Brad Bentley Email & Phone Number

Bozeman, Montana, United States

Expanding upon my previous role as an Engineering Director with P&L Responsibility, I've been tasked with new and exciting responsibilities for CompuNet. As a Senior Engineering Business Strategist, I focus on company wide engineering talent management, resource models, compensation strategies, performance metrics, analytics/reporting, and.

Bozeman, MT

• As a member of the Corporate Engineering Leadership team, I am 1 of 3 Engineering Directors for our division of 140 engineers company wide. I’ve either led or co-led in the following initiatives: individual annual.
• Responsible for recruiting, hiring, and managing a distributed engineering and service delivery team of 20 engineers and 2 Service Delivery Managers/PMs (oversee $3+ million annual payroll)
• Shape and foster team culture, conduct quarterly “all-hands” meetings, and recognize top performers
• Actively participate on corporate leadership teams and committees to shape company direction and initiatives.
• Develop and present annual strategic business plans to the company. Participate in internal/external QBRs
• Launched new lines of business and services to broaden our portfolio of local P&L offerings

Bozeman, MT

• Developed an expansion market for CompuNet consisting of Montana and Eastern Idaho. Primary responsibilities included:
• Recruiting, hiring, and managing a distributed sales engineering team.
• Established and fostered team culture
• Team leader and motivator
• Sales partnership and technical account management
• Vendor/manufacturer relationship management

Bozeman, MT

• As a consulting sales engineer at CompuNet, my role was to educate and advise our clients on technology solutions to solve their business challenges. I consulted clients in all business verticals including healthcare.
• Technical pre-sales and post-sales implementations (we implemented what we architected).
• Wrote statements-of-work and pre-sales business proposals with visual aids and pricing matrices.
• Created technical bills-of-materials for hardware and software (including maintenance/support).
• Developed project management plans and managed individual calendar scheduling (pre/post sales).
• Post-implementation project documentation, knowledge transfer and customer support.

• Responsible for all voice and data communications for a publicly traded global software company that employed over 1400 people. Architected, implemented, and maintained secure, reliable, and scalable solutions.
• Managed all corporate routing, switching, wireless, unified communications and security technologies.
• Implemented enterprise-level network management systems which enabled proactive monitoring, alerting, trending, forecasting, Net Flow analysis, real-time packet inspection and application performance monitoring.
• Mentored and developed IT team members on technical abilities and overall business acumen.
• Implemented a custom contact center solution for the Customer Care business unit consisting of a complex integration between RightNow IVR, Cisco UCCE and the RightNow Agent Desktop with a call control CTIOS media bar..
• Received 3 “A Team” awards for outstanding team project performance

• Responsible for overseeing all engineering and administration of corporate Information Technology services.
• Actively involved with senior management on the planning and execution of annual capital IT budget ($3M).
• Responsible for vendor management and maintenance contracts.
• Conducted employee performance reviews, development plans, training and candidate recruiting.
• Reduced costs significantly for telecommunications, software licensing, network hardware and maintenance through contract re-negotiation and improved technology implementations.
• Managed the IT audits and integrations of two acquired software companies.

Systems administrator of corporate Active Directory, email, backups, data network and remote access technologies.