What draws you to the hosting industry as a career?I have an interest in technology as a whole. I do some web and graphic design on the side so my foot was already partially in the door, technologically-speaking. Once I saw how web design and web hosting relied on each other, my interest and knowledge grew with the web hosting industry.What is the biggest milestone you’ve accomplished?In the roles that I have fulfilled, one of my biggest milestones was running a successful third-shift sales team. I had a small team mixed of seasoned and new employee’s that I coached and watched grow. During this time, there was active sales management training. This allowed me to work effectively with my team on their sales skills such as helping them pitch our products via phone call or live chat. Pushing confidence and getting rid of wishy-washy terms allowed us to hit our sales goal several months in a row. Growing the sales team and watching them become successful was spectacular for me and gave me a sense of accomplishment that I haven’t felt in my career before.Tell us about a truly rewarding experience you’ve had with a customer.I was working with a customer who needed an upgrade to their existing infrastructure with us. While upgrading, the customer was migrating their email data and accidentally ran a terminal command which deleted a bulk of their email. They had no backups and were desperate to get this data back. We went above and beyond by contacting a smaller data recovery partner (at the time) who we sent the drives out to and were able to successfully recover their data. The customer was ecstatic to get the data back and even made an additional purchase for our Remote Backup Product after the incident. This was extremely rewarding for both myself and the customer, as well as a great sales opportunity that materialized due to our service and support.Work aside, what are some of your hobbies?I’m a big gamer and run an opening gaming community to help with charities and games who may not have folks to game with. I also do some graphics and web design on the side and video editing work when the time is available. I really enjoy digital media as well as streaming games on my twitch.tv channel.If you could have dinner with one famous person [dead or alive] who would it be?Adam Sandler, Founder of Happy Madison Productions. Huge fan of Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, and Little Nicky. He’s a great comedian but I truly appreciate his acting talents more.
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