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Anchorage, Alaska Area

Responsible for strategic direction and revenue in the Education division. Leading sales, operations, and marketing strategy focusing on customer experience. Ensure quality service delivery through a close working relationship with internal department leadership and senior management. Drive business development and strategic planning in coordination with other division directors. Provide direction for external communications.In this role, I have consistently grown the Education business, driving the team to increase revenue by over 50% in the past four years. This was accomplished despite already having a commanding share of the market. Growth has been enabled by offering better solutions that support customer success and leverage the entire organization’s strengths. Our team always presents the best value as a premium provider and wins over lower-cost commodity offers from the competition.While steering the team to success, I also pushed to make every engagement better than the last, taking every opportunity to support, teach, and improve the team along with the outcomes. The goal is not just to be the best but to continually improve.

Anchorage, Alaska Area

Managing the pre-sales solutions engineering team for all of GCI Business. Directly responsible for managing and recruiting a diverse set of talented engineers and working with market segment leaders and operations groups to facilitate strategic sales, as well as identifying needs and developing training plans to enable individual success, implementing and enforcing policies and procedures to facilitate overall group success.

Anchorage, Alaska Area

This role primarily focuses on solution design, proposal, and presentation of enterprise networks for educational and health institutions. These networks encompass vast physical distances and extensive technical challenges. Designs need to account for mission critical data including voice and video traffic traversing a mix of dedicated and shared terrestrial and satellite facilities. I have refined my technical and layman writing skills to target a diverse customer base with varying degrees of technical aptitude in order to effectively convey the value of our solution. This combined with quality presentations and continual account management has accounted for significant growth for the business line.Post sales, my duties comprised of creating detailed scope of work statements and contract resource documents for the project-engineering group. My efforts in this area have significantly improved the speed and accuracy of implementing new services. I have also been responsible for contract negotiations; capital and COGS analysis, business case development, product development, and project management.

Anchorage, Alaska Area

I was instrumental in the design and implementation of a service provider MPLS network that enabled centralized service delivery and minimized incremental service costs. I went on to refine the IP and QoS design of the department’s iDirect satellite transport platform allowing for shared access to multi-transponder networks with tiered service levels. Further, I designed and implemented an education services hub within the network Core providing efficiencies to increase margins on those services.

Anchorage, Alaska Area

Support IVC services for the ISTE annual conference. Coordinate successful conferencing with vendors, SIGIVC volunteers, participant, and presenters.

Anchorage, Alaska Area

Lead Network Administrator for an Alaskan ISP. Supported services ranging from dial-up to satellite based T1 private line. Customers ranged from consumer to large rural school districts and rural ISPs, such as Nushagak Telephone Cooperative, Bristol Bay Telephone Cooperative, and United Utilities Inc.

Anchorage, Alaska Area

Administered and supported a small office network.