Kyle Taylor Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

TechMill is a non-profit focused on supporting the local tech and startup community here in Denton. For the past few years, I've organized dozens upon dozens of events ranging from casual weekly meetups, educational workshops, and annual conferences and social mixers. I handle anything from spinning up new websites, design collateral, social media, and managing the event calendar.

San Francisco, California, Us

An award-winning Principal Sales Engineer with a proven track record in open source and web architecture, securing technical wins for prospects evaluating platforms for Drupal or WordPress, and conducting technical discovery meetings with prospects. I perform deep-dive analyses into technical and business requirements, and quickly build trust with clients through consultative approaches, bridging the gap between technical and non-technical teams.Key Responsibilities:- Lead technical discovery with prospects to understand their Drupal/WordPress infrastructure needs.- Perform platform demonstrations using the Demo2Win method, addressing client pain points and showcasing platform capabilities.- Develop proof-of-concept prototypes, including site migration, performance audits, multisite deployment systems, CI/CD tooling, and application code debugging.- Serve as the primary contact for security questionnaires and vendor assessments in the procurement process.Notable Projects and Initiatives:- Traffic Overage Reporting Dashboard (2019): Led the development of a Google Data Studio dashboard to provide in-depth traffic analysis for customers exceeding their traffic limits.- Outbound Account Intelligence (2020-2023): Initiated and developed a serverless app for sales prospecting, which was later adopted as an official internal product.- Sales Engineering Slackbot (2023): Rebuilt an abandoned tool into Google Cloud Run, integrating AI functionalities for operational efficiency.Achievements:- Recipient of the Sales Engineer of the Year award in 2020 and 2021.- Instrumental in generating $30M in Net New ARR since 2019.- Awarded the Golden Pagoda for both personal and team achievements.Skills and Strengths:- Exceptional ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and tools.- Proficient in translating complex technical concepts into understandable terms for non-technical stakeholders.- Strong background in Drupal development and solutions architecture.

San Francisco, California, Us

Copenhagen, Denmark, Dk

Serving as a client-facing role at FFW, I support the sales and delivery teams on new client engagements through scoping, estimating, and consulting on qualified sales leads for FFW’s services. As a Solutions Architect, I work with pre-sales client leads to capture and translate their business and functional requirements into technical architecture documentation for estimating. I work with the sales lead to develop the proposals and sales presentations, and write up contracts for client negotiations.In addition to pre-sales support, I consult with active clients on new and existing projects, serving as a general technologist supporting various areas of development - new discovery and architecture documentation for Drupal and WordPress, site and performance audits, devops and continuous integration, reporting and analytics, overall site improvements and recommendations, and others.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

I organize and assist running Startup Weekend events all over the world, including marketing, sponsor conversations, event logistics, and promote through networking and social media channels.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Develop custom modules, features, and themes for our client websites built on top of the Drupal content management system. Everything from backend/frontend development to releasing the code up to production environments such as Rackspace, Pantheon, Acquia, etc.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Worked on various low-level features on client sites, as well as start recording screencasts over various Drupal modules.

We create whiteboard stickers for your laptop, smartphones, tablets... and pretty much anything else you want to put a whiteboard on.

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I curate a newsletter that includes startup/tech events going on in the DFW area, while spotlighting upcoming startup companies and local engagements the community can get involved with.

- Assisted with general facility operations, employee scheduling, handling performance checks, selling products, and responding directly to customer-related issues.- Experience with point-of-sale systems and credit card processing systems.- Created new projects to improve business functionality by organization and customer relations.- Repaired intricate paintball equipment using a variety of tools.- Performed manual labor and construction such as operating a scissor-lift and repairing/replacing broken fluorescent light ballasts.- Helped create a green screen studio for online advertisements.- Developed flash applications to integrate the green screen technology and demonstrate it visually on websites (ex. www.Gatsplat.com, www.Scubatoys.com/forum.asp).

Denton, Tx, Us

- Worked on various improvement projects:-- Updated and created a new SharePoint Help Desk and FAQ to effectively deliverinformation to users and site owners using HTML/CSS/JavaScript.-- Created user-friendly video tutorial manager using HTML/CSS/JavaScript.-- Designed simple and effective ways to implement in-house ticketing system- Gained additional experience integrating with InfoPath 2010

Create and design custom t-shirts of all types, create and design custom vinyl decals for windows and general uses.

- Helped deploy over 600 Windows 7 PCs to replace XP machines.- Performed troubleshooting to find solutions for outdated software and Office 2010 programs.- Documented technical installation procedures after testing applications for future support.- Completed customer service requests and incidence reports.- Performed PC inventory for upcoming audit using HP Asset Manager to manage asset information.- Experience with Microsoft SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) and Active Directory.

- Assisted with domestic and international orders by phone and email.- Completed online orders for shipping and helped in-store customers.- Confirmed products before boxing final orders for processing and shipping.- Created custom value product packages that increased sales and revenue.- Evaluated store inventory to add unavailable products to online inventory.- Created flash advertisements for posting on a worldwide scuba diving forum, Scubaboard.com.- Completed Standard, Nitrox and Rescue Scuba certifications.