Kerry Loveless Email & Phone Number

East Peoria, Illinois, United States

As a vCIO at Heart Technologies, I play a pivotal role in driving technology strategy, innovation, and alignment with business objectives for our clients. Leveraging my expertise in IT leadership, business acumen, and strategic planning, I will serve as a trusted advisor to our clients, helping them harness the full potential of technology to fuel growth, improve operational efficiency, and mitigate risks.

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

Global sales leader responsible for success of Cisco Catalyst Access portfolio solution positioning and enablement of Cisco.● Program managed cross functional requirements to align with customer needs. Responsible for sales enablement and campaigns to drive an annual $13bn switching product portfolio.● Lead sales enablement programs with on positioning and new product features including AI/ML, Software Defined Access (SDA), ISE, Thousand Eyes, application observability and other SW/HW features.● Drove Sales and Customer Success adoption growth utilizing diverse data sets to show targeting and relevance. Increased adoption renewal 80% over 3 year period.● Developed sales GTM strategy for Cloud infrastructure and security solutions. Coordinating features, development, and customer solution requirements.● Created data driven model and lead development of Tableau Dashboard enabling a focused motion that increased DNA Center adoption less than 500 active deployments to over 10,000 and managing over 10M devices, covering over 85% of Access RSW.● Evaluated and defined customer feature requirements for Catalyst Cloud monitoring and management. ● Delivered customer engagements, customer and partner roadshows presentations, and Demos.

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

● Providing global technical leadership and practice ownership for Security, Wireless, and Service Provider architectures.● Devise training plan for team including Security, ISE, Wi-Fi, SP Routing, Cable, Optical, Mobility and automation, software development & cloud.● Devise Programmability & Automation service offering for Cisco field sales and partners.● Building partnerships with other Cisco organizations like Advanced Services, Field Sales, Partner and DevNet to deliver customer solutions driving customer satisfaction.● Define strategic Software Proof-of-Value (POV) engagements & developed the base prototypes with latest developer platforms and tools – Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Python, Cisco APIs, etc. ● Worked with the BU and partner utilizing Ekahau to do remote Wireless planning allowing a more accurate estimation of AP requirements for a build of material. ● Leader in Meraki integration to Cisco sales and trained Security and Wireless teams on the Meraki solution. This was the first Cisco SE team providing Meraki Demos allowing for the proper positioning of the complete Cisco portfolio to customers.

Normal, Illinois, United States

● Defined data metrics and reporting of services for virtual system engineering. ● Developed requirements and established business process utilizing SalesForce Cases as a ticketing system. ● Defined new processes for all virtual systems engineering Case handling, RFP support and Wiki documentation.

Normal, Illinois, United States

● Visionary building virtual system engineering organization technology practices.● Global technology leader and practice owner for security and enterprise wireless solutions.● Stakeholder relationship and business development across field sales and engineering launching new service in 2 months.● Provided Operational Project Management launching Virtual services globally.

Normal, Illinois, United States

Systems Engineer Caterpillar Inc. Lead solution sells in Security, Mobility, Data Center, Collaboration and Video.

All Enterprise Product Pre-sales and some small SP support

Normal, Illinois, United States

Pre-sales Systems Engineering and Optical Engineer for IL across a wide range of technologies.

Normal, Illinois, United States

Lead IP Convergence Consultant focused on Service Provider infrastructures. Lead design teams for Ameritech and Sprint Local convergence solution designs and Beta trials. Lead Engineer responsible for designing entire CO infrastructure to an IP based design.

As a Systems Controller in the AF I was responsible for all communications that traversed or exited a base. I began working on IP and LAN infrastructures in 1990 and lead various design and deployments of technologies like IP, TDM, LAN, and WAN. I spent 3 years as a lead for Air Force training on networking technologies. My last position was as a AF Systems Networking Engineer responsible for designing the secure (SIPRNET) and non-secure (NIPRNET) IP infrastructures globally.I held an TS-SCI clearance while on active duty.

Mis, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer And Information Sciences, General