Experience

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  A.c.e. s.a.s.

  Jun 1997 - Jul 2005

  Founder & technical director
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  Hs digital

  Sept 2004 - Oct 2006

  Sales and marketing director
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  Mediatop

  Oct 2006 - Feb 2008

  Consultant
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  Polycom

  Nov 2007 - Jul 2019

  As a Product Manager and UC Strategist, I am a pre-sales evangelist. With a deep understanding both business issues and IT trends. I focus on the application of technologies to business. Tying solutions powered by Polycom and our partners (including IBM, Microsoft and others) back to solve industry problems and implement best practices.I work as part of the sales team to deliver a cohesive message about Polycom's strategies and how these strategies are directly applicable to solving a customer's business challenges. Additionally, by engaging directly in the product development process with multiple engineering teams, I'm able to help ensure that the solutions designed and delivered actually solve the problems that our customers share. Internally, I am "the voice of the customer" on several Polycom product engineering teams. As part of the engineering team, I have developed a deep understanding of Endpoint technologies, business requirements, and solutions including our competitor's products. I have authored product enhancement requirements based on discussions with customers.Additionally, I have become a subject matter expert in IoT integration. Because of my background, I have a strong understanding not just our internal processes, but how and why customers would want to follow industry and Polycom best practices for deploying Unified Communications solutions. As an evangelist, I share this information globally with both customers and Polycom's partner community to help customers deploy technology properly. Show less Led The Canadian Pre Sales Engineers team who are focusing on a key strategic business partners, their partners, and their end customers to drive incremental revenue through the development, and maintaining technical and business relationships. This requires the management of communications and internal cooperation of multiple resources across sales, product support, marketing, operations, legal, and the executive team to drive success, all over the world. Acting as a technical ambassador for Polycom, presented to appropriate industry groups and conferences.Internally, I provide feedback to the product portfolio and strategic roadmap, to better deliver products that meet the needs of customers and end users. Provided mentoring, training and coaching within the greater sales/sales engineering organizations. Show less As the Americas consulting engineer I was required to focus on bringing the delivery the company vision, road map and applicable industry trends to the largest and most strategic Polycom customers. In order to achieve the scope of my role, I worked very closely with many different groups within Polycom to help drive customer requirements and needs into new products and solutions.In additon I'm task to provide pre-sales technical leadership in the area of Microsoft Unified Communications (UC) and networking applications. Show less

  • Product Manager and UC Strategist

    Jan 2015 - Jul 2019

  • SE Manager Canada

    Jul 2012 - Jan 2015

  • Solutions Architect & Consulting Engineer (Canada and North America East Coast)

    Nov 2010 - Jul 2012

  • Solution Architect EMEA

    Jan 2010 - Nov 2010

  • Pre-Sales Senior System Engineer

    Mar 2008 - Dec 2009

  • Sales Engineer

    Nov 2007 - Feb 2008
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  Logitech

  Jul 2019 - now

  Global Technical Enablement

  • Global Senior Solutions Architect

    Sept 2021 - now

  • Technical Solutions Specialist

    Jul 2019 - Aug 2021