Karl Johnson Email & Phone Number

An accomplished and successful manager with extensive leadership experience in various business sectors. I possess a breadth of knowledge and experience that enables me to drive revenue generation. I am adept at team building (talent development), team management, customer success, SaaS sales and support, and product management. I am a problem solver, and my track record of innovative ideas and management initiatives speak for themselves. An independent contractor with more than 15 years’ experience in software sales, multi-platform training, service, support, startups, talent management, and product management in the technology industry; An accomplished mentor, trainer, presenter, and manager. Although I prefer the give-and-take of live, face-to-face mentoring and training, I am similarly proficient in managing remote workers and telecommuters, as well as presenting to live online groups, and through canned forums. I adapt well to different work environments: I am able to focus on results and productivity, but I also enjoy being spontaneity and creativity. In my experiences as world-wide sales engineer, and in project management, I have proved to be an invaluable liaison between differing team cultures, such as marketing, sales, customer service, technical support, and engineering. Furthermore, with my years of successful product management and talent development, I possess the skills necessary to increase productivity, as well as employee and customer satisfaction.I have a voracious appetite to learn, and graduated with honors in while earning my MBA, in 2019. Being trained in PMP certification, and mastering business communication (minor), are some of the greatest benefits of my formal education. For fun, I am studying different languages, and currently working on Norwegian, and Spanish. Outside of the professional and secular arenas, I also serve as an HOA board member; I am a husband of 22 years, a father to 5 fantastic children, and a volunteer group leader in church.

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  World Wide Sales Engineer

  Onyx Graphics

  Jan 2000 - Oct 2005 - Greater Salt Lake City Area

  Onyx Graphics is a RIP software manufacturing company based out of Midvale, Utah. The five years I spent with them was invaluable. I had the opportunity to learn a lot about strategic B2B sales, sales training, product presentation and professionalism, from great mentors. I thoroughly enjoyed traveling around the world and networking with people from various cultures.Some of my responsibilities were to a) increase profitability through vertical market development, b) increase revenue through creative bi-product solutions, c) sales and technical support training of distribution channel, and d) work with sales, customer support and engineering to develop and communicate product information. Accomplishments: Networking with other industry leading manufactures, to create joint venturing partners; increasing revenue outside of the realm of selling our manufactured product; establishing partnerships with corporations such as Avery Dennison, HP, 3M, MacTac, Mimaki, Mutoh, and others.I worked closely with the Director of Sales for the Americas, as well as our marketing, support, and software development teams. I was relied upon in creation of color management profiles, color management training, sales support and as a technical liaison/project manager between engineering and sales. I traveled all over the United States and Canada, training the dealer channel, selling our product, as well as marketing it at various trade shows.