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Don Ward is listed as Customer Success & Tech Field Operations Leader | Servant Leader | PMF Strategy & Management at Gradient Cyber, based in Greater Houston, United States, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at missionsecure.com, phone signal with area code 512, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Don Ward.
Don Ward previously worked as Chief Customer Success Officer at Gradient Cyber and Chief Revenue & Services Officer at Mission Secure. Don Ward holds Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electronics Engineering Technology, Minor In Telecommunications from Texas A&M University.
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Progressive 25 year IT/OT networking and cyber security services and product platform career spanning individual contributor through upper management roles. Built and led top industry performing teams in Customer Success, Sales Engineering, Sales, Business Development, Product Planning, Professional Services, and Training Certifications. Non-stop student, quickly assimilating new technologies and teams that establish high performance ‘A’ player culture. I am a grateful and humble customer focused leader with strong business/financial, analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
Listed skills include Security, Cloud Computing, Solution Selling, Network Security, and 26 others.
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Southlake, Texas, US
Gradient Cyber is a differentiating leader in Managed XDR platform solutions, addressing underserved mid market clients across all verticals. We provide an end to end product and services solution offering clients & partners full turn-key, co-managed, or self-service options for addressing 'any' network and endpoint cybersecurity detection, protection, IR.
Charlottesville, Virginia, US
Took on global sales role in addition to services leadership as company streamlines for efficiency during challenging PMF and customer budget cycles.
Charlottesville, Virginia, US
Senior Executive Management team member responsible for all pre and post sales product and services operations, product & services strategy, deployment & pricing, customer success, partner and customer training & enablement, corporate operations & onboarding.Mission Secure stops OT cyber threats head-on, protecting OT networks and safeguarding operations.
Independent Professional Trader in Equities, Options, Futures, and Forex. Developed IT quantitative tools and strategies to back-test both discretionary and algorithmic trading strategies.Served as executive IT & organizational consultant in various corporate projects, inclusive of public/private/hybrid Cloud and SaaS support infrastructure, organizational.
Santa Clara, California, US
Arista Networks is a leader in building scalable, high-performance and ultra-low latency cloud networks with low power consumption and a small footprint for modern datacenter and campus environments.
Houston, Texas, US
HP acquired 3Com in 2010 for $2.7B. Led and directed Global Security Product operations for Customer Success & Experience for over 10,000 top Enterprise, Service Provider, Government, and K-12/Hi-Ed customers.
Marlborough, MA, US
TippingPoint was acquired by 3Com in January 2005 for $442 million and operated as a standalone division of 3Com with specific revenue and P&L targets. Led and directed Global Operations for Customer Success, inclusive of Pre and Post Sales Engineering, Support Services, and Professional Services.
TippingPoint took off from Pre-Revenue in late 2003 to attaining $32 million in fiscal 2004. During this time of extreme growth, in addition to managing and growing the Sales Engineering Team, I led all Support Services and Technical Training Team functions. Matured Technical Assistance Center (TAC) processes, adding to contact center infrastructure.
During this Pre-Revenue period for the company, was tasked by CEO/Founder John McHale to take on a specialized role with primary focus on landing one or more key strategic partners to scale our number one customer sales vertical at the time (Higher Education). Landed and signed an Enterprise Reseller Agreement with Dell that added a quarterly revenue.
Hired and managed SE Team from Employee #1. Spent considerable time taking alpha and beta level products to customer sites for beta and POC testing, working closely with TippingPoint Development Team for continued improved functionality. Responded to RFI/RFPs and competitive presentation requests from the field. Launched and refreshed SE field tools (demo.
Pre and Post Sales Systems Engineering Team Lead. Toplayer’s primary focus was on an appliance for load balancing application packet flows to servers, firewalls (FW), and intrusion detection systems (IDS). Other advanced features included IP quality of service (QOS), traffic shaping (TS), and distributed denial of service (DDOS) mitigation features.
Led small team of BD Account Managers and Technical Marketing Specialists in the Metro Optical Ethernet/Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) space. Traveled North America meeting with prospective large ILEC/CLEC Service Providers to vet out product planning features, respond to RFI/RFPs, and doing competitive market/segmentation analysis. Partnered with.
Led small team of BD Account Managers and Program Managers to seek industry partnerships/alliances in the Broadband DSL space. Vectris was a Cisco Powered Network Provider, rolling out managed broadband Internet DSL services to retail and commercial customers throughout the Texas and the Central US. Signed major National Reseller Agreements with AT&T.
San Jose, CA, US
Received Sales Engineering Excellence Award for North America from John Chambers in 1996. Progressed from entry-level Systems Engineer (SEII) to the highest promote-able ranking (SEIV) - CCIE #1571 Routing & Switching. Served instrumental roles in winning competitively held accounts from Alcatel/Ascend/Xylan, Bay/Wellfleet/Nortel, Cabletron, 3Com, Fore.
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Don Ward works for Gradient Cyber.
Don Ward is listed as Customer Success & Tech Field Operations Leader | Servant Leader | PMF Strategy & Management at Gradient Cyber.
AeroLeads has found 1 work email signal at @missionsecure.com for Don Ward at Gradient Cyber.
AeroLeads has found 3 phone signal(s) with area code 512 for Don Ward at Gradient Cyber.
Don Ward is based in Greater Houston, United States, United States while working with Gradient Cyber.
Don Ward has worked for Gradient Cyber, Mission Secure, Dee Dub Asset Management, Arista Networks, and Hp (Enterprise Security Products Group).
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Don Ward holds Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electronics Engineering Technology, Minor In Telecommunications from Texas A&M University.
Don Ward is listed with skills including Security, Cloud Computing, Solution Selling, Network Security, Go To Market Strategy, Customer Advocacy, Start Ups, and Technical Support.
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