Dan Gueldner Email & Phone Number

Waukesha, Wi, Us

Greater Milwaukee

I am the business owner of Cabinet IQ, serving the greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County area as "The Smart Choice for Cabinets and Countertops". We’ve redefined what it means for a homeowner or custom home builder to do business with a kitchen and bath remodeling (or new construction) company by focusing on a blend of technology and a top notch customer experience from start to finish. Every client is to be treated like family, and every detail, from communication, respect, transparency, and craftsmanship is expected at a level far above any other company thanks to our “6 star” service mindset. We look forward to serving you in the Wisconsin market.

• Services sales leader of technical and lifecycle services sales executives supporting approximately 100 of Cisco’s largest Fortune 500 Global Enterprise customers headquartered in the Central US.• Team responsible for total contract value business bookings of over $276M for FY23, representing 128% attainment to goal. FY24 1H performance continued at 110% attainment with 25% YoY growth in new business.• Direct responsibility for recruiting, training, and managing this team through the entire sales, financial, and legal negotiation process, including setting annual targets and goals for pipeline generation, booked deals, and leading overall operational sales best practice initiatives.• Americas level advisory board member for improving internal employee enablement specific to sales operations, go to market services portfolio improvement, and global employee onboarding and training.• Recipient of numerous team awards representing significant global first to market sales wins, growth in new business, growth in service attach penetration rates, and growth in new offer sales.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Chairman's Club Winner (Top 1% of Global Sales)• Top performing service sales account executive specializing in complex global technical and professional services with large global enterprise customers headquartered in WI, MN, and IL markets.• Solution selling and business outcome focused to include C-level relationships across all vertical industries.• Services portfolio included high touch technical services, global assessments, consulting/advisory, new technology adoption, plan, design, and implementation, network infrastructure optimization, security incident response, and fully managed services (route/switch/wireless, data center/cloud, collaboration, and security).• Accountable for all aspects of sales process, contract/legal negotiation, and coordination with cross functional technical, business development, delivery, and customer success organizations to lead the customer relationship and execute on annual sales goals ranging from $8-25M.• Average annual attainment in role was 180%.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Global leadership role reporting to CIO with direct accountability for the program development, execution, and oversight of a $40M savings initiative to globalize the enterprise technology organization.• Responsibility for hiring 300+ global associates across 4 international locations (India/Costa Rica) who provided remote infrastructure management and software development support to U.S. offices and data centers.• Core responsibilities also included global training, relationship and financial management, client contract negotiation, legal compliance, performance management, and inter-cultural communications training.• International travel required frequently to staffing locations throughout India.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Key member of major alliance channel partnership with ATT, serving a large enterprise account which generated approximately $60M annually in circuit, equipment, and professional services revenue.• Responsibilities included telecommunications project management, inside/outside sales, market development, and vendor/client relationship management.• Instrumental in designing, documenting, implementing, and supporting the CPE (customer premise equipment) program that existed between the AT&T account team and their enterprise customers in WI.• Direct responsibility for selling $5M in annual recurring Cisco services revenue, including selling the single largest to date services contract in company history.

Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States

Immediately upon returning to the USA, I was contacted and asked to serve as an emergency private high school business and IT teacher due to an accident within the faculty. I inherited responsibility to conduct all teaching duties relating to class instruction, including writing full lesson plans, lecturing, conducting lab activities, writing and correcting exams, and tutoring special need students. Classes included Business Law, Accounting Principles (2nd Level), Advanced Information Processing, and freshman level Understanding Business.

Christchurch, New Zealand

• Obtained New Zealand work visa and was offered a 1 year sabbatical from Rockwell Automation.• Once in NZ, negotiated for contract work with the Pyne Gould Corporation Technology Group.• Responsibilities included IT project management and corporate desktop, server, and network support for corporate location in Christchurch as well as all subsidiary companies throughout New Zealand.• Travel required to remote New Zealand offices for routine support issues as well as implementation of specific projects.

Mequon, Wisconsin, United States

• Team lead technical resource for large manufacturing IT/OT environment in Mequon, WI.• Technically proficient in resolving complex IT issues for Novell/NT server, ethernet network, and PCs across 1,200+ users and 1,000+ devices.• Spearheaded remote IT support management for Tecate, Mexico facility.• Coordinated large local employee and technical transition to a new Mequon, WI R&D center.• Managed a team of 5 IT interns, driving daily operations and development.

Mba, Business Administration - Ecommerce & Entrepreneurial Business

B.S. - Business Administration, Double Major - It & Marketing

Activities and Societies: Residence Hall Association - Executive Board Secretary, Wisconsin United Residence Hall Association Conference.