Patrick Charbonneau Email & Phone Number

Montréal, Québec, Ca

R2i is a leader in Cloud Computing (Private, Public and Hybrid), 24/7 Managed Services, Data Centre Solutions and Artificial Intelligence. R2i’s multiple Canadian-based ISO certified cloud infrastructure features IBM Power, x86 (windows / Linux), shared storage and SAP Hana offerings. R2i is headquartered in Montreal with offices in Ottawa and the GTA.www.r2i.caAs a senior account manager at R2i, under the direction of the vice-president, I am responsible for managing and growing corporate clients.• I am responsible for recruiting new clients using my extensive IT experience to develop and maintain major clients.• As an IT expert, I have to advise clients on optimization, virtualization, business continuity solutions, but especially analysis and migration to different cloud solutions from R2i, AWS or Microsoft Azure.• I must make sure to offer turnkey solutions by positioning, in collaboration with my solution architect, the best possible technologies as well as the various professional services required, including managed services and project management.• I must also share my expertise, in order to evolve the offers and solutions of the R2i company within certain strategic projects.

Québec, Québec, Ca

As Senior Director of Business Development at Micro Logic under the direction of the President, I was responsible for helping build the branch office of Montreal.• I am responsible for recruiting new major clients using my vast experience in IT, acquisition and development.• As an information technology expert, I have to advise clients on optimization, virtualization, business continuity solutions, but especially analysis and migration to different cloud solutions from Project Cirrus from Micro Logic, AWS or Microsoft Azure, and many migrations to Office 365.• I must make sure to offer turnkey solutions by positioning in collaboration with my solution architect the best possible technologies as well as the various professional services required, including managed services and project management.• I also jointly held my position for a year with the position of sales manager in the Montreal office. I had to support representatives in the development of their customers, develop relationships with manufacturers and participate in the administrative committee of the head office to help market the Montreal office.

Montréal, Québec, Ca

As a client manager at Present under the direct authority of the President, I was responsible for recruiting and developing large clients for the company.• My role was to develop IT staffing practice and sales services for IT solutions in the X86 domain.• As an expert in IBM solutions, I advised clients on optimization, virtualization, business continuity, portal, content management and communication solutions using IBM hardware technologies (system i, p, x and storage) as well as IBM software technologies (Websphere, Notes, Rational, DB2, Tivoli and others).

The account manager position I held at Microserv was offered to me in order to develop new major accounts for the company by making the most of the resources of our parent company, Hartco.• I have therefore developed during these 14 years very large corporate accounts, some of which are international, we have also become the official global supplier of IT solutions for a large media company for several years.• My second mandate was to reach sales objectives set by the company and to assemble and manage a team of 7 people, which allowed an increase of more than 40% of my objective, with sales of more than 21 million per year. I was also the winner of several sales goal contests for award travel.

Montréal, Québec, Ca

The position of IT representative that I held within Izone led me mainly to develop my skills in management and account development in the corporate market.• I was responsible for the development of new customer mainly in the media sector. I have managed to reach millions of sales a year with major clients.

Gresham, Oregon, Us

Under the authority of the President, I was responsible for setting up a new IT department to meet customer demand in the field of electronic publishing.• Responsible for implementing the new department purchasing system, negotiating new suppliers, setting up the inventory system, purchasing and invoicing over a million per month.• In addition, I was the one who developed and implemented the technical service department within the company, hiring technicians, supervision, distribution.