Global Director
Menlo Park, Ca, Us
Responsibilities•Global Practice Lead supporting Genesys voice-based solutions, from architecting through to install, configure, deploy, and testing. Led and served a multicultural/multigenerational team distributed across five continents, each with unique regional characteristics.•Managed a $25M plus revenue stream, 5 managers and 60 reports and executed on delivering quarterly utilization, exceeding targets three years running. •Owner Day-to-Day operation of the Practice and all project-based resources, responsible for onboarding, offboarding, partner engagement, ongoing training, development, and adherence to best practices on both Waterfall and Agile engagements.•Reported on progress to upper leadership in weekly cadence calls, identifying blockers, recognizing wins and course-correcting as needed. •Escalation Customer Advocate with customers at every level, reducing ambiguity and coordinating accelerated delivery exercises to make timelines and contain escalations- preserving customer loyalty and delivering on leadership commitments.•Networked with Product and Project Management, Engineering, Sales and Account Executives to foster ongoing dialogue and facilitate inter-departmental fluidity. Achievements•Certified in Microsoft Azure to lead by example winning customers to Cloud, either in entirety or in hybrid architectures. •Developed Bench with over fifty hires over the past decade, on a first-name basis with every single one.•Differentiated Management and Individual Contributors through mentoring, challenging and radical candor, embracing differences and modeling a coachable spirit.•Delivered on quarterly utilization targets while prioritizing team’s work/life balance and cultivating a positive team culture.•Facilitated the transformational change of focus to offshore teams to both capitalize on follow-the-sun time zones and improve margin.•Initiated the first internal Azure Cloud development lab for field resources.