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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Helping to build an exceptional company with ground-breaking products.

Toronto, Canada Area

Boutique consultancy focused on helping newly established companies establish sales channels, create positive cultures and develop operating models that flex with growth.• Advised several companies using AI related solutions in retail, customer service and legal services industries• Developed links with local government funding networks to help growth of local companies and assist in landing international businesses in Toronto’s vibrant start-up scene

Curator and creator of the global oddness gallery that was twitter's infamous @irkafirka. Responsible for the various social web outsproutings, a national AR treasure-hunt, and one of the Best Mobile Apps of 2012, according to The Independent newspaper (UK). Also, deputy chairman of the "Why Don't We Do This" committee.

Profitable consultancy helping technology companies explain their value to themselves, their staff and their customers. Projects included:• Numerous internal comms initiatives to enhance and enrich the corporate culture at NCR• Producing pre-sales, sales and deployment documentation for innovative B2B SaaS offerings for Vodafone• Developing messaging, collateral and training programmes for Avaya sales teams to quickly expand their pipelines after acquiring Nortel• Creating… Show more Profitable consultancy helping technology companies explain their value to themselves, their staff and their customers. Projects included:• Numerous internal comms initiatives to enhance and enrich the corporate culture at NCR• Producing pre-sales, sales and deployment documentation for innovative B2B SaaS offerings for Vodafone• Developing messaging, collateral and training programmes for Avaya sales teams to quickly expand their pipelines after acquiring Nortel• Creating and documenting a joint value proposition to enable a strong channel partnership between Wincor Nixdorf and Honeywell Show less

Covered all aspects of pre-sales and sales support for a variety of channel partners across Europe, inlcuding speaking at industry events and seminars, dealing with press and analysts.Strengthened the channel program, including signing the company’s first distribution deal. Worked with product development teams in the US to change the sales strategy away from point product sales to a wider enterprise focus leading to 85% YoY growth. Worked on product launches, including… Show more Covered all aspects of pre-sales and sales support for a variety of channel partners across Europe, inlcuding speaking at industry events and seminars, dealing with press and analysts.Strengthened the channel program, including signing the company’s first distribution deal. Worked with product development teams in the US to change the sales strategy away from point product sales to a wider enterprise focus leading to 85% YoY growth. Worked on product launches, including speaking at industry events and seminars, liaising with press and analysts. Show less

CSE for the UK supporting all direct and indirect sales efforts, especially with respect to WLAN and system management opportunities. Was able to successfully develop many multi-million dollar opportunities with blue-chip customers.Ran a series of successful seminars for our pre-sales engineers explaining in-depth elements of the technologies we were selling to raise the bar above the rest of the industry.

Responsible for 47% increase in revenues for Wireless Solutions Group, putting services at the forefront of the sales process.Created and delivered innovative service offerings focusing on VoIP over WLAN and securityDelivered channel delivery model for services, including assisting with the development of marketing materials and the training and assessment of partners

Designed and delivered consistently successful large-scale WLAN installations throughout the UK, including the country’s first VoIP over Wi-Fi implementationResponsible for presenting the benefits of Symbol wireless solutions to customers and partnersCreated documentation for new product and service offerings and developed training programmes for colleagues

Responsible for repair and troubleshooting of WLAN and mobile computing systems throughout UK, Ireland and France to demanding call-to-fix service level agreements