Jeff Morris Email & Phone Number

Durham, Nc, Usa

I help businesses increase your profitability by optimizing your bookkeeping & by providing actionable insights you can use to grow your business. I use the latest technology behind the scenes to present you with your reports and descriptions of how you are doing financially so that even if you are not a whiz at finance, you'll have a clear & concise explanation of how to improve your profitability and financial health of your business.After many years of owning my own successful businesses and acting as CFO, I have gained a great understanding for analyzing books and giving real data & ideas on how to compare time periods & how you are doing vs others in your industry and optimize your business financially. I also have degrees in Electrical Engineering, Economics & Mathematics so numbers & patterns come very easily to me.CONNECT WITH ME IMMEDIATELY for a free evaluation of your books & my new customer pricing or call/text me at 919-345-2919.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

♦ Founded 2nd successful business with wife after profitable sale of earlier travel business. Developed product, pricing, and marketing strategy, oversaw financial operations and planning, established global vendor relationships and supply chains. Expanded product line into music technology, jewelry, and fine wine market.Notable Accomplishments:📌Expanded the company so that it became the holding company for other diverse businesses that were successful in Digital Signal Processing for music innovation, jewelry design, and fine wine education and distribution. 📌Developed overseas relationships in Asia that allowed the company to have an exclusive importer relationship with an organic farm in Vietnam. 📌Created pricing models and oversaw recipe creation that drove market differentiation and business success.📌Led efforts that resulted in our signature blend Roasted Garlic Sea Salt being named product of the month by Intermezzo magazine.📌Leveraged mathematical design experience to create the sound that helped one musician win a Grammy Award.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

♦ Recruited as first Vice President of Sales and Marketing to build sales team, develop marketing strategy, and penetrate global B2B and B2C markets for company's 1st product developed in collaboration with NASA. Built and led team of 8.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

♦ Co-founded niche lodging services business to serve growing national youth athletics travel market. Accurately identified market niche, and built business around partnerships with teams, event sponsors, and hotels. Developed industry-leading hotel database / scheduling software to give company competitive edge on service quality and prices.Notable Accomplishments:📌Developed automated software-driven processes that refined the business's logistics to the point where the company was able to handle the booking of up to 25,000 hotel rooms in a single weekend.📌Secured a 7X growth in the number of soccer tournaments by enhancing relationships with C-Level Executives, Chambers of Commerce and Convention & Visitor Bureaus around the country.📌Created profit models that ensured that cash flow was strong, and the company could retain the best performers through exceptional HR programs.📌Introduced Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery procedures that protected the company from data loss and secured company assets.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

♦ Brought in to build sales team and operations, and grow Eastern US / Canada / Europe / Middle East sales territories for startup technology firm at explosive growth stage. Developed product and marketing strategy that brought then-new technology to global market. Built matrixed team to total of 70 internal employees and manufacturer reps.Notable Accomplishments:📌Developed a highly successful and well-orchestrated deal pursuit strategy by marshaling the company VP Sales, VP Marketing, CTO & CEO for conference calls and trips across the country and the globe.📌Demonstrated the unique ability to handle all business, sales, and technical situations required to close a complex and technical deal, expanding business so significantly in the first year that additional staff was added.📌Consistently beat much larger competitors like Broadcom that released a similar product by leading whiteboard sessions that illuminated our technical advantages, particularly in the critical area of switch latency.📌Forged an exceptional relationship with the IBM Server Division CTO that resulted in many products wins.📌Exceptional proficiency in highly technical sales environments helped closed server design deals with VP/CTOs at HP and five large European customers.📌Built brand recognition in worldwide markets through collaboration with the VP of Marketing to design high impact and technically rich marketing materials and PowerPoint presentations.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

♦ Hired as Senior Field Applications Engineer responsible for pre- and post-sale technical support. Promoted to Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Region Sales Manager in 2001, and continued growth leadership after purchase by Marvell, directing matrixed internal and sales rep team of 26 in explosive territory sales growth with capture of company's largest accounts.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

♦ Technical arm of a semiconductor sales manufacturers representative. Responsibility for theSoutheastern US. Job responsibilities included interfacing with semiconductor Engineers & Salespeople, visiting customers and potential customers to explain the benefits of using the devices I represented and then helping them in the designs to speed time to market for them and time to revenue for us.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

♦ Lead Engineer & Manager for all hardware and software development for network test equipment for a then cutting edge 155Mbps OC3 ATM test device for checking network performance, reliability, etc. When I joined in December I was not told in advance that a fully functional prototype had been promised to a major customer by August and no work had been started. I architected the system, designed 6 chips myself and rallied the team to victory! Along the way I made sure the design was modular and reusable for other technology interfaces. I was then promoted to Chief Hardware Engineer for the company where my role included a lot of advance Marketing positions to figure out the proper direction the company should take.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

♦ Digital hardware design Engineer. After a canceled project, my primary responsibility was to be one of the two hardware engineers designing the first ATM to the desktop aggregator. Completed project ahead of schedule ( waiting on software for a few months which I helped complete ). Demonstrated to upper management how design was modular and spent 2 weeks to turn it from an aggregator to an 8 port switch. I learned from my experience at IBM that I needed a smaller, less rigid work environment in order to be more creative.

Poughkeepsie, New York, United States

♦ Design of software diagnostics for the IBM 3090 mainframe computer. Completed first major product that was estimated by IBM to take 6-9 months in 2 weeks. Continued software development for 3090 looking to move into the networking field in Raleigh, NC.