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Loves Park, Il

Ticomix fuses industry-best practices with award-winning technologies to provide premiere technology solutions to small- to midsize businesses around the country in the areas of networking, data backup/recovery, customer relationship management, service desk management and a host of other customized software and hardware solutions. Ticomix also sells and supports leading technology brands such as Microsoft, Xerox and Dell, and is a Cisco Premier Certified Partner. For more information, please call me at 815-847-3421 or visit http://www.ticomix.com/about to watch a short company bio video

Greater Chicago Area

Voxox, Rockford, IL (2013 to 2014)Headquartered in San Diego, CA. Markets SIP Trunking and Hosted IP PBX to SMBs through dealer channel. Provides Carrier Services to Call Centers.Recruited to open and direct Dealer Channel. Fully responsible for customer support and approaching and closing contracts with PBX vendors to certify for adding to equipment• Introduced SIP Trunking and Hosted IP PBX to Avaya, Toshiba and NEC Telecom Dealers.• Implemented SIP interoperability to the Toshiba Telecom platform.• Successfully added producing dealers from the Avaya, Toshiba and NEC dealer program.• Negotiated Spiff Program for the NEC SV8100 and SV8300.

Greater Chicago Area

Telecommunications contractor. Offers Business Telecommunications Systems and maintenance, Hosted IP PBX, Network Services, and Video Surveillance equipment to SMBs.Hired, trained and managed sales team. Company was not offering network services resulting in lost sales. In 2009, negotiated with a Master Agent representing 40 providers. Successfully increased sales over the next 24 months.Created new marketing collateral and brochure.Successfully launched newsletter and blog. Gained Expert Author status with Ezine @rticles. All managed sales representatives were meeting or exceeding quota.Negotiated strategic alliances with multiple network service providers.Trained staff on application selling.Added additional telephone system hardware platforms, Allworx and Star2Star, into portfolio. Added Toshiba, Aerocont and Pelco surveillance products to portfolio. Sold 90 camera system with redundant 96 terabyte drives to food manufacturer.

Greater Chicago Area

Offered Toshiba America and NEC America Business Telephone Systems to authorized channel. Other products included Sonexis Call Conferencing Equipment, Teleco Voice Processors and IPitomy VoIP PBX. Channel Manager of 58 dealer channel over 18-state region driving market penetration and adding dealers. Trained sales reps on all products. Business-critical initiatives included sales, training and technical expertise. Added new dealers in areas where we needed better market penetration. Trained new sales people on the productsLaunched new Hosted IP Services, IP Trunking and Asterix-based IP communications platform. Successfully closed 6 new dealers.

Greater Chicago Area

Designs and manufactures network cabling and coupling devices for the telecom and data industries. Fully responsible for Verizon, Cable and Wireless and Windstream accounts. Drove and increased sales of telecommunication products to designated channel. Designed and marketed value-added solutions to Distribution Partners, MSOs, Telecom Equipment Manufacturers and Fortune 500 end-users.Conducted meetings with Toshiba dealers to design a wire harness to reduce costs, lower installation time and lower return visits to customer sites after installation. Successfully prototyped and launched.Designed cable and block kits for Avaya, Northern Telecom and Toshiba to lower costs and reduce downtime during installation. Negotiated with large vendors for best practices approach to increase sales and revenue through streamlining the order and payment process.

Greater Chicago Area

Telecommunications System Division. Sold Toshiba Business Telephone Systems, Call Processing Equipment, Automatic Call Distributors (ACD) and Voice Documentation software to authorized dealer network in the U.S.Increased market penetration of authorized Toshiba Telecom dealers in a 21 state channel. Coordinated with Channel Sales Managers to target specific markets, prospect viable candidates and identify benefits of partnering with Toshiba to market their suite of Unified Communications and Call Center platforms.Received Eagle Award for top performer in division FY03B with quota attainment exceeding 140%.Recruited 46 new dealers in a two year period. New dealers generated over $6.6M in purchases, 6% of the Division’s revenue.

Greater Chicago Area

Managed a select fourteen dealer channel focusing on the sales, marketing and implementation of the Strata CS, an open standards server based telephone system designed by Vertical Networks. Conducted seminars for both dealers and end user prospects.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Directed a three state channel in southwestern United States, consisting of nine major accounts encompassing forty-two dealerships to market the Centagram Voice Processing systems and Baypoint Innovations Unified Messaging platform. Trained and supported dealerships while achieving quota.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Managed a nine state channel encompassing 55 dealers and 150 dealer offices to market Toshiba America Telecom Systems, Call Processing Systems, Call Center and Voice Documentation Solutions. Provided dealer support, acquisition and training while consistently achieving quota.

Greater Chicago Area

Created and presented a curriculum of training to sales people of the authorized dealer channel in a sixteen state region. Conducted systems configuration training, product training, consultative sales application training and basic sales skills for new and experienced sales people. Presented both on site and multiple day sessions with up to 100 in attendance.