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Atlanta Metropolitan Area, GA

SUMMARY

  • Results oriented professional with extensive experience delivering meaningful, measurable outcomes by solving and creating solutions to complex and multi tower business requirements. Successful as an individual contributor or as a leader.
  • As an individual contributor I am a recognized problem solver with repeated success in assigned opportunities and achieving quota.
  • As a leader I have the ability to recruit top performers, tutor, maintain high retention rates and make those around me better.
  • Recognized problem solver with repeated success in turning around at risk engagements.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in contract development as well as financial and contractual risk abatement.
  • Well organized with ability to identify, provide metrics and implement process improvement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Leadership Six Sigma Green Belt Contracts
  • Virtualization Process Improvement Development
  • Security ITIL Foundations Negotiation
  • Challenger Sales Methodology Salesforce.com Advanced skills Project Management
  • Cloud Computing Apple Product Professional IT Outsourcing
  • *aaS Engineer/Architect Management IT Operations
  • Modeling Unified Communications Professional Services
  • Storage Pricing/Financial modeling CISSP (In Process)
  • Management Risk Assessment/Management SW Development
  • Security New Product Introduction (NPI) QA Management
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Pragmatic Marketing VMWare Certified Associate
  • (In process) GE GEnious Methodology (In process)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, GA

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Recruited to support the Southeastern sales team to drive new business and growth within existing footprint.
  • Focusing on End User Computing solutions including managed outsourcing/out - tasking, Service Desk, Remote Monitoring and Management.
  • Assist sales team to identify prospects needs with the managed solutions Pomeroy provides.
  • I was heavily recruited by Pomeroy to join.
  • Unfortunately right after I joined the COVID-19 pandemic hit and I was laid off.
  • In the short time I was at Pomeroy I worked on a total End User Compute outsourcing opportunity at a large national publishing company and was instrumental in bringing it to the final decision stage for Pomeroy.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Regional Director

Responsibilities:

  • Provide pre-sales support to a nine state region. Leading a team of Solution Architects to assist sales resources & clients define, price and close Managed and Project based Service engagements.
  • This team gathers requirements for new opportunities, evaluating requirements can be met with existing processes and systems, and identifying operational gaps that may exist for delivering new opportunities.
  • Designed and opened a brick & mortar location in Atlanta for Zones.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Offer Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Gather requirements for new service opportunities.
  • Provide leadership interfacing with internal sales and external customers.
  • Develop PowerPoint presentations to deliver to customers.
  • Coordinate and host customer visits.
  • Assess the competitive landscape
  • Identify costs for all new opportunities.
  • Identify gaps in the ability to deliver new opportunities.
  • Develop custom models for new opportunities as needed.
  • Maintain cost models for all service components.
  • Review internal cost and productivity benchmarks periodically.
  • Deliver presentations & workouts.
  • Engage outside vendors as needed to provide capability not in house.
  • Produce monthly reports on opportunities solutioned & implemented.
  • Participate as a staff member of the Services leadership team.
  • Create and negotiate SOWs

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Vice President, Solution Services

Responsibilities:

  • Lead a team of 15 Solution Directors with the following responsibilities and objectives:
  • Collaborate with staff to understand specific system requirements of clients.
  • Develop engagement costs, design concepts, and/or design changes.
  • Collaborate with engineers to select appropriate design solutions and ensure client needs are addressed.
  • Lead contract negotiations
  • Ensure successful hand off to the delivery teams.
  • Drive additional services and renewals of engagements
  • Create proposal responses

Confidential, Fairfield, CT

Director

Responsibilities:

  • Joined this GE company as they entered the marketplace to resell personal computers, servers, related software, accessories and services.
  • Brought in as an individual contributor and promoted to a Director leading a team of solution development resources.
  • This company was divested and sold to CompuCom Systems, Confidential .
  • Member of the transition team integrating with CompuCom.
  • Participate with sales team to understand requirements of clients.
  • Provide advice on costs, design concepts, and/or design changes.
  • Develop pricing for the engagement
  • Create and negotiate client contracts
  • Ensure successful hand off to the delivery teams.
  • Identified incremental service opportunities and renewals of engagements
  • Create proposal responses

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Business Development Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Develop marketing plans, service offerings and for the sales teams.
  • Confer with customers and engineers to assess equipment needs and to determine system requirements.
  • Researched and identified potential customers for products or services.
  • Kept informed on industry news and trends, products, services, competitors, relevant information about legacy, existing, and emerging technologies, and the latest product-line developments.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Business Development Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Develop marketing plan, service offerings and for the sales teams
  • Confer with customers and engineers to assess equipment needs and to determine system requirements.
  • Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements, to promote the sale of products, and to provide sales support.
  • Develop, present, or respond to proposals for specific customer requirements, including request for proposal responses and industry-specific solutions.
  • Prepare and deliver technical presentations that explain products or services to customers and prospective customers.

Confidential, Omaha, NE

District Business Development Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Plan and modify product configurations to meet customer needs.
  • Confer with customers and engineers to assess equipment needs and to determine system requirements.
  • Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements, to promote the sale of UNIX based computers products, and related professional service offerings.
  • Prepare and deliver technical presentations that explain products or services to customers and prospective customers.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Systems Engineering District Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Support sales team in promoting and selling Pyramid Technology computers.
  • Plan and modify product configurations to meet customer needs.
  • Confer with customers and engineers to assess equipment needs and to determine system requirements.
  • Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements, to promote the sale of company products and to provide sales support.
  • Develop, present, or respond to proposals for specific customer requirements, including request for proposal responses and industry-specific solutions.
  • Prepare and deliver technical presentations that explain products or services to customers and prospective customers

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Regional Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Support sales team in promoting and selling Confidential .
  • Plan and modify product configurations to meet customer needs.
  • Confer with customers and engineers to assess equipment needs and to determine system requirements.
  • Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements, to promote the sale of company products and to provide sales support.
  • Develop, present, or respond to proposals for specific customer requirements, including request for proposal responses and industry-specific solutions.
  • Prepare and deliver technical presentations that explain products or services to customers and prospective customers

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Develop, test, maintain, and monitor computer programs and systems, including coordinating the installation of computer programs and systems.
  • Develop, document and revise system design procedures, test procedures, and quality standards.
  • Supervise computer programmers and serve as project leader.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Developed applications and a common format to allow transfer of claim information between insurance companies diverse computer systems.
  • Implemented the SNA and BSC protocols to be directly transmitted via satellite from a Tandem computer

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Developed wire transfer systems using Tandem fault tolerant computers
  • Deployed at Crocker National, Confidential and Confidential
  • Modified the Tandem File Utility Program (FUP) source code to add functionality and run more efficiently.
  • Code was given to Tandem for international distribution.
  • Developed code to communicate to FedWire and SWIFT

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Member of a team that ported the UNIX Operating System to General Automation computers
  • Worked to develop an Editorial Newspaper system for the Toronto Star newspaper. Key aspects of the system were:
  • Fault tolerant with automatic cut over
  • Capture feeds from major news wires
  • Producing page layouts and direct connection to printing press.

Confidential, Murry Hills, NJ

Responsibilities:

  • Member of a team that developed the UNIX Operating System

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