Joel Katz Email & Phone Number

Oviedo, Fl, Us

Monroe, Louisiana , Us

Monroe, Louisiana, Us

Manage a multi-tiered organization made up of team Supervisors, Lead Solution Engineers, and Front line Sale Engineers across the Florida Branch. Provide leadership and Management to a team who handles from Medium Enterprise Customers, up to Fortune 1000, and Global customers in all aspects of Information Technology. My Solution Engineering teams are responsible for discovery and ownership of business and technical requirements in order to craft a total solution based on:+ Cloud Solutions: Public Cloud, Dedicated Cloud, and Hybrid Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google, CLC)+ Managed Hosting and Colocation+ Managed Security+ Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BCDR)+ IT Consulting+ Managed Network solutions+ Wide Area Networking (WAN)+ Voice and VoIP technologies (Hosted, Managed. and Premise Based Solutions)Management Lead for IT Security SE Subject Matter Expert Team; Act as Lead for team of Sales Engineering Information Security Subject Matter Experts (SME’s), who provide overlay Solution Engineering support nationwide on the full array of CenturyLink Security Offerings including: • Adaptive Threat Intelligence• Cloud Security, and Enhanced Cybersecurity• SIEM, Incident Response, and Security Log Monitoring• DDOS, IDS, and IPS• Vulnerability, Risk Assessment, and Compliance• Web Security, Email Security, and Web Application Firewall• Infrastructure Security, Network-Based Security, and Managed Firewall Services

Monroe, La, Us

As Sales Director I functioned as the sales team’s leader, making certain the right pieces are in place and that we meet all deliverables and deadlines. I managed the sales resources, monitor performance, troubleshoot and resolve problems for digital businesses, with the goal to provide the best customer experience. CenturyLink partners with our clients on the many opportunities and challenges they’re trying to manage, including:✦ Collaborating with CEOs, CIOs, CTOs and IT Directors to modernize their network and IT environments to remain secure and competitive.✦ Helping CIOs, VPs of Network Architecture, and IT Operations Managers evaluate effective SD WAN solutions to help prevent latency from driving away business.✦ Devising solutions to defend your infrastructure assets and websites with Managed Firewall, Network-Based Security, IPS & VPN, and DDoS Mitigation.✦ Enabling corporate buyers, change agents and business influencers to gain the agility to compete, save on infrastructure costs, and increase efficiency with connections to the cloud, hybrid cloud solutions and managed services.

Monroe, La, Us

Acted as Lead Sales Engineer for team of Senior Sales Engineers in the Southeast. Worked on day to day Design and Sales of Qwest Wide Area Network and Hosting/Cloud solutions. Also acted as the first point of escalation for technical issues from the Sales Engineering Team. Focused on interacting with customers and product marketing and management to design consultative solutions.

Monroe, La, Us

Acts as Wide Area Network (WAN) subject matter expert for Qwest selling resources across the Southern Region. Met with large and medium size customers and uncovered IP, Data, Voice, VoIP, and Hosting opportunities. Designed appropriate Frame Relay, ATM, IP, Voice, VoIP, and Hosting solutions to fit customers needs. Presented and closed solutions to customers along with direct selling resource. Trained the sales resources across the region in Qwest’s full data/voice/IP product suite. Acts as member of the Southern Region Management team with regard to strategic and personnel direction.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Acted as electronic commerce, data, and Internet applications expert for the BellSouth selling resources North Florida. Worked directly with the sales force to uncover and sell business and network applications for the high end customer set. Was charged with training the BellSouth sales force in the use of consultative selling skills rather than product focus selling. Maintained profit and loss responsibility for all of the BellSouth Electronic Commerce, Data, and Managed Network Services product line.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Managed electronic commerce sales and support staff, product specialists, and technical sales support team across the state of Florida. Handled all personnel issues, manpower load balancing issues, and salary treatment issues for management employees and clerical employees. Maintained profit and loss responsibility for all of the AT&T Electronic Commerce / Data product line, Affinity product line, and high end technical telecommunications product line. Designed and implemented the Florida Electronic Commerce Business Marketing Plan.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Sold AT&T network services and equipment to large business customers. Identified customers' needs, developed and presented proposals, and managed the implementation of telecommunications solutions. Was responsible for a five million dollar module of customer accounts.

Prepared for presentation, various reports dealing with financial forecasts and gross profitability of the product line, as well as company budget forecasts for upper level management. Managed the department that dealt with customer service, the collection of outstanding accounts, and the extension of corporate credit.

Sold offshore full text data entry service to major legal firms. Developed and presented proposals based on the cost savings of using Jamaican data entry clerks to handle full text data needs. Managed clerical and telemarketing staff of eight employees.

Bs, Business Management

Mba, Management, International Business, Marketing