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New York, Ny, Us

Stamford, Ct, Us

Providing cutting edge enterprise technology solutions that help solve the growing complex technology and communication needs of healthcare providers.

San Francisco, California, Us

My favorite part of being an Account Executive at SotOn is knowing that I get to provide robust tools to restaurants and retail businesses to help them achieve their goals. It impresses me how my company truly shows its Heart & Hustle on its sleeves.... literally! Being authentic, personable, and meaning what I say to each and every client is how I find value in my job every day.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

• Identified opportunity to provide affordable, quality centric VoIP routes for retail phone traffic to Africa for wholesale carriers; built and launched company to address market void. Built company from 0 - 35+ employees in under 2 years, while accelerating annual revenue from $0 - $16MM.• Hired and trained Sri Lankan based team of 1 General Manager, 2 Account Managers, 6 Billing Managers, and 27 Network Operation Technicians. Responsible for all hiring, retention, training, organizational structure, performance management and personal development.• Conceptualized, oversaw development and implementation of commercial software routing trading platform (GCS) used to manage business needs.• Using cross-cultural negotiation and management skills, cultivated relationships and strategic partnerships with overseas entrepreneurs and government agencies to develop infrastructure necessary to grow business.• Established relationships with global telecommunication carriers such as Telecom Italia, Belgacom, and IDT for originating retail phone traffic. Identified and developed local vendors in high-margin destinations such as Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Algeria to carry and terminate VoIP calls.• Responsible for overall financial security of the company; secured financing necessary to grow revenue and increase cash flow.

Purified Renewable Energy operates a 25 million gallon per year ethanol facility in Buffalo Lake, Minnesota.

New York, Ny, Us

Counseled leaders in the voice/data businesses on different market strategies for developing international wholesale carrier businesses.Gerson Lehrman Group Councils are industry- and discipline-focused networks of consultants, physicians, scientists, engineers, attorneys, market researchers and other professionals from around the world. GLG Council Members enable decision-makers at investment firms, corporations and non-profit organizations to better understand the products, services, companies, issues, and industries on which they focus

Newark, Nj, Us

● Qualified leads for building and deploying Net2Phone’s proprietary gateway switches in high margin international destinations for the purpose of terminating IDT's retail traffic.● Designed & coordinated network build outs for proprietary gateway switches.● Performed site surveys in Kuwait, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Jordan.● Primary customer liaison determining technical requirements & expectations from pre-sales to post-sales.● Worked with Engineering, Product Management and Operations to develop network designs.● Assisted Sales Executives in the preparation, delivery and review of sales proposals with prospects and clients.● Communicated customer feedback to Product Management for future product development.● Participated in service order kickoff meetings to ensure smooth service implementation.● Developed and delivered appropriate training materials for new products and new technology.● Represented Net2Phone at all investor and VoIP conferences demonstrating proprietary gatekeeper technology in Silicon Valley, Florida, Georgia, Sweden, Los Vegas, Hong Kong, and New York City.● Directly contributed to quarterly revenue goals of $80M+.

Newark, Nj, Us

● Built and ran IDT's first help desk.● Built and supported the LAN at IDT's first European office in London.● Worked with IDT's developers in deploying routing software on the carrier groups workstations.● Implemented rules and permissions for carrier sales on the buy/sell systems.● Responsible for onsite and offsite Oracle backup systems.● Identified bottleneck issues on the LAN and WAN & worked with router engineers in correcting issues.● Set up rules procedures for new employee workstation setups.● Contribute to network planning, engineering, architecture and deployment initiatives.● Provide input to improve processes and standards and to optimize the environment.● Planned & coordinated network maintenance with architects, engineers and operations teams.● Tracked & analyzed the commissioning and decommissioning of network assets.● Performed troubleshooting, fault isolation, and recovery of failed network components.● Served as the first point of escalation for our Network Operation Centers.

Political Science, Political Anthropology Of The Middle East

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