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Athens, Georgia Area

Workforce Innovators works with employers and staffing agencies to understand the local workforce needs and prepares its students through short term skills training to meet those needs. We are dedicated to making sure that our candidates receive the needed hard skills and soft skills training to qualify for entry level trades positions available in the local market. Our mission is to prepare workforce candidates for jobs through intense short term skills training, such as welding and Industrial maintenance.

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Independent business and technology management consulting, project management and operations management. Performs infrastructure evaluation and assessments of a company's infrastructure systems, and develops recommendations based upon the organization's business needs. Performs project management services for a new equipment rollouts and refreshes of a multi-site organizations. Value in providing procurement and management services to determine best value solutions and TCO. 27 year veteran that understands soft and hard asset value.

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Worked to fulfill the network design, product procurement, and service delivery needs of select named accounts in the financial industry in Alabama. Evaluated and recommended new products for security, content delivery, IP transport, Ethernet access, and SDN. Provided solutions and quotes; processed orders. Coordinated engineering resources and product/project management teams for large multi-site implementations. Collaborated with client engineering, management, and security to fulfill compliance and functional network requirements. Partnered with technical teams and project managers to address the daily needs of large remote office networks and resolve day-to-day service/support issues. Hosted technical and informational solutions sessions for IT and architecture groups. Arranged and coordinated with Cisco, Viptela and Verizon the equipment, network and professional services needed for (2) production pilots as proof of concept for large international bank. Served on a team that introduced SDN network solutions to large enterprise-level accounts in Alabama. Played a key role in planning and hosting two full-day executive briefing conferences and responding to three major RFPs in three months. Conceptualized an SD WAN design for a large RFP that utilized both Cisco and Viptela segments to decrease total number of circuits and associated costs. Leveraged relationships with Cisco and Viptela to provide pilots at a reduced cost and coordinate service at multiple locations. Lead Verizon team sales efforts for network renewal opportunities for select enterprise customers in Alabama.

Served as primary AT&T representative for sales, business, and technical solutions to a named account in the Signature Client Group in Alabama. Oversaw day-to-day sales activities and sales support functions, including sales activity tracking, quota attainment, and sales process administration. Led a five-person account team focused on business strategy, technology solutions, customer service management, contract management, lifecycle management, and relationship management/development. Worked directly with the IT and telecom groups to facilitate infrastructure projects and ongoing sales/service support of all AT&T business solutions for both wirelines and wireless opportunities. Created new significant opportunities through astute resolution of AT&T business and billing issues. Provided a workaround solution that enabled a customer to retrieve billing data, saving $280K in consulting fees. Corrected configuration issues for a 280-node ATM network win for AT&T that was initially won by another vendor. Coordinated high-impact product presentations for IP2020 solutions and transition strategies.

Atlanta, Ga

Worked with the direct accounts team in the Georgia region to cover a named major account (one of the world’s largest retailers). Handled overall account management, including sales, services (Day 1 and Day 2), and ongoing account administration. Managed and supported Avaya business partner activities and direct business opportunities. Collaborated with Avaya account team members to develop and produce voice solutions for the customer, including high-availability voice infrastructure, SIP, wireless hand-held Windows Mobile applications, new-store implementations, contact centers, natural language speech systems, voice/data infra-structures for store/non-store locations, Avaya Day 2 support offerings, Avaya professional services for new projects, and ongoing high-level oversight. Interfaced daily with the customer’s voice engineering team and associated customer business stakeholders to meet project and support needs for the customer’s 330,000 employees and 2,500 locations worldwide. Contributor to AVAYA team in retaining large maintenance customer and sales on the customer’s existing Avaya network against competitive vendors.

Birmingham, Alabama

Conceived and established this start-up IT Services business to 35+ employees devising relationships, generating new business, and securing new client contracts through customer service oriented engagement philosophy. Led operations, finance, HR, sales, marketing, and solutions sales. Allocated resources to optimize revenue and returns. Outlined and developed strategic plans and business goals. Built comprehensive expertise in voice communications, technology needs assessments, system integration, as well as, remote system access, emerging technology planning, and acquisitions/mergers. Monitored and verified checks, including billing, expenses, A/R, A/P. Provided IT support services to HealthSouth, Colonial Properties, Mayer Electric, Amsouth, Superior Bank, Lakeshore Foundation, Amerex and many other Alabama based organizations. Established and implemented short and long-range organizational goals, objectives, and policies. Assessed and evaluated new technologies to innovate processes. Offered specialist knowledge to enhance build process, coordinate resources, and allocate resources.

One of the top producers each year; technical sales well over $1M in 1989+. Successfully trained and managed other top producers. Played valuable service oriented role.