Experience

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  Morgan stanley dean witter

  Sept 1999 - Oct 2000

  Financial advisor

  Great professional experience. Ranked #3 out of a class of 221 after passing Series 7 and FA training before leaving with a team for Prudential Financial in Santa Barbara.

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  Prudential securities

  Oct 2000 - Dec 2002

  Financial advisor

  Being a financial advisor when the markets correct 30% (DOW) and 50% (S&P) makes me appreciate every sales job I've had since. Gathered over $45m in assets for the team I was on.

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  American communications, llc

  Apr 2002 - Jan 2007

  Account manager - service providers

  Serviced telecom providers including several multi-million dollar deals (KMC, Qwest, and WilTel). Our three man team bought / sold in excess of $14 million of equipment (85m+ list price) my last full year and were the number one performing team in the organization for our tenure. One of only two people to receive the prestigous "Blue Vase Award" which was an award recognizing where significant obstacles were overcome to create an inspiring outcome.

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  Management recruiters - santa barbara

  Jan 2007 - Jun 2010

  Owner

  Management Recruiters of Santa Barbara is part of the MRI Network. My franchise office focused on great sales and sales engineering talent in the LAN / WAN /SAN space including OEMs and Regional VARs.

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  Wws

  Jun 2010 - Apr 2012

  Senior account manager

  At WWS, I built a book of business from ground zero selling Cisco, Juniper, optics, etc to net new customers. I received the sales performance award of the month for the company in March '12 with Q1 resulting in $750k hardware sales.

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  Dhd

  Apr 2012 - now

  Technology consultant

  We provide solutions in the IT Infrastructure space for Security, Network, Server, and Storage. Simple approach: Listen, learn, offer value in the solution, provide ongoing support until the project is done and repeat. Proudly this formula has yielded high customer and employee retention.

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  Copex solutions

  Jan 2021 - now

  Cisco new and -rf sales

  Copex' original mission: Provide value-added Cisco solutions via the Cisco Excess -WS Offering. While that offering is not longer supported, it resulted in Copex (pronounced Cop-X) Solutions accepting Cisco's invitation to continue our relationship as a fully authorized partner. In addition to the Cisco Refresh offering which offers signficant customer value, we now have access to Cisco's entire portfolio including Collaboration, A.I. Business Solutions and their Security stack.