Josef Hans Lara

Personal: Neighbor of Maple Ridge, BC, probably the best place on earth, in the Greater Vancouver area. I am passionate about creating a great self-sustainable community, safe and healthy for our families.

I am politically conscious of enhancing democratic participation through new technologies and Social media.

Professional: With years of experience in the information technology industry, starting my career in Europe leading the marketing and sales efforts on hardware and software channel and solution sales, I continued to build my career into North America becoming the lead for Cloud Computing and a builder of Large Account Resellers.

Developing award winning IT services and helping multiple industry and public sector organizations across Canada and the USA to achieve compliance and embrace models to adopt new technologies. I have helped in developing a unique and customize approach for clients to resolve their transition to the Cloud, Business Intelligence as well as IT compliance models.

A strong desire to help organizations in understanding the complexities of new Cloud technologies and other models inspired me to become a published author on Microsoft licensing with my first publication, 'The Licensing Guru'. Also as part of my efforts to innovate the IT industry I have been invited to serve on Ingram Micro’s North America Services Advisory Council; as well as board member of the SRCTech Group, Fraser Valley, BC.

Also an avid blogger and videocast educator, I pride myself on sharing my experiences and knowledge in order to provide the best options available, ensuring a fuller understanding of the voluminous possibilities in an ever changing sector of the I.T. industry.

Skillfully combining my past experiences, knowledge and dedication towards creating an effective ongoing understanding the intricacies of Cloud and Software Asset Management solutions is my goal as I further my career in this field.