more, visit www.care.org.

About HP

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

(1) Sweepstakes open to U.S. residents only; no purchase necessary to enter. All funds donated by HP. See official ¹sweepstakes rules for more details.

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