Wes Wisham

Experience

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  Water of Life Church

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1995

  Business Administrator & Missionary

  * Designed and implemented the following Administration infrastructure components: Computerized Accounting/Finance system, Attendance and Membership databases, Personnel Policies, General Office operations, Training materials and Volunteer Job descriptions. Additionally, advised on near-term planning priorities(6-18 month) and personally trained office staff on PC’s.

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  Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company)

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2002

  Seconded by EMEA Professional Services Director to launch the new Symbol University training campus based in our European headquarters in Berkshire, England, starting from ground zero in support of corporate & channel sales strategy.* Managed and facilitated the delivery of corporate wide quarterly development sales workshops to sales and pre-sales associates and reseller partners at 4 venues each quarter for 400 attendees. * Created EMEA-wide policies and procedures for the training function across EMEA and incorporated Kirkpatrick 1-4 evaluations in support of technical training curriculum.* Produced a training revenue stream of $350K USD annually that did not exist previously.* Planned and facilitated and project managed and personally designed training content for major alliance partners and customers, such as Nortel, BT, Mitel, Shell, DoD (US Navy), and Marks & Spencer.* Formulated a train-the-trainer local language certification and deployed it across EMEA. Show less Developed and delivered Wireless LAN Systems and Site Survey training to associates in North America and Europe on-site and at designated training facilities. * Revised course documentation, created new lab activities and improved assessments that were incorporated into the global curriculum while migrating the training from DOS and Windows 3.11 systems to Win’95, NT 4.0 Server, IIS.* Developed longstanding relationships with Senior Product Managers and SME’s in our RF Engineering labs to improve rapid course development for new systems and solutions product launches. This slashed new training development time by 50% from 12 weeks down to 6. Show less

  • Senior Technical Training Manager

    Jan 1999 - Jan 2002

  • Wireless LAN Education Specialist

    Jan 1996 - Jan 1999
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  Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company)

  Aug 2002 - Jan 2005

  Sr. Business Development Mgr - Training

  Responsible for building initial worldwide go-to-market sales training strategy for technical field-based training in order for it to become a P/L.* Delivered new bespoke sales workshop training quarterly across EMEA focusing on value-added selling, up-selling and whole-product solution selling.* Designed and delivered 1st ever world-wide multi-language interactive-CD for 800 sales associates to use as their presentation platform with customers and resellers, in support of our new brand-promise of Enterprise mobility system solutions.* Persuaded Channel Partners through delivering customer facing keynote addresses at Partner Conferences throughout EMEA and at partners’ sites to grow their technical competency in our product portfolio through new e-learning courses. * Created 23 new training products helping to grow revenues to $500K USD in 2004.* Advisor to Senior Management for quality improvement in the development of e-learning technical sales curriculum. Show less

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  Zebra Technologies

  Jul 2005 - Dec 2014

  Senior Training Manager - EMEA

  Role focuses on building capability and competence across multiple disciplines within Zebra Technologies Europe Limited and within the Channel Partners in regards to our Barcode Labeling solutions, Card Identification Solutions and unattended Kiosk printing solutions. Scope includes managing and expanding the portfolio of billable Technical repair training and certification of channel partners via Instructor Lead training and free of charge E-Learning offerings (in multiple EU languages), as well as, Sales enablement, Internal learning development and onboarding of new Zebra employees, whilst Managing and Administrating a regional LMS serving over 3500 Users. * Scoped and Implemented regional (EMEA) Learning Management System (2008-Present) that engages employees and channel partners to develop their business acumen, product knowledge and technical repair skills via webinars, classroom training and eLearning modules. * Launched 2nd major training facility within our Heerenveen, Netherlands distribution centre which has increased offerings by 40% throughout continental Europe.* Recruited outsource training providers to increase training delivery by 100% and reduce training costs by 25%* Improved service delivery of training courses across 18 countries while reducing shipping costs by 23%.* Zebra Star Award winner 2011 in recognition for outstanding performance for contributions and leadership as a Core team member in the selection and successful business case approval by Executive staff that lead to the current rollout of a new LMS system from Saba for Zebra Globally in 2012.* Double Zebra Star Award winner in EMEA (2010) and North America (2011) in recognition of outstanding performance in designing and delivering a 'Train-the-Trainer' course to Super Users and Business Leads engaged in the rollout of our new Oracle ERP R3 customer and order management system to over 1000 internal Zebra employees during 2010-2011. Show less

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  Zebra Tecnologies Europe Limited

  Jan 2015 - Jun 2018

  Regional Learning Consultant - Learning Services EMEA

  Responsible for Channel Certification training strategy, scheduling, delivery and profitability; Man management of in-house EMEA Learning Professionals; Customer Solution training quotation, design, delivery and profitability; as well as Professional Services employee skills development strategy and delivery and the launching of new Sales Academies for New Hires, Sales Managers, Solution Sellers, and Presentation Skills. Responsible for selling the largest Learning Services solution in history of the company of over $700K which saved the customer over $90K in first year of a multi-year roll out across 1000 site estate. Show less

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  Zebra Technologies

  Jun 2018 - Mar 2019

  Regional Learning Consultant- Employee Learning EMEA

  Formulate regional Sales and Employee training strategy through consultative requirements gathering with key stakeholders (VP/GM and Senior Management teams) and agree priorities and budgets for regional training schedule roll-out. Developed, promoted and managed delivery and metric reporting for Sales New Hires Academies, Sales Managers Academies, Solution Selling Foundations, Effective Presentation Skills Academies, Channel Account Manager (CAM) Strategic Skills Development Training, plus championing a new Digital Learning Platform from pre-launch, to launch and full roll-out to 2,500 employees in region. Show less

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  M:25 Performance Edge Limited

  Apr 2019 - now

  Business Development Lead

  Providing consultative training and coaching services for skill attainment, skill mastery for enhanced personal organizational impact. Utilising several John C. Maxwell materials to accomplish this.I recommend learning technologies to help the learning stick so that performance will remain high once back in their normal workflow. Experienced in crafting and deploying Learning Experience Platforms and driving user adoption. I rally teams to build the most engaging user experiences into the learning experience including face-to-face, virtual, augmented reality, virtual reality or mixed reality. for rapid learner adoption.I develop the next generation of TED talkers award winners through team and 1:1 presentation skills training helping them discover and utilise their strengths with complimentary visuals, stories and content. Show less

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  Skillsoft

  Apr 2020 - now

  Services Design Architect

  Provide pre-sales Learning Consultancy to Global L&D Stakeholders on tailored Professional Services Solution offerings that help customers build digital talent development strategies using our brain-science based content within our Percipio LXP to accelerate skill and competency advantages.