Ron Veerman Email & Phone Number

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

I am back – and it is great to be back!After a hiatus, I am again covering a number of southern states: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, AlabamaIt is great to be connecting with new customers, and reconnecting with old colleagues

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Expanded monthly services with Largest customersSKILLS DEVELOPMENT: Value Sales (Sandler system 2022) • Sales Processes • Business-to-Business (B2B) • New Business Development

Toronto, Canada Area

My role was to grow business relationships, engaging connections face-to-face, Teams and by phone.Extensive travel; very self directed including decisions on customer pricing & discounts. Negotiated Sales including repeat sales-project in Live-production, etc. Primary Clients were Major League Sporting Venues, U.S. Television Station Groups and Cable + IPTV providers.Learned; Promoted & Achieved Sales Goals: Effectively managed growing sales in these US states: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Washington and Wyoming.I creatively prospected & developed new client-verticals as well as new product lines. Used business analytics tools in CRM.Excellent interpersonal communication: I used active listening to understand customer requirements, wants and needs. Advised on such with internal Product Managers and Team members. Brought in Service Specialists as needed for Repairs. Customized our presentations and product marketing at Regional trade shows; and, directly engaged customers at national trade shows.With in-house learning and regular workshops, I became a Subject matter specialist & expert on several of video broadcast technologies. As such, assisted End-users with Evertz Technology, especially these Broadcast Video lines: • orchestration & gear control systems • Fibre Optic platforms• infrastructure SNMP control of DA's, Embedders, Conversion-Frame Sync’s • Compression Formats (including Mpeg2/ MPEG4-H•264/ H265/ Jpeg2000/ ATSC)• Video over IP formats SMPTE 2110 and IEEE 1588 • Slo-motion Video Replay • RF Radio Frequency gear• Router Systems • Router Control• Video PlayoutSKILLS: Organization • Technical Workflow • GoldMine CRM • Outside Sales • Microsoft PowerPoint • SalesManagement • Marketing Strategy • Business Development • Business Analysis •Account Management

Niagara, Ontario

Consolidated, Bought and Sold flowers from the Regional Niagara area, brokering $1-2 M annually into Toronto, Montreal, Pittsburgh, NYC, Grand-Rapids, Detroit, DC, Chicago and Boston.From 2004-2007 managed data base inventories and decided on distribution into Walmart, Meier, Home-Depot. Created a database for supply chain management: with reports for customers future needs as well as brokering suppliers. This was a value add left with my employer. As a power user taught my peers advanced use of the CRM, and Microsoft products1.5 years acting Dispatcher: juggling truck, drivers, and back-hauls. Liaison between Sales and other related DepartmentsSKILLS & TRAINING: • Sales Processes • Negotiation • Microsoft Word, SQL, Office, Excel • Customer Satisfaction • Customer Relationship Management software (CRM) • Collaboration • Dale Carnegie sales training (2000)

Broad range of activities out of High School: Operating Light Farm Equipment; Building and Maintenance of Greenhouse piping & structures; Layouts & Detailed Design work with Auto-CAD; Delivery Driver with 200,000 km safe driving around Greater Toronto & Southern OntarioSkill Development: Defensive Driving course + refresher

Mechanical Engineering

Religious Studies Minor