Matthew Ricks Email & Phone Number

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Over 25 years experience providing complex IT solutions for small, medium and enterprise clients; including strategizing and consulting with clients focusing on Information Technology hardware, software and services. I work as part of team that has the ability to listen with the intent to understand. Our team has an acute understanding of the time it takes to relate with clients and prospects at multiple levels. We take the time to learn client hierarchies. We have the ability to leverage relationships externally with their supply chain partners. We have the aptitude to excel at penetrating deep and wide within small, large and enterprise-sized accounts and developing personal, solid, and profitable business partnerships.

Initiated and closed sales for a leading supplier of information technology solutions;Built and expanded customer base within the Chicago Region territory;Developed relationships with key decision-makers and matched clients with the right solutions for their needs;Expanded knowledge of software and hardware products to use as leverage in the sales cycle;Frequently mentored new hires on sales best practices and strategy

Managed a full team of approximately 20 employees in 2 franchise retail store locations. I was accountable for all hiring, training, firing, purchasing & sales.

Worked as Counselor and youth worker at Spectrum Youth and Family Services in Schaumburg, IL specializing in a program for youth - ages 12-19. Primarily with teens who are behaviorally at-risk of problem-related police contact. Services included individual group cousneling sessions ranging from anger-management, social skills, character and job readiness skills. We included individual and family counseling; and often included community-service work, if required by the police, peer juries or the juvenile court.

Bachelors, Social Work, Sociology

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Finished general course study and played baseball for two years before transferring to University of Iowa.

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