Scott Oakes Email & Phone Number

Mcleansville, Nc, Us

Elon University, Elon, Nc

Lecturer of Management, Entrepreneurship, Marketing , and Sales. I have taught Introduction to Business, Innovative Business Tools, Professional Selling, Marketing Principles, and Information Systems.

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Manager of North American Point of Sale products and our growing Food Service solutions.

Manage proudct engagements and innovation initiatives for customers in the convenience fuel retail market segment. Support sales team in strategic engagements, POS conversions, Food Service implementations, and Retail Upselling opportunities. Manage and facilitate field trial initiatives and customer requirements to optimize deployments. Continue to act as Subject Matter Expert on several product offerings and previous dutires required as Manager of POS User Community and Professional Services position.

Creation of User Community encompassing all Gilbarco POS customers and distributors throughout United States and Canada. Use of Social Media outlets such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube to create an outlet to communicate effectively with POS User Community. Facilitated monthly webinars, regional product training, quarterly training classes, marketing newsletters, tradeshow booth management, and yearly technology conferences. Open Innovation Leader for integration of Gilbarco products with other third party partners. Creation of Marketing collateral to publicize and gain acceptance for these initiatives. Acted as POS expert for the support of the national sales team for the purpose of answering customer's questions compliance requirements, product functionality, and system infrastructure. Participated in product roadmap teams, POS hardware evaluation teams, corporate Kaizen events, net-promoter initiatives, and overall product Policy Deployment objectives.

Software Engineering background with Masters of Business Administration. Managed multiple software development projects with severl Fortune 100 companies. Currently serves as techncial Interface with National Retail Systems Sales force to help implement convenience store Point of Sale Solutions

Supported National sales team in selling a Retail Point of Sale touchscreen system to over 20,000 convenience retail locations across North America. Facilitated national trade show demonstrations of product, developed product training DVDs and YouTube videos, led multiple customer and sales training sessions both in live venues and virtual environments. Facilitated training for PCI compliance initiatives across the United States. Acted as technical expert for sales team and liaison to Marketing and Engineering development teams. Awarded Circle of Excellence award by Gilbarco Executive team due to efforts in this

Assisted in commercial development initiatives. Participated in Market analysis, Research and Development of new products, and Voice of the Customer surveys. Primary contact for ExxonMobil overseeing Point of Sale software development. Duties included commercial contract negotiations, global requirements gathering, liaison to global support centers, and administrator to software development initiatives.

responsible for the marketing of a three-tier Windows NT/XP Point of Sale system for the convenience store market. Duties included requirements gathering, product demonstrations to customers, supporting and training international sales force, formulating market strategies and promotions, and developing the infrastructure to release software product to a distribution chain.

Project Leader responsible for development of three-tier web-based application that serviced Emergency Card Replacement for American Express. Responsible for requirements gathering, project leadership, production support, rollout planning, and customer support

Project Leader responsible for development of three-tier web-based application that serviced Emergency Card Replacement for American Express. Responsible for requirements gathering, project leadership, production support, rollout planning, and customer support.

Software engineer developer and project leader for Point of Sale Device

Mba, Marketing

Masters in Business Administration

Ba, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Student Government, Alpha Chi, ACM President, Omicron Delta Kappa, Collegiathon Team, Honors ProgramStudent.