Sam Sherrill Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Initially begun as a seasonal Christmas lighting business (see Winter Wonderlights), Bright has become a year-round provider of exterior lighting and cleaning services. Bright is run by its General Manager and his team while I work full-time as a software engineer.

The Winter Wonderlights brand is now part of Bright Home & Commercial Services.

Pleasanton, California, US

Pleasanton, California, US

• Worked on Workday’s Higher Education SaaS product. While helping build the software, Sam was also a key part as Workday started a new local office of software engineers.
• Immediately contributed to deployment of a new integration between US Department of Education and Workday’s Financial Aid module
• Continued to work on APIs between Workday, our customers, and the US Department of Education
• Made numerous code & design contributions during a multi-year effort to update security, performance, front and back-end components in preparation for Workday to market its Higher Education platform to larger and more.
• Developed directly in the cloud in a coding environment built on AWS
• Provided continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) of new software features

Alpharetta, Georgia, US

• Tier4 consults customers on IT purchasing decisions. Sam’s role required both project management & sales skill sets. After finding client opportunities, Sam’s primary responsibilities were:
• Gather proposals from vendors & check them to ensure they meet specifications
• Present vendor proposals to client, then discuss the plusses & minuses about each possibility
• With client, rank solutions and arrange further meetings with vendors of the top solutions
• Debrief with customer after all vendor meetings are complete; advise on final selection
• Remain attentive post purchase, and take action, if necessary, to ensure client’s needs are metTechnologies: cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.), colocation, hybrid cloud, telecom, business continuity, networking, security.

Johns Creek, GA, US

Digitel was a local IT services provider. Services included local networking, Wi-Fi, telephony, IT security, and managed IT services. While here Sam obtained multiple industry certifications from Cisco, Avaya, and Adtran.

Helped original owner start a 2nd branch location. Led start-up of the new branch office. Hired and trained all personnel. Oversaw service delivery, office operations, and sales. Rewrote company's sales training manual and other training materials. Successfully sold Guardian Pest Services to Terminix International in Nov. 2013.

Technical Certificate, Software Development

Associate’S Degree, Business Management & Accounting