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Little Rock, Ar, Us

Alpharetta, Ga, Us

• Co-founded the consulting company that would become StormWood Technologies• Built this start-up telecommunications technology systems integrator into $4M to $6M / year business. • Responsible for creating and updating the business plan to help guide the business. • Complete forecasting, P&L and reporting responsibility for the organization • Managed 20 Employees in 5 states.• Negotiated contracts with 100’s of customer engagements• Project Management experience including 100+ Customers, some in almost every vertical market, multiple sites, international locations, multiple hardware and software vendors, primarily ShoreTel and Extreme Networks, multiple carriers / providers • Projects consisted of combinations of Networking, Software Deployment, Unified Communications, Contact Centers, Mobility and Video Conferencing deployments in on-premises and cloud-based solutions • Lead engineer experience with the same types of deployments described above. Responsible for documenting customer requirements, holding call flow planning meetings, configuring hardware and software, providing customized training, cutting over to new system and possibly new carrier(s), testing and support. • As a Solutions Architect, conducted numerous seminars, discovery sessions, and customer demonstrations to define business objectives and architect technical solutions that provided the lowest total cost of ownership. For larger opportunities, created TCO analysis reports factoring in customer provided data (labor costs, WACC, other actual costs) and third party industry standard information. Created custom proposals and responses and presented the solution to the customer. • Negotiated and finalized sale of business in early 2015 to our largest competitor

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• Brought on board as sole member of the new Professional Services group for the Southeast Region. Worked with counterparts in the other regional and corporate locations to establish procedures, terms and conditions, marketing information, job descriptions, tracking and reporting tools, and hardware and software tool kit definition.• Responsible for a team consisting of 3 Professional Services managers and approximately 20 billable resources spread out over a 10 state Southeast Region• Responsibilities included creation and management of the business plan (including personnel, resource, and revenue forecasting), salary planning and overall personnel management of the region. • As a Solutions Architect, I was responsible for pre-sales presentations, solution design and proposal creation in support of the sales team• Project types have included custom Spectrum network management consulting and implementations, multi-site WAN and LAN installations, integrating new active electronics (including routers, switches, firewalls, and other servers) with existing networks, network analysis and baselining, and custom network consulting and troubleshooting. • As a Solutions Architect, I was responsible for pre-sales presentations, solution design and proposal creation in support of the sales team. • Project management responsibilities for seven state region for both technical and business issues, assisted in pre-sales new business development, customer qualification, custom proposal generation, project planning, risk and opportunity assessment. In addition to contract and scope change management, materials acquisition, resource loading, performance monitoring, budget and deadline constraints, subcontractor management, acceptance testing, and customer satisfaction.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

* Managed team of engineers and site managers responsible for many wide area network designs, as well as high-speed, redundant, campus network designs and multiple site network implementations, concentrating primarily on Honeywell’s Manufactured Goods vertical market.* Overall project management and technical responsibility for two multi-million dollar network implementation projects and numerous smaller network projects* As a Project Manager, I was responsible for many business and technical project aspects such as pre-sales consulting, risk and opportunity assessment, proposal generation, contract and scope change management, materials acquisition, project plan creation, resource loading, performance monitoring, budget and deadline constraints, subcontractor management, acceptance testing, and customer satisfaction. Responsible for monthly project reviews of all projects to assure budget, deadline, and customer satisfaction goals were being met. * As a Solutions Architect, I was responsible for gathering detailed information from the client, through both empirical observations and detailed interviews, accurately assessing this information to determine the best solution for the customer’s needs, and reviewing this information with the customer. And then turning this information into a detailed assessment or design, as well as final delivery and presentation to the customer.* As a Manager, I had personnel management responsibilities for 10-12 Network Engineers and Network Infrastructure Site Managers, including performance and salary appraisals, personal development plan creation, and process flow definition and documentation.* Lead Estimator on multi-million dollar customer network projects. These projects would consist of various combinations of infrastructure installations network integration (primarily active electronic configuration and server and desktop installation and migration), and network engineering (primarily network design and consulting).

Forsyth, Ga, Us

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Information Systems

Engineer’S Degree, Bachelor Of Computer Engineering, Minor In Economics

High School