Sarah (BERGER) Cunningham

Experience

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  Bunnerong High Performance Centre

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1994

  Elite Coach - Women's Artistic Gymnastics

  Lead coach on the elite women's program and responsible for overseeing the elite development squads programs and coaches. Specialising in beam and floor sub junior and junior international.

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  NSW State Sports Centre (SSC)

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1995

  Senior Elite Womens Gymnastics Program Coach

  Training girls in the Elite International stream of gymnastics for NSW and National representation

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  Victorian Institute of Gymnastics

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1995

  Senior Coach Womens Elite International Program

  Training girls for state, national and international competitions - with key focus on preparation for the Sydney 2000 Olympic team

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  I-Case International

  Jan 1995 - Jan 1997

  Business Development Manager

  Sales: lead generation, opportunity development, sales closure, account management and revenue growth.

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  IBM

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2000

  Responsible for the design and execution of a successful world class Business Partner Program for IBM and Lotus business in Australia and New Zealand. Sales, marketing, product, and certification channel program. Strategic sales in enterprise accounts - end to end sales lifecycle. Account development and revenue growth direct and through business partnerships.

  • Lotus/IBM ANZ Business Partner Program Manager

    Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  • Business Development Manager - Software Sales

    Jan 1997 - Jan 1998
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  Microsoft

  Jan 2000 - Apr 2001

  Microsoft NSW Government Account Manager - Software Solutions

  Strategic sales and customer relationship position specialising in NSW Government accounts. Focussed on the successful uptake and territory growth of Microsoft adoption to revenue targets.

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  Microsoft

  Jul 2009 - Dec 2010

  Microsoft - National Business Development Manager

  Responsible for the adoption of Microsoft offerings and revenue growth of the Australia wide local government portfolio. Working directly and in partnership with Microsoft Channel partners.

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  Nexon Asia Pacific

  Dec 2010 - Nov 2013

  Business Development Manager

  Strategic accounts manager sales - government portfolio. Introduction of cloud technology, project, software and hardware product sales. Collaborated on the creation of go to market programs to introduce new concepts and technologies

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  Silfen

  Nov 2013 - Nov 2014

  Sales Operations Manager

  SAP HR & Payroll Specialists. Operations focussed - company transformation projects, partnership and contract negotiations, strategic planning. Project sales and account management.

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  Data#3

  Dec 2014 - Jan 2016

  Account Executive

  Services Account Executive for Data#3 - with a concentrated focus on ‘as-a-service’ technology adoption, with particular alignment to project delivery across the Microsoft SW portfolio. Sales of professional services as major engagements typically assisting customers with identity management, cloud adoption, mobility, datacentre migration and operations optimisation. Strong partnering with strategic consulting excellence (Business Aspect) and all manner of infrastructure, application solutions, managed services as well as SW licensing. Data#3 are a Cloud Solutions and ICT Services company. Show less

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  Viostream

  Jan 2016 - Sept 2019

  Responsible for leading Viostream's Customer Success function, encompassing Territory Directors - Government & Commercial, our Customer Experience Program, Technical Support for our flagship product, & Live Event Production Service Delivery. This covers the customer engagement life cycle from onboarding & account set-up, through to use case development workshops, hands on account management, 'safe hands' live stream event delivery, and customer capability development towards self service video communications to achieve improved business outcomes. Show less

  • Director, Sales & Customer Success at Viostream

    Nov 2018 - Sept 2019

  • Director, Customer Success

    Apr 2017 - Nov 2018

  • Account Executive

    Jan 2016 - Apr 2017
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  Brightcove

  Sept 2019 - Dec 2020

  Director Sales, A/NZ

  Responsible for managing the A/NZ region for Brightcove- a provider of cloud services for video streaming. Responsible for the management of all aspects of the $25M (AUD) annual revenue sales, account management, the technical delivery team and solution engineer teams.

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  Gymnastics Australia

  Jul 2020 - now

  Elected Board Director

  Gymnastics Australia (GA) is the national governing body for gymnastics within Australia. Established in 1949, Gymnastics Australia’s mission is to promote, develop and grow gymnastics for the enjoyment of all. With a passion for competing in the sport from my youth, and experience coaching, judging, and announcing at various National and International competitions, I see this position is an incredible honour to be involved with critical change so that the sport can continue to be enjoyed by so many, in all its forms. Show less

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  Jigsaw Australia

  Mar 2021 - now

  Jigsaw is a well reputed provider of many digitisation and data processing services to our customers whilst being a social enterprise that trains, employs and transitions Australians with disability into mainstream employment. The revelation at the heart of Jigsaw is very simple: people prepare best for work in work.This role is to make sure that we have enough contracted customer project work to maintain all operations in our business hubs in NSW, QLD, VIC, SA & Canberra. This role is also a leadership position responsible for the work delivery teams in each of those geographies - all of which have the same agenda - preparing Australians living with disability with the foundations in order to set them up for success in open employment. Show less

  • Head of Business Services

    Nov 2022 - now

  • National Business Manager

    Mar 2021 - Nov 2022