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Southeast Wisconsin

Since 1990, Centurion Data Systems has excelled in assisting our customers in meeting their business goals by deploying and managing business technology solutions that enables their organization to focus on their core business, rather than IT. Along with Managed Services support for IT Infrastructure, PC’s, Servers, Phones, Cloud and Software, we also provide a comprehensive suite of Managed Security Services that can protect your Intellectual Property and Digital Assets from ransomware, file exfiltration and internal threats that can also cause a loss of confidential data.

Greater Chicago Area / Southeast Wisconsin

Provided Pre-Sales Engineering support for Managed Value-Added Services including Cloud Voice, Network Infrastructure and Cybersecurity – SASE, SD-WAN, Edge, Security Assessments and Compliance Consulting. Note: This is similar to a position I had at AT&T from 2007 to 2010.

Greater Chicago Area / Southeast Wisconson

Provided Pre-Sales Engineering support for Cloud Voice solutions including AT&T WebEx Calling (Cisco multi-tenant platform), AT&T Office@Hand (Ring Central platform), AT&T Cloud Contact Center (Five9 platform), and Direct Routing for MS Teams. Promoted from an Applications Sales Executive 3 to 4 in 2021 for consistently exceeding quota.

Greater Chicago Area

Movius is a global provider of cloud-based mobility solutions that solves compliance and security challenges for global enterprises while improving productivity and cost management. This includes compliance with regulations such as FINRA.

Greater Chicago Area

Account Manager / Team Leader responsible for growing revenue and the support of mobility services to a small number of large Global Enterprise clients.

Greater Chicago Area / Southeast Wisconsin

Managed a base of existing customers and pursued new customer opportunities for the sales of Outsourced IT Services and Security.

North Central

Acquired new customer opportunities for the sales of Outsourced IT Services, Help Desk and Enterprise Mobility Management.

Midwest

Acquired new customer opportunities with a focus on global enterprise clients that require network, infrastructure, professional services, locally procured hardware and hosting solutions in China and Asia. Ranked 3rd out of all sales staff nationwide in 2012 for the acquisition of new customer logos.

Wisconsin & Illinois

As the primary account lead I was responsible for driving sales and managing customer relationships in the mid market space. Services include telecom, data networking and a strong emphasis on advanced technology solutions - Cloud Computing, Security, Managed Services and Professional Services.

This was a technical role that included managing account relationships and driving new revenue opportunities with global enterprise clients for Data Networking and Managed Services including Infrastructure, Hosting and Security.

Data Device was a Solutions Partner for several carriers (including AT&T, Verizon and SPRINT) and a provider of Data Networking Hardware, Infrastructure, Cloud Services, IP Telephony, Wireless, Security, Consulting and Managed Services. As the Vice President of Technical Services I was responsible for Complex Solution Design, Product and Customer Support.

Promoted for outstanding sales success and proven ability to manage customer relationships and sales staff.

Responsible for business development and the acquisition of new business, including a sale of an ATM WAN and Internet Connectivity solution that within a few years grew to over $300,000 a month in billing.