As the CEO & Chief Technology Strategist at Liger Consulting, I'm passionate about empowering minority-owned and women-owned small and medium-sized businesses to thrive in the ever-evolving digital landscape. My mission is to help these businesses overcome technology challenges and unlock growth opportunities by implementing powerful, unified tech ecosystems tailored to their unique needs.My responsibilities include:Developing and executing strategic plans to drive sustainable growth and innovation for our clients.Overseeing the creation and implementation of the TechLeap program, which offers customized technology solutions and ongoing support for minority-owned and women-owned businesses.Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, partners, and industry stakeholders to ensure a deep understanding of their challenges and opportunities.Leading a talented team of technology experts dedicated to delivering exceptional service and results for our clients.Staying current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to ensure that Liger Consulting remains at the forefront of technology consulting and innovation.At Liger Consulting, we are committed to helping our clients transform their businesses through technology, enabling them to focus on what they do best and reach new heights of success.

Storytelling is our passion. Focused content & stellar visuals is what makes our work incomparable. We specialize in visual craftsmanship, quality content & creative storytelling.We provide full studio services to our clients. From video production to storytelling, we cover you, whatever your needs may be. Great work stems from great processes. And before we ever sit down to design anything, we dive deep into the ask. We outline the challenges and objectives, figuring out the best ways to connect to our audience. We consider social behaviors, trends and data to help inform our creative concepts

Foundation of the world is a 510(C)(3) nonprofit organization with a focus on improving the quality of education in socio-economically challenged communities with 5 - 29 age groups as the target demographics. Key responsibilities include:Working in partnership with the executive board to create the strategic five-year plan and implement new processes needed to run the organization

World Wide Sales Business Development Leader in Global Partner Organization creating global GTM "go to market" EN strategy in 5.4B SDWAN Market. Responsible for increasing Cisco's SD-WAN market share through channels by developing the global strategy and associated activities to build and enhance Cisco’s channel partner practices related to Enterprise Networking technologies. Those activities include competitive plays, routes to market, enablement, and the overall partner ecosystemDrive Non-SP MSP Partner SalesEstablish Support teamsGuide Geo Priorities for new PBDMsExpand RTMs via ngena & Complete CommunicationsLeading teams to implement commercial growth in various RTMs including digital marketplaces, incubating ideas, execution of campaigns and programs, working with internal stakeholders (segments, BU/BE and NDI). Creating and allocating investments in innovative GTM strategies in SDWAN Solutions to gain EN market share across the globe.

Responsible for planning and executing a plan to retire defined revenue goals against Cisco’s Security architecture and Cybersecurity solution set. Work alongside the account teams to identify customer opportunities as well as working with partners to increase sales in Security. Develop & execute an architecture specific territory plan to identify and capture profitable Cisco wallet share through understanding customer business outcomes and engaging appropriate resources. Drive incremental revenue through architecture specific education for business partners/stakeholders. Focused accounts: New architecture logos (named and non-named) Working with Sales and Marketing personnel to develop and build sales pipelineDeveloping and building sales pipeline through qualifying leads, cold prospecting and penetrating new accounts. Partnering with sales personnel to drive product/service revenue and achieve/exceed territory sales goals. Tracking current/potential customer interaction and drive progression of opportunities through the sales cycle. Lead generation and follow up activities based on prospecting, marketing events and inquiries. Goal Attainment:Finished FY19 at 90% (11.6M) to product goal with 11% YoY growth covering Greater Upstate & Atlantic Shore TerritoriesFinished FY18 at 100% (12.1M) to product goal with 36% YoY growth covering the East Territory Operation

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA R&S, Voice & DC) with practical knowledge of collaboration solutions and TCP/IP protocols including VDC, UCS, MDS, FCOE, VPC, VMware, ESXi, EIGRP, CUCM, CUC and CUPS responsible for co-leading service activation for key customer accounts across multiple regions worldwide valued approximately at $250M+. Key responsibilities include but not limited to the following.Responsible for on-boarding and training of new team members. Lead mentor for new hires responsible for professional development and engineering acumen growth over first 6 months - 1 year.Responsible for negotiation and maintenance of support contracts for Cisco and 3rd party vendors. Executed deployment and implementation of DCI circuits for Cisco and customer.Deploy and implement the management application platform and act as the lead service activation engineer on new customer accounts. This includes, optimizing network design to improve customer's operational efficiency and throughputProvide training for the management application platform to support engineers in customer's organization and drive adoption.Key customers include Verizon, American Express, Royal Bank of Scotland, CenturyLink & General Electric.

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA R&S, Voice & DC) with practical knowledge of collaboration solutions and TCP/IP protocols including VDC, UCS, MDS, FCOE, VPC, VMware, ESXi, EIGRP, CUCM, CUC and CUPS responsible for co-leading service activation for key customer accounts across multiple regions worldwide valued approximately at $250M+. Key responsibilities include but not limited to the following. Deploy and implement the management application platform and act as the lead service activation engineer on new customer accounts. This includes, optimizing network design to improve customer's operational efficiency and throughputProvide training for the management application platform to support engineers in customer's organization and drive adoption.Provides end to end support, implementation and deployment (including operational readiness testing and transfer of information) expertise on Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Unified Computing Virtualization (UC &UCS) including VMware (VSphere 5.0) and Collaboration technologies, CUPS (Cisco Unified Present Server) and UCC (Unified Contact Center)Performs management configuration and deployment of Cisco ASA (5000 series), ASR (5000 Series), Catalyst (2000 & 3000 series) and Nexus (7000, 5000, 1000)Serves as SME who collaborates with Cisco partner to improve management application platform design, use, and performance to dictate changes to Managed Voice existing customers’ platforms.Key customers include Verizon, American Express, Royal Bank of Scotland, CenturyLink & General Electric.

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA R&S, Voice & DC) within the Cisco Cloud Management and Services organization with proven knowledge of network design, incident management skills, experience with high availability environment with 99.99% SLA and customer support experience. Key responsibilities included but not limited to the following: Effectively utilized moderately complex lab setups to duplicate and solve product and network problems of high complexity and provided basic systems/product training and intellectual property material.Acted as a focal point with the customer for account network problem resolution by troubleshooting malfunctions of hardware and software applications, telephones and security systems to resolve operational issues and restore services while building rapport, fostering trust and improving relations.Utilized the Management Application Platform to proactively, reactively and retroactively fix customers issues.Troubleshoot issues with 3750, 3560, 6500 series Cisco switches, Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Unified Computing Virtualization (UC &UCS) including VMware (VSphere 5.0) and Collaboration technologies & CUPS (Cisco Unified Present Server).

Performed corrective functions of full flight simulators, flight training devices, cockpit procedure trainers and associated support devices in order to meet the requirements of the pilot and maintenance training departments. Corrected identified discrepancies by troubleshooting electronic, hydraulic, visual and mechanical systems. Utilized simulator software utilities to troubleshoot simulator system discrepancies. Then created and/or changed simulator systems through Linux and C.

Designed and tested multimedia systems, web-based applications, and human-computer interfaces to support the distributed design and research teams developing distance-learning solutions.

Ran programs for campers and directed camp personnel. Assisted the Executive Director with oversight and management of day-to-day programs, personnel and financial affairs of the organization. Worked with the executive director to ensure organizational development and growth according to the strategic plan.