Dennis Everson Email & Phone Number

Winfield, Illinois

Chicago, IL

Sales Engineer / Network Design Consultant / Application Engineering Manager with strong sales engineering, customer support and management experience. Expertise in building company and product loyalty by developing long term relationships with customers and business partners in a technical sales environment. Highly developed interpersonal skills with.

• Established the company’s technical/sales relationship with key lab and engineering personnel at TDS Telecommunications increasing sales from less than $100K dollars in 2010 to over $2.5M dollars in 2012.
• Delivered pre/post sales product support including building quotes, equipment installations and customized product training over a six state sales territory that consisted of small to medium sized telephone service.
• Designed a network hardware solution and provided specialized, hands-on product training classes for US Cellular resulting in a significant reduction in telephone company office space and substantial energy cost.
• Provided trade show support for Adtran’s resellers and distributors increasing corporate and product visibility and vendor loyalty among the company’s sales partners.

Greater Chicago Area

• Successfully completed lab trials at AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and Qwest resulting in the approval of several products for deployment into their network infrastructure.
• Developed and delivered customized training classes for the company’s resellers, partners and distributors, enhancing their technical expertise and confidence which resulted in increased sales for the company.
• Managed the relationship with the technical staff at major enterprise accounts such as IBM, Exelon and Consolidated Edison resulting in achieving over 100% of quota achievement for the sales territory.
• Achieved multiple years of over 100% of quota performance resulting in being awarded the “System Engineer of the Year”.

Greater Chicago Area

• Reported to the Director of sales and responsible for designing networks, recommending third party telecommunications equipment and providing customer site surveys.
• Coordinated the sale of third party personal computers and premise wiring contracts resulting in a single contract worth over $1M dollars in revenue.
• Designed and managed the installation of all network wiring and hardware within one of the company’s largest office buildings resulting in improved internet access and network reliability.

Greater Chicago Area

• Reported to the Director of Domestic Sales and responsible for recruiting and managing a staff of Application Engineers throughout the United States and Canada.
• Achieved an extremely high level of customer satisfaction by organizing and scheduling the daily and weekly activities of 15 Application Engineers resulting in increased company sales revenues.
• Created and implemented an incentive/bonus program for the Application Engineers resulting in lowering the overall personnel budget while improving individual employee retention.