Strengths

  • Combining a passion for technology with a strong business background.
  • Leveraging my technical understanding, and exceptional communication skills to drive business relationships.
  • C-Level selling to web application development.


    • EXPERIENCE

    Salesforce.com: San Francisco, California
    Sales Engineer, January 2008 - Present
  • Understand the client needs and establish salesforce.com as the best solution that addresses the clients needs.
  • Build and present customized demos.
  • Present company's technology infrastructure, including demonstrating deep familiarity with company's hardware, software, networking and security stack


    • IBM Corporation: San Francisco, California
    System P Solutions Leader, Northern CA, August 2004 - January 2008
  • New Unix and Linux systems sales in the Northern CA computer services, software, healthcare, financial and other general industries. Delivered 2005 revenue growth of 175%, and 2006 revenue growth of 45%.
  • Work closely with CIO’s, CFO's, Vice Presidents and Director level executives during the pre and post sales cycles.
  • Work extensively with IBM channel partners and solution providers (ISVs) in managing territory business activities. This includes, but is not limited to, joint seminars & events, account strategy & resource allocation, forecasting, and most importantly - closing business.


    • Sun Microsystems: Broomfield, Colorado
    Global Financial Systems and Business Processes Intern, May 2003 - May 2004
  • Designed and implemented web-based solutions to simplify and standardize tasks and information for finance users within Sun Services.
  • Administered users of multiple financial systems including Oracle & Essbase databases and managed the access approval processes.
  • Developed perl scripts and created quarterly reports to administer various internal systems audits and meet SOX requirements.
  • Maintained the Field Finance web portal and performed web maintenance on various other finance sites as needed.


    • Presidio Trust: San Francisco, California
    Computer Assistant and Web Services Associate, IS- Intern, May 2002 – August 2002
  • Assisted in the maintenance of the public website and the internal intranet site.
  • Developed internal and external web applications for lines of business within the Presidio using ASP.
  • Designed and maintained databases; assisted in server maintenance.
  • Contributed to the graphic design and site branding of the new portal using Photoshop and Fireworks.


    • EDUCATION

    University of Colorado, Boulder
    Degree: Bachelors of Science in Business Administration
    Majors: Information Systems and Finance
    Certificate: Technology, Arts, and Media
    Information Systems GPA: 3.8
    Cumulative GPA: 3.242


    LEADERSHIP

    University of Colorado Student Union: University of Colorado at Boulder
    Liaison to Administration, May 2003 - May 2004.

    Interfraternity Council: University of Colorado at Boulder
    Treasurer and Web/Systems Chair, Novemeber 2002 - November 2003.

    Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity: Psi Chapter
    Treasurer, December 2001 - December 2002.

    Information Systems Organization: University of Colorado, Leeds School of Business
    Member, February 2003 - May 2004

    Order of Omega National Honors Society: Gamma Eta Chapter
    Member, May 2002 - May 2004


    TECHNICAL

    Languages: PHP, Perl, Cold Fusion, ASP, Visual Basic, SQL, XML, CSS, DHTML.
    DBMS / Web Servers: MySQL, SQL Server, Apache, Tomcat, Iplanet, IIS.
    Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP, UNIX (Solaris), Linux, Mac OS X.
    Applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Brio, Visio, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop.