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Santa Clara, California, Us

Portworx is a leading provider of storage and data management solutions for containerized applications, specifically within Kubernetes environments. We excel in assisting businesses in efficiently managing, securing, and scaling their data across various infrastructure setups. Portworx's platform simplifies storage tasks like provisioning, backup, and disaster recovery, ensuring the smooth operation of critical applications.GTM America's West Leader across the 12 Western United States plus West Canada and LATAM. Hire, train, and lead a team of senior sales professionals focused on the Portworx technology. Develop and drive a strategy to deliver record revenue growth in the West.

After many years of dedicated work in technology sales at the highest levels, I decided to take time to recharge, refocus, and pursue personal interests. This break has been an opportunity for me to gain new perspectives, enhance my skill set, and ultimately return to the workforce with renewed energy and enthusiasm. I look forward to staying connected and exploring new opportunities in the spring of 2024. Thank you for your ongoing support and understanding.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Citrix creates technology that makes the world’s apps and data secure and easy to access, empowering people to work anywhere and at any time. A strong and vibrant culture of more than 9,000 people around the world united by a shared mission: to build the world’s best integrated technology services for organizations navigating digital business.Hired to rebuild the Southwest region and get back on track for growth. 1st year resulted in over 90% year over year growth and record revenue performance. 2nd year finished 130% of plan and awarded Circle of Excellence. 2022 finished over 130% and again qualified for Circle of Excellence. Total revenue growth over last 4 years is 3X.

Santa Clara, California, Us

DataStax delivers a comprehensive data management layer with a unique always-on architecture that accelerates the ability of enterprises, government agencies, and systems integrators to power the exploding number of cloud applications that require data distribution across datacenters and clouds, by using our secure, operationally simple platform built on Apache Cassandra. Hired to build the Western Area for Field Operations and Sales in the America's by recruiting top talent, putting together go to market plans and achieving 40% YOY Growth.

San Jose, California, Us

NetApp Ranks as "Best Company To Work For"​ by FORTUNE Magazine. A $7B company that creates innovative storage, software and data management solutions both is private, public and hybrid cloud environments that help customers achieve outstanding cost efficiency. Dedicated to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made NetApp one of the fastest-growing and most sought after storage, data management and cloud technology providers globally. As a 2nd and 3rd line Senior Sales and Go-To-Market Leader , responsibilities included establishing sales objectives and developing high impact strategies to meet a high growth $350M revenue target by leading a team of 6 District and Global Account Managers and approximately 150 Sales, Systems Engineering, Professional Services, Channels, Marketing and Financial Services Personnel in the Enterprise and Industry Vertical Markets in the Western Region. Recognized as NetApp's "Director of the Year"​ for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011 and "Top Western Region" FY 2013.

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

Winthrop Resources is an emerging financial services and business consulting company who provides strategic funding solutions for HW, Enterprise Software and Consulting Services to medium and large sized companies throughout the United States. Winthrop is a recognized leader and Innovator in the high-tech Financial Services space. Hired to help build and ramp up a high-performance sales culture and position Winthrop for accelerated top-line revenue growth. Manage and lead a team of senior sales professionals including RSD's, Senior Reps and BDR's across 16 western states and 4 area sales offices.

Hired to recruit, build and manage a team of nine senior sales managers selling ERP, CRM, SCM, and HRMS enterprise software to Peoplesoft’s largest strategic customers and prospects in the Western Region. Responsible for Sales Leadership across the 13 Western States.

Austin, Texas, Us

Hired to recruit, train, direct and motivate a 10 member senior sales team, consisting of geographically assigned District Sales Managers. Responsible for a $25M revenue budget across the Southwest Region selling both enterprise wide and hosted applications. Target new business development in the $250M to $1B market segment and up-sell existing customer install base.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

A member of IBM’s Senior Management Team. Manage IBM’s Retail CPG vertical in Western US. Provide sales leadership over a $275M revenue budget, 100-person team of geographic sales managers, inside and field sales reps, hardware/software specialists, and service/consulting specialists selling IBM’s full suite of Hardware, Software and Service offerings.

Bachelors Of Science, Business Management

Executive Leadership Program