Michael Gaines Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Serving Southern Wisconsin And Northern Il

At FASTSIGNS of Kenosha, our mission is to help our existing and new customers improve their businesses within the Southern Wisconsin Community we serve. We achieve this by taking a consultancy approach around the customer's business needs. Projects usually begin with a business discussion followed by some design drafts, and additional discussion to tweak the final product to meet the customers goal. Everything truly revolves around our ability to first listen to our customers and from that discussion to craft Visual Communications graphics and text that achieve the desired and expressed goal of our customer.FASTSIGNS of Kenosha Serving all of Southern Wisconsin and parts of Northern IL, works with small and large business alike. Everyone that walks through our front door is a VIP!We are indeed "More than FAST and More than SIGNS!" If you're looking to improve your presence inside or out please call us to talk to one of our professional staff about your next project!

Business is not static, it's Dynamic and your IT infrastructure must be agile and flexible to meet the demands of today and tomorrow. Your IT infrastructure must address the reality of the business needs to continually improve service, manage risk and lower cost.At Forsythe I help customers truly realize the business value within IT.

Wi & Il

Promotion of IBM Enterprise Solutions. IBM Power Severs, Storage, and Services.*Attended Club as the Central state leader in revenue for SMB and profitability in 2008.(It was a blast in the Bahama's, Paradise Island Rocks!)

Arlington , Il

Responsible for building and maintaining Enterprise Relationships and growing enterprise sales for the company. Work closely with IBM, HP, HDS etc, to enable our ability to grow via enterprise solution offerings.

Milwaukee

Responsible for promoting and selling J2EE development, Work flow, and Portal software within the Wisconsin territory. J2EE product was an MDA based solution where UML models were used to generate working J2EE applications.

Develop and maintain alliances critical to our ability to turn key our supply chain solutions. Sell and promote enterprise systems, storage, Power, 3rd party dependent software, Radio Frequency goods, and services to implement.Initiatives I developed here contributed significantly to the revenue and growth of Irista and promoted higher degrees of customer satisfaction to our customers and business partners alike.

Waukesha, Wi

Maintained and developed business relationships critical for the firm to support growth via strategic relationships. Also handled all facilities, purchasing, & contract negotiations related to BP relationships and operational facility needs. Began my career working as a Configuration Consultant, where I maintained excellent relations with P&G a key account within the firm.Some of my achievments:>Played a lead role in salvaging our most valued client with configuration services.(Just good customer satisfaction skills enabled this!)>Generated incredible revenues/margin selling to my accounts>Developed and maintained excellent mutually beneficial relationships that either generated profit or added to the capabilities of our supply chain products.>Insured processes were installed and enforced regarding complimentary relationships that benefited our products and negotiated excellent terms for our inclusion of such goods within our portfolio.> Trusted advocate of Sr. Management to negotiate terms, pricing, with respect to all 3rd party alliances.> Resolved legal action via business discussion, saving the firm capital and time if legal actions proceeded. Resolved to mutual benefit of all parties.> In purchasing I drove down costs of facilities, negotiated the firm from a 750K cost to secure and move into a new facility in MN, to a $0K move in cost via leveraging existing landlord relationships. I also lowered the cost of all supplies, travel, rental cars, hotels, etc without sacrificing the quality of goods and services to our valued employees.RedPrairie is an excellent company, if you have the opportunity to work with them go for it. You are only limited by your own imagination and drive. Executive management here has always been outstanding and they will challenge you to grow!I owe a majority of my growth professionally to many key executives in this company to include CEO, CFO, VP of Configuration Services, IT staff, and many many others.

Waukesha, Wi

I managed all business development and partnerships that we're needed to promote the supply chain applications our company developed and sells. Strategic investments were made with select businesses to enhance and promote the strengths of our solutions. I also assumed general purchasing executive management responsibilities for the firm to help with operational expense controls saving the firm extensive revenues for other business ventures critical to the success of the company.

Atlanta, Ga & Brookfielld, Wi

Supported customer IT Systems , PDP; VAX Clusters; Storage: Printers; Tapes; and in fact nearly the entire Digital product line for external and internally focused accounts. Achieved highest levels of customer satisfaction within the territory. Dec Excellence Award winner 3 years in a row.Assisted in building the Digital Alpharetta Data Centers, worked with facilities management, IS/IT staff to develop processes, schedule moves, etc. without interrupting critical business systems. This was a multi year effort and all systems throughout DEC's 14 facilities were relocated under my supervision with Zero unscheduled downtime.Moved with DEC to Wisconsin in 1990, and maintained some of the most highly satisfied accounts in the state.

Bsba, Business Administration, 3.93 Gpa

Graduated with Academic Honors

Asee, Electrical Engineering & Electronics

Ibm, Servers, Storage, Dynamic Infrastructures

I currently hold the following Active IBM Certifications: IBM Power Sales IBM Power Technical IBM Storage IBM X & Blade Mastery IBM.

Asee, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, Awesome

2 year Tech school Electrical Engineering and Electronic