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St. Louis, MO, US

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for driving technology strategy in the data communications space for Graybar. What does this involve? Design thinking and deep inquiry into technologies our customers care about: IoT and Connected Environments, Data Centers and Edge Computing, Mobility, Security & Audio Visual technologies.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

St Louis, Missouri

Work with committee members to help provide insights to CompTIA members regarding IoT technologies and how they impact their business and their customers.

Greater St. Louis Area

Drive OEM supplier sales through creative data analysis, program management and entrepreneurial thinking.

Greater St. Louis Area

Owned the overall go to market strategy for TESSCO's Wi-Fi product line of active hardware and software product offerings. I worked closely with product managers, suppliers and internal stakeholders to reboot our strategy to drive revenue growth in markets where we had natural strengths. This resulted in significant YoY revenue growth that exceeded annual.

Greater St. Louis Area

Entrepreneurial position developing a new 17 state territory selling Layer 2 networking software, hardware and professional services solutions through channel partners. Recruited and developed channel partners selling into the Government, Healthcare, Hospitality, Higher Education and K-12 verticals. I was able to grow the territory from scratch to a.

Hickory/Lenoir, North Carolina Area

Responsible for managing Corning Cable System's global Passive Optical LAN offering. Created and executed marketing strategies, developed channel / partner relationships and supported local sales efforts. Resulting strategy met product goals and generated in excess of $5M of pull through business annually.

Responsible for analyzing the global competitive environment for Corning's enterprise business in the Data Center and Local Area Network market segments. Provided senior leadership with vetted market growth and sizing information necessary for making short and long term investment decisions.

Designed structured cabling infrastructure for Data Centers, Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks for federal and enterprise customers. Provided engineering sales support in customer facing engagements. Subject matter expert for Data Center, Intelligent Infrastructure Management and Passive Optical Lan products.

Commercial and residential loan consultant responsible for marketing, originating and developing partner relationships.

Managed a fiber optic installation profit center with a national footprint. Staff included project managers, in house technicians and contract installation teams.

Initially as Bluestar Communications, I was responsible for deploying our DSL infrastructure in the 9 state Bell South footprint in a startup environment. When purchased by Covad, I managed a product development team responsible for new business services, from concept to full integration and deployment.

Worked as a Data Engineer managing Frame relay and ATM installation projects. Was promoted to a Project Manager position responsible for integration and product development. Worked as a Sr. Project Manager with various key customers and their ongoing projects. Final assignment was as Sr. Program Manager responsible for a PMO assigned to key clients.

Responsible for designing voice and data networks for various branches of the military. Managed the SPX telemetry network.

Masters

Bachelor Of Science