Discipline in program managing oneself and others to deliver on objectives• Openness, transparency, and honesty with oneself and others as it pertains to intentions, objectives, plans, and execution• A habit of facing and overcoming difficult technical and business challenges, or failing while putting forth one's best effort, leaning, and forging on• An innate desire to deeply learn new technologies and customer workloads with a strong understanding of the problems being solved and the business value derived• A bias for action and results, viewing failure as necessary and educational• Taking ownership of one's tasks, contributing actively to projects and objectives, and understanding the impact of one's performance on the team's success• A bias for exercising the principle of charity, interpreting the words and actions of others in the best, strongest, and most rational way possible. The mission of the IBM Storage Solutions Team is to engage with strategic ISV and OEM partners that can advance the IBM Storage strategy, expand the marketability of the portfolio, create short- and long-term alignment across solution roadmaps, and drive collaborative go-to-market initiatives.