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San Diego, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Provided funding, strategy, sales, marketing, and IT systems to develop enhancements to current intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems for military, law enforcement, and disaster response agencies utilizing predictive algorithms, artificial intelligence, and real-time crowd-sourced information to identify, track and notify people of danger while guiding them to safety. Patents are in lease negotiations.

San Diego, California, Us

Provided funding, strategy, sales, marketing, logistics support and IT systems to develop and deploy HALO Structures, the world’s first solar powered, fully automated telescoping building to provide instantaneous storage or shelter in any setting or circumstance around the globe. Patents are in lease negotiations.

Provided funding, guidance, sales, marketing, and support to deliver managed cloud IT services utilizing top tier IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions from Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and many other data center options including co-location throughout multiple regional and global data centers to support geo-redundant architecture ensuring guaranteed uptime. Open Virtual Desktop evolved into Geo Redundant, and both companies were merged into Access IT Solutions LLC, and provided the most complete IT solutions stack for SMB to have the same capabilities as enterprises. Cloud solutions incorporated remote servers, remote desktops, client apps, mobile apps, and everything in between. This included website and mobile app development, technology consulting, management, monitoring, cyber security and compliance-auditing for all hardware, software, and mobile devices and everything else required in IT. Contracts sold and the company dissolved.

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

• Over 120% of sales quota in the first month.• Over 200% of sales quota in the second month.• Over 600% of sales quota in the third month.• Promoted to Sales Manager in the fourth month.• Implemented new CRM to streamline activities such as sales tracking, and fraud prevention, significantly reducing time lost to fraudulent sales, accounting chargebacks and provisioning.• Promoted to VP of Business Development in the second year.• Increased the company's revenue by 24% during the recession.• Increased new customer acquisition by 300% directing a redesign of entirely new brand, website, paid advertising campaigns and organic SEO strategy resulting in page-1 organic results on key terms.• Spearheaded the implementation and sales of multiple public, private and hybrid cloud computing solutions including Microsoft System Center, VMware, Abiquo, CA/3tera’s AppLogic, OnApp and Morphlabs' mCloud and moved company into cloud hosting provider space, increasing customer base and reducing churn due to cloud migration.• Increased Microsoft sales by 30% in under one year by launching a dedicated MS team and establishing a partnership with Microsoft collaborating on numerous initiatives, including the pre-launch of WebMatrix, SQL Server 2012, and System Center 2012, as well as deploying hosted and managed Windows Remote Desktop Service.• Created and delivered presentations at IT conferences including Cloud Expo in Silicon Valley and Cloud Expo East in New York, Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, and others in Los Angeles, Seattle, Orlando, and San Diego.• Co-launched Intel’s initial Core technology in 2009, collaborating with Intel’s Director of Marketing.• Collaborated with the team on SSAE-16, SAS-70, SOC, and HIPAA research, preparations, and audits and achieved compliance on all then added new high-security clients as a result.• Converted top customers into partners and assisted them from funding, to launch and acquisition up to $100M.

Austin, Texas, Us

Sold Windows and Linux servers and clusters, website design and application development.• Always in the top 10% of sales after the first year.• Wrote the technical documents and SOW to sell the largest web development project in the history of the company for $90,000 when the average sale was $1,500 - $3,000, then coached the web team on the development of the web app.• Awarded for the company's highest revenue increase year over year out of over 150 sales people worldwide.• Initiated Product Development position, collaborating with top clients, enhancing our shared goals and increasing ARPU.

Rebuilt and managed a declining sailing yacht charter business after the passing of the owner.• Doubled the size of the fleet by partnering with private boat owners, converting their recreational expenses into business income.• Increased paying members by organizing corporate team building sailing regattas, boat shows, and other public events, thereby increasing exposure and reach.• Increased revenue significantly by building a new website and applying organic SEO strategies attracting new students and converting them to paying members and boat owners, adding to the size of the fleet.• Managed the acquisition from the franchise to the parent corporation on behalf of the beneficiary.

Assessed partners’ existing business processes, systems and content, and then migrated them into Earnware’s Business Center SaaS CRM/Unified Messaging cloud system with integrated phone, fax, virtual PBX system, e-mail, calendar, messaging, events, tasks, reminders, and group policy file manager, enabling completely automated online sales. Wrote SOP for the partner onboarding process and then implemented the SOP as a template in our SaaS system enabling automated provisioning of future partners and conducted the training classes. This N-Tier system enabled franchisees to simply replicate proven sales strategies for their own products and add more franchisees in their downline.