Firstly, I love creating memories with my family and dog, Buddy. Previously I enjoyed European motorcycle tours and track days and still own an Aprilia RSV1000. I spend my recreation time SCUBA diving or anything else adventurous. I have participated in Project Shark in the Red Sea, Cave diving in Florida, dived in Mauritius, and returned to the Medes Island Marine Reserve each Summer, plus many more UK sites and wrecks all year round. I have also completed fieldwork for the Nautical Archaeology Society, Seasearch and The Seahorse Trust.

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Paul Chapman is a Senior Power Modernisation Architect for IBM Technology with 25 years of technical and management experience working for IBM & IBM Premier Business Partners. He focuses on providing professional services and consultancy to Enterprise customers. He is a trusted advisor and has built long-standing, valued customer relationships through many years of performing technical presales, running workshops, writing designs, implementing solutions, providing skills transfer and performing problem determination for critical situations.

Before joining IBM, Paul enjoyed designing and implementing many solutions, including Fingerprint & Retina Biometrics for Police, AI systems for Elite Special Forces and the world's largest unified messaging systems for a significant US Telecoms company. Paul was Senior Enterprise Consultant, leading many large projects across the UK, EMEA & North America.

On joining IBM, he spent the first year designing and implementing infrastructure to support the core banking system for the UK's largest building society. Following this, he was honoured to receive an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from IBM for designing and leading the implementation of an SAP solution for a Global Energy company. Paul has authored, and IBM published a case study to showcase this solution.

Paul stepped out of IBM for a year, where he was responsible for the architecture and strategy of Power Enterprise Cloud services for the largest bank in the United States.

At the beginning of 2020, Paul joined a global team to concentrate on the modernisation of Power. He works directly with IBM Development, Offering Management, ISV, Sales and Technical Sales Leaders. Paul leads the technical focus of Power modernisation across EMEA. He supports Customers, Business Partners and IBMers, supporting application modernisation and Hybrid Cloud projects using Open Source, Red Hat, IBM software and ISV software. Paul was an author of the "Red Hat OpenShift V4.X and IBM Cloud Pak on IBM Power Systems Volume 2" Redbook in 2021 and received his second Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA) in 2022. Paul led the .NET drumbeat through 2022 with the subsequent launch of .NET on Power in November. As a direct result of Paul's work, IBM published Public References within a week of the general availability of .NET on Power in November 2022.