Experience

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  Mbes, Llc

  • Grandpa, Ceo
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  MBES, LLC

  • Sacramento, California Area

  • Grandpa, CEO

    • Apr 2014 - Present
    • Sacramento, California Area

    Managing a privately held investment company while executing a jointly developed plan to spoil our eight grandchildren--without their parents figuring out whether to put Grandma or Grandpa on time-out.

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  24seven CSR

  • Greater Denver Area

  • Partner, Corporate Sales Strategy

    • Apr 2014 - Jan 2016
    • Greater Denver Area

    Teamed with several creative entrepreneurs under the leadership of Paul Case in a privately held start-up where we developed the sales strategy and co-developed the Business Plan for a modular, multi-industry technology solution for customer service.

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  NEC Corporation of America

  • San Diego, California, United States

  • Senior Customer Relationship Manager

    • Sep 2011 - Apr 2014
    • San Diego, California, United States

    Left Amdocs to join with the CIO/CTO of Leap Wireless, Rob Strickland, to support their business acquisition strategy to become a part of AT&T. We achieved that goal with the efforts of talented individuals such as Mark Cribbs, Aaron Grunewald, and Ruth Weimer.

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  Amdocs

  • Sacramento, CA

  • Senior Sales and Customer Relationship Manager

    • Apr 2005 - Sep 2011
    • Sacramento, CA

    Recruited to return to Amdocs to work with IT industry leaders Dan Streetman and Brian Shepherd to manage their largest US new business CRM opportunity--DISH TV. Following that, assigned to the T-Mobile account where we consistently exceeded revenue growth goals because of the skills of Danny I...

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  Covansys

  • Sacramento, California Area

  • Director, Account Management

    • Sep 2000 - Apr 2005
    • Sacramento, California Area

    Coupled technical and sales knowledge learned at IBM with the outstanding technical skills of Michael Trovato and Vanitha Maharaj, to sell and successfully deliver IT professional services at all levels of California state government.

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  Amdocs

  • Sacramento, California Area

  • Senior Sales Manager

    • Aug 1992 - Sep 2000
    • Sacramento, California Area

    Joined CableData (acquired by Amdocs) to manage the sales team for the industry leader in pay-tv CRM solutions. With the teamwork of outstanding individuals such as Guprit Paintal, Debbie Persram, Monika Neilsen, and Tracy Beard, we exceeded all annual sales quotas and achieved corporate and cu...

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  IBM

  • Sacramento, CA

  • Senior Advisory Sales Rep/IBM Education Grant Manager

    • Sep 1977 - Aug 1992
    • Sacramento, CA

    Utilized IBM's world-class national sales training and local mentoring from Gene Britton and Jan Geiger to begin a career in sales which grew from cold calling to co-developing with an exceptional individual, Sam Wells, IBM's national model for State and Local Government Account (SGA) sal...

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  Madison Metropolitan School District

  • Madison, WI

  • Local Vocational Education Coordinator

    • Sep 1976 - Sep 1977
    • Madison, WI

    School Administrator for VEA funding and curriculum offerings in business, industrial, distributed, home economics, and agriculture. Teamed with exceptional teachers, such as Kathlene Holt, in a 1,500+ pupil high school to successfully prepare students with vocational skills necessary for the wo...

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  Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

  • Madison, Wisconsin Area

  • Educational Leadership Consultant

    • Sep 1972 - Sep 1976
    • Madison, Wisconsin Area

    Ass't Director for Career Education responsible for coordinating federal Vocational Education Act (Carl Perkins) grant approvals to Wisconsin public 9-12 schools. My mentors, Ruel Falk and Marlene Dobberfuhl, supported my efforts to change old paradigms where I broke every rule imaginable in...

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  Laconia High School

  • Rosendale, WI

  • Business Education Dept Chair

    • Sep 1971 - Sep 1972
    • Rosendale, WI

    Taught accounting, office practice, typing, shorthand, business law, and intro to business; while learning art skills from Ms. Funk, and administrative skills from Mr. Mossberg.