Company Overview:Leader in low-tech living on 60 acre farm with horses, lakes, wild animals, pastures on rolling hills with poor internet service. High tech is standing on one foot facing north trying to get a few bars on phone Benefit Package:Beautiful view of front 40 acres where deer graze daily. Healthy life style - Low Blood Pressure - Manual Labor - Sweat Equity - Fresh Air - OutdoorsImmediate Objective: "Radical Sabbatical" focused on family, friends & farm while exploring next business venture. Probably Hay Side Biz On Farm Current focus:* Searching for horse barn boarders while investigating hay business - succeeded . * Mending, painting fences, grading roads & prepping farm equipment for hay fields.* Preparing garden for heirloom tomatoes, pickling cucumbers, peppers, silver queen corn. * Manicuring pastures and trails in woods with farm worker Johnny Deere. * Got new brown lab retriever mix who wandered up to farm - Wonderboy News Flash: Future County Fair Blue Ribbon Champion - Grandgoat "Knox Phillips" born 4.20 in NashvegasFree Advice:Spend time in the garden - Get your hands dirty! Take a break - Focus on what's important.

I was heavily recruited & hired by Teradata as head of the FedEx account team having worked for and with FedEx for the majority of my business career.The challenge was to help move Teradata to the next level as the company was in the middle of a major publicized transformation. Also to help grow the business inside FedEx.To this end I achieved the following based on $5M quota:- Year One - 60% attainment (based on starting mid year end of May - Excellent)- Year Two - 278% attainment (largest deal in account history - Superb)- Year Two - Largest Professional Services Deal It was a great experience working with FedEx Team - Super Folks at FedEx!After objectives achieved fortunately I was able to pay off Wonderhorse Farms and am "Debt Free". Now taking time off and reassumed position as CIEIO of Wonderhorse Farms, specializing in MoT (Manure of Things) while I continue to explore life on the farm and prepare my garden with heirloom tomatoes grown from seedlings about to plant end of April. Horses doing well also!Life is good - no complaints - have reconnected with my First Love & HS Sweetheart and all 3 daughters and families are doing great! Teradata empowers companies to achieve high impact business outcomes through "analytics at scale".www.teradata.com

Heavily recruited to SFO based IoT start-up by VP Sales. We aligned very well. Unfortunately he left a few months later. The one year game plan we agreed to left when he did.....and so did I.IoT is at the center of everything about to happen in the world today and this experience was outstanding. If you are not on the IoT band wagon you will be left behind.., period. I would highly suggest getting your hands around the Internet of Things as quickly as possible!Forge Rock is a good young company - all the best to them as they grow up!

Key Account Sales for Top 20 Accounts in Tennessee with emphasis on FedEx, Hilton and other majors. Managed secondary accounts including Partner Organizations and Oracle Direct Sales team. Consistently over achieved quota goals. Won several awards. i.e., best territory improvement in region Heavily recruited at critical time when Oracle acquired SUN Microsystems in need of executive rep to Manage Major Accounts and FedEx during major transition. First year - 400% of quota - Top 2% of Reps - ClubGood Company, Supportive Direct Managers and Super Team of Engineers and Inside Sales Reps. Very rewarding to see our territory grow and succeed as a team and individually!Large Organization to navigate - Exec support always there for Key Accounts!

Enterprise Account Manager for Fortune 500 companies in Memphis (FedEx, International Paper, AutoZone, Hilton and ALSAC/St. Jude, etc.). Coordinated development of key account plans/proposals; lead effort to present plans/proposals to executives. Served as CEO over extensive account team. Team leaderNetApp ranked as one of Top 10 Companies to work for in US for several years at that time. A very employee focused firm. Great team of engineers and sales staff. Excellent Executive Management provided outstanding support for Key Accounts. Great Folks!Achievements:* Achieved most significant “U.S. Win” for FY 10 at NetApp.....FedEx. * Recognized as having "Best Account Plan" in all WW Sales * Consistently over achieved goals and objectives* High degree of Character and Integrity* Excellent Team player working on Super Teams!

Responsible for Management of Extensive Account teams for FedEx, IP and Hilton Accounts. Eventually promoted to Global Account Director.Successfully co-managed year long negotiation resulting in new "4 year ELA" for largest customer.Initially took over $8M book of declining business and grew it to $12M annually Worked with tremendous direct and virtual team of engineers and consultants - over 65 on Key account team. True team effort to grow accounts by over 50% when I managed group. Excellent Executive Support and Great Team Wins!

Strategic Internet Consulting Firm with responsiblity over FedEx, IP, St Jude, Hilton and AutoZone Account Teams. Based on success, eventually promoted to Global Client Partner Directly managed sales reps. Indirectly managed engineers and design group ensuring successful delivery of 33 internet, design and eLearning related projects over a 4 year period.Ultimately accountable for bottom line success of all key accounts in Memphis during the "wild and fast paced .com revolution" Numerous Awards & Recognitions - including first "Red Bat Award by Bert Ellis" for FedExiXL started with 1 employee in Memphis and we grew to over 120 as well as over 60 locations in US. Later we went belly up during the .com crash. Regardless it was a great experience and an outstanding team of individuals. Between iXL and FedEx served in other positions of success as VP of Sales, VP & GM and President/CEO for other firms.

While at U of M started as one of original 12 customer reps at "Pre IPO FedEx". When I left was managing department of 100 employees and 6 supervisors. Achieved 6 promotions in 5 years as one of youngest department heads in company at time.FedEx gave me great insight into business at young age and an "On The Job MBA". Last check up Doctor reported blood still Purple and Orange. Employee # 3376.Vince Fagan, Tucker Taylor, Heinz Adam & Fred Smith were all mentors of mine. Pete Wilmott hired & coached me - An Invaluable Experience with a World Class Organization!