I am recognized as a practiced thought leader, having presented industry trends and best practices at seminars, user groups, industry conferences, and through Board of Director guidance. My consulting expertise focuses on strategic selling and planning, market evaluations, and more.I have enjoyed over 30 years of leadership and tangible success in Sales, Sales Management and Business Development, including Alliance, Reseller and System Integrator Partner Relations. I have worked with Fortune 100 – 1000 corporations doing business globally to ensure that my clients, C-levels and technical staff alike, and partners consistently achieve, if not surpass, their business objectives. It’s the building of trust-based relationships that has become my hallmark. My business partners understand that I will only propose financial solutions that will increase their efficiency, their image as being cutting-edge, and their bottom line. Because of the relationship that we share, I am honored that business partners continually recommend me and the products I represent.I’ve had the privilege to work in the telecom, customer management, wireless, financial services and technology manufacturing industries, as well as the government sector. My decades of experience have yielded deep and robust technical expertise, spanning an array of solutions-based applications for Data Integration, Customer Relationship Management, Web Enablement, Speech Recognition, Contact Center, and Internet Protocol. Pivotal to my ongoing success is my ability to offer clients leading-edge, innovative solutions from CRM to data access and management to voice and speech to telecommunications, including cloud-based, SaaS and Social Media solutions.Specialties• Thought leadership in industry best practices and trends• Accelerating business acquisition to achieve record profits• Delivering leading-edge, innovative solutions and superlative results• Securing global OEM, private label and strategic partner business• Establishing new private and government sector markets• Business-generating alliance, reseller and integrator partnerships• Winning, innovative Sales and Marketing strategy• Consistently exceeds target objectives512-656-5099mikekirkaustin@gmail.com