Mark Royko Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

Boston, MA, US

• As the Channels Operations practice development lead, I’m responsible for all programs relating to partner-enablement and practice development. An evangelist for the company’s products, I work to promote the platform.
• Developed and leads Acquia’s Practice Certification Program, which uses key metrics from sales and developer data to quantify partner delivery capabilities. The program rewards partners for achieving technical delivery.
• Created Acquia’s PAR Scoring system of partner evaluation, a single metric that summarizes partner’s core competencies and qualifications into a single metric. This measurement is a key component of Practice.
• Led efforts to revise partnership tiering levels based on objective metrics of partner performance. These efforts completely revise Acquia’s partnership program and expands the definition of partnership tiering to.
• Worked closely with organizational leads from Product Engineering, Sales, Professional Services,Marketing and Learning Services to expand the influence of Channels operations. Developed new partner enablement efforts.

Boston, MA, US

• Core contributor to all partner enablement efforts, working across internal teams to design and deliver technical training and certification requirements to all active partners.
• Created Acquia’s PAR Scoring system of partner evaluation, a single metric that summarizes partner’score competencies and qualifications into a single metric. This measurement is a key component ofPractice.
• Led efforts to revise partnership tiering levels based on objective metrics of partner performance. These efforts revided Acquia’s partnership program and expanded the definition of partnership tiering to include.
• Worked closely with organizational leads from Product Engineering, Sales, Professional Services,Marketing and Learning Services to expand the influence of Channels operations. Developed new partner enablement efforts.

Boston, MA, US

Worked with Acquia Partners and Acquia Sales teams to create Go To Market Plans, coordinate marketing activities, and evangelize Acquia product offerings. Mark is a trusted advisor to partners, helping to identify sales opportunities, coordinate marketing efforts, and build plans to maximize revenues and grow margins.

London, London, GB

• Led North American efforts to build a Drupal/Acquia practice team, resulting in several multi-year engagements for the company. As the technical practice lead, I developed playbooks for executing projects used globally.
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As Director of Technology, I work with clients in all phases of project development, from pre-sales to project hand off. I work to define project goals, oversee site architecture, manage development teams, contribute specialized code and help manage project resources. While I contribute code on a daily basis to ongoing projects, I also work with management.

Technical Architect tasked with designing functional solutions for client needs. Work with delivery teams including project managers, designers and fellow developers to deliver outstanding solutions with the Drupal CMS.

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Owner of independent web consultancy, specializing in Drupal system development and deployment. Responsible for all business processes, client development, project management, project staff recruitment, project delivery. Consulting responsibilities include server and system recommendations, application development, content management system integration.

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Pre-press technician responsible for data management, pre-press processing, film output, proofing (digital and traditional), color correction.Gained extensive knowledge of pre-press production and grew into client-facing role. Acted as liaison between technical staff, graphic designers and printers.

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Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism