Preston Ridley Email & Phone Number

Plano, Texas, Us

As the co-founder of Socialsales.io, I spearheaded the development of a cutting-edge global sales enablement and content distribution platform that redefines how sales and marketing teams engage with their audiences. Our mission is to empower sales reps with the tools they need to excel in today’s fast-paced digital and social selling landscape.Socialsales.io equips sales teams with a dynamic, user-friendly platform that allows them to learn, discover, present, engage, and share on-brand content seamlessly across all digital and social channels. Our intuitive mobile app and real-time analytics provide reps with the insights necessary to have meaningful, relevant conversations with customers. This leads to not just increased sales, but also improved customer satisfaction.Our platform is designed to support global sales teams, offering solutions in over 100 countries and 20 languages. From new recruits to seasoned experts, Socialsales.io provides the right content at the right time, helping sales teams close more deals and drive business growth.

Frisco, Tx, Us

As the Director of Software Development and reporting directly to the CEO, I was responsible for all software systems and solutions, both packaged and custom developed. Responsibilities & Achievements• Fostered the creation of an offshore Korea development team, leveraging existing resources for a global support team and increased cost savings. • Negotiated vendor and consulting contracts to meet budgetary needs while remaining aligned to business requirements and deliverables.• Led the creation of the 5 year technology roadmap to transition from a full vendor supported model to an in house software development team designed to support the future growth of the business. • Regularly provided technology updates to the executive team and board members during quarterly meetings. • Championed a cloud architecture strategy based on Microsoft Azure and leveraging services such as: Redis Cache, Azure DocumentDb, Cloud services, Web apps, as well as other IaaS and SaaS technologies.• Spearheaded the mobile initiative at GP based on a hybrid Cordova/PhoneGap platform leveraging the Ionic framework and AngularJs. • Implemented a continuous delivery software model based on Team City and Octopus Deploy to improve team efficiency and quality.• Standardized the automated testing requirements of the SDLC leveraging Jasmine, Karma, PhantomJs, MSTest and Gulp.• Developed the enterprise RESTful API using ASP.NET WebApi 2, Swagger and Oauth2.0 for security. The API utilized the OWIN standards and Kantana components for self-hosting and easy deployment to the cloud.

Addison, Tx, Us

• Worked with executive leadership to plan, prioritize and estimate future projects. • Led and mentored a large distributed team of 50+ developers worldwide. • Appointed to the Digital & Technology Exchange Council by the CIO. Members included leaders across all of IT & Marketing.

• Social network for educators consisting of blogs and a resource marketplace.• Sold to The Educator’s Network Inc. in November of 2012.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Bachelor Of Science In Computer Science