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Irvine, Ca, Us

My team and I work with all the Orange County companies who run United Way Campaigns to help the needs of Orange County residents. If these corporations have remote employees we help them support their local communities as well. We are also leading the digital transformation of Philanthropy by selling Salesforce Philanthropy Cloud to any company in Southern Ca. This easy to use platform is a cloud based solution that automates Corporate Social Responsibility for companies. We partner with Salesforce.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Digital transformation across every industry, including Philanthropy, is real. United Way recently launched the "Next Generation" giving platform in conjunction with Salesforce.org. This Cloud solution is easy to use and simplifies our ability to communicate real time community needs that exist in Orange County. This tool makes it easy to donate, volunteer, manage grants, and much more. It resides on your employees desktop or mobile device. Take your companies corporate social responsibilities to the next level by providing a platform that energizes your employees! Remember Doing Good is good business!

Irvine, Ca, Us

We fight for the Education, Income, Health and Housing of all families in Orange County, California. #United4OC. The community goals set for 2024 are focused on:* Education: Cut the High School dropout rate in 1/2* Income: Reduce the percentage of unstable families by 25%* Health: Increase the number of healthy youth by 1/3* Housing: Cut the % of homeless and housing insecure children in 1/2

Agoura Hills, Ca, Us

Key Information Systems (KeyInfo) is a leading regional systems integrator with world-class compute, storage and networking solutions and professional services for the most advanced software-defined data centers. These competencies are tightly complimented by a full suite of data center capabilities, including private and hybrid cloud offerings, connectivity services, colocation facilities and managed services. KeyInfo’s converged infrastructure and software-defined data center solutions are backed by a complete range of professional services, including readiness assessments, deployment and integration, training, comprehensive project management, maintenance and financing. KeyInfo’s data center offerings, deployed on the most advanced technology solutions available, are hosted in Tier III data center environments and include offerings for 24/7 management and monitoring for on-premises and off-premises environments. KeyInfo holds platinum-level designations from its manufacturer partners and consistently achieves the highest levels of client satisfaction. Among numerous accolades, Inc. magazine rated KeyInfo as #42 among the Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies in the United States and the #1 Fastest Growing in Los Angeles. I will lead sales in our Irvine, Arizona and Northern Ca. offices as well as develop and strengthen our core alliances.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Develop and execute worldwide Channel Sales strategies for Rocket Software. Expand channel utilization that drives software growth in the Cloud and on premise licenses as well. Manage channel enablement initiatives and business development. Expand global alliances with Managed Service Providers and IBM's Premier Business Partners. Assess the viability of a SaaS based Channel model for iCluster, Rocket's high availability software. Work on certification of IBM Pure Systems. Establish Rocket Software as a 'Premier' IBM Business Partner as we enhance cloud strategies across the Rocket portfolio of solutions.

San Jose, California, Us

A NetApp Senior Executive responsible for the IBM Strategic Alliance, relationships and sales of our Cloud optimized storage solution on a global basis. IBM OEM's NetApps storage products and puts the IBM N series branded logo on our line. N Series is optimized for Cloud, SaaS, IaaS with features such as secure multitenancy. Responsible for management of a matrix team of product, engineering, manufacturing, marketing and sales across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. This business approached $.5B as we expanded on premise and cloud installations to 107 countries worldwide.

Centennial, Colorado, Us

Executive responsible to lead a sales team and drive over $500m of IBM Hardware, Software and Services revenue thru 150 Value Added Remarketers in Western United States. Recruit Vars and drive demand generation activity to ensure growth.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Executive responsible to develop and launch a global channels organization for a new IBM Product Division called NUMA-Q. Manage a team to develop contracts, recruit and education 66 new channels partners globally. This division ultimately merged with IBM RS/6000 to become the Web Server Division. Also took on the role of Distribution Channel Management. My final 2 years at IBM I was on a "Loaned Executive Program" as a Vice President for Arrow. Two years into this assignment I retired from IBM and retained my VP position at Arrow.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Transform IBM's go to market strategy from direct sales to channels sales by growing the Business Partner Channels in the Western United States to over $1.2B Manage a channels team that developed and executed route to market strategies new to IBM. Manage relationships with Avnet, Arrow, Ingram Micro, Tech Data and over 650 Vars or Solution Providers. Manage IBM's ecosystem of partners including ISV's, System Integrators, Distributors, Vars. Drive interlocks among direct sales and channels.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Manage a large field sales, systems engineering, administrative and customer engineering organization to drive IBM hardware and software sales in Los Angeles and Orange County, Ca.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) International Relations And Political Sci., Bachelor Of Arts

Mba, Business, Management, Marketing

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