Barcelona, Spain · open to remote or hybrid across EMEA

Senior Solution Architect

Senior pre-sales architect for HPE - hundreds of enterprise deals/year, 230M CHF annual target (120% achieved in 2025) across Switzerland, EMEA and global accounts.

See the resume Get in touch

Jean-Charles Lantheaume

Senior Solution Architect

Senior pre-sales architect for HPE - hundreds of enterprise deals/year, 230M CHF annual target (120% achieved in 2025) across Switzerland, EMEA and global accounts.

Summary

Trusted-advisor pre-sales architect, Barcelona-based - 10 years at HPE closing enterprise deals across Switzerland, EMEA and global accounts. I turn complex infrastructure needs into clear, signable solutions, co-own deals with Sales, run technical enablement for Inside Sales and channel partners, and bring three languages with 20+ years in IT and 15+ years in international sales.

  • End-to-end solution design and deal shaping on hundreds of HPE compute and virtualization deals per year across Switzerland, EMEA and global accounts.
  • Trusted-advisor posture with hundreds of partners and enterprise customers across Switzerland, EMEA and global accounts.
  • Technical enablement of Inside Sales and channel partners at the HPE Barcelona Sales Center — dozens of new hires ramped up since 2016.

Professional experience

Inside Sales Solutions Architect

Mar 2016 - present

Hewlett Packard Enterprise · Barcelona, Spain

2 years on the French SMB market, then 8+ years on Enterprise & Global Accounts for the Swiss market, EMEA and worldwide.

  • Qualify, shape and close hundreds of enterprise deals per year alongside Sales — from discovery to contract: solution choice, sizing and competitive positioning. 230M CHF annual target on the Swiss market, 120% achieved in 2025.
  • Deliver customer presentations, demos and trusted-advisor briefings on HPE infrastructure, software and digital services — to hundreds of partners and enterprise customers across Switzerland, EMEA and global accounts.
  • Built and run the technical enablement program at the Barcelona Sales Center — dozens of Sales hires onboarded, 1:1 technical deep-dives, on-demand workshops and regular news flashes.
  • Technical enablement of hundreds of channel partners and enterprise customers — driving solution depth on HPE compute, virtualization and GreenLake.
  • Co-design solutions on the largest Swiss-based global accounts — partnering with regional pre-sales and the HPE pre-sales community across EMEA and worldwide.

Infrastructure Operations Engineer (L2)

2014 - 2016

T-Systems · Barcelona, Spain

Support for large French and German enterprises.

  • Operating systems, LDAP and VoIP administration.
  • Active Directory and Avaya administration.
  • IBM Mainframe administration for German automotive customers.

Co-founder & Technical Lead

2014 - 2015

AM'Com · Marseille, France

Websites for catering businesses.

  • Client acquisition in catering businesses, proposition and creation of dedicated websites.

Technical Account Manager

2012 - 2014

Riviera-Networks · Aix-en-Provence, France

Expert reseller in networks, systems and security — South of France.

  • Technical account management on mid-market and enterprise segments — multi-vendor solution proposals across networks, security and datacenter (Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent and partners).
  • Coverage of LAN/MAN/WAN/WLAN, security, VoIP, datacenter and telecom infrastructure.

Cycling expedition — Asia & Europe

2011 - 2012

Sabbatical Leave · 7 countries · 8,500 km

  • One-year cycling expedition with my partner across Asia and Europe — a deliberate break between roles to reset, learn and grow.

Channel Account Manager

2007 - 2011

Cris Réseaux · Lyon, France

IT distributor — security and network software portfolio.

  • Grew assigned reseller accounts from ~100K€ to 800K€ in annual revenue across four years — 8x growth.
  • Channel sales of Netasq/Stormshield firewalls, Trend Micro antivirus and Vade antispam to resellers and integrators across France.
  • Reseller acquisition and growth in indirect sales — end-to-end solution proposals across security and networking, software and hardware.

Network and System Administrator

2001 - 2003 & 2005 - 2007

IT service companies (SSII) · Lyon, France

Two successive positions delivering infrastructure on customer sites for French enterprises.

  • On-site network and system administration for French enterprises.
  • Technologies: Windows Server, Linux, security, networking, ERP.

Associate Director & Co-Founder

2003 - 2005

Resolving · Lyon, France

Co-founded a collaborative platform for the real estate and construction sector.

  • Co-founded and directed Resolving — building a collaborative platform for real estate agencies and construction businesses.
  • Combined platform development with network/system administration services for real estate clients.

Education

2003
Bachelor's Degree, Network and Telecom
CNAM · Lyon, France
2001
Degree in Network and System Administration
CRESPA · Lyon, France
1998
Degree in Commerce
St JB de la Salle · Lyon, France
Built by hand - print-ready A4, two pages.

Send a message

Recruiters, partners, peers: the form below goes straight to my inbox.