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My Skills and Experience:

Team Facing:

•25 years of experience in the IT technology area.
•35 years of experience managing technical projects
•12 years of managing teams developing programming solutions.
•Managed teams of more than 50 diverse talents.
•Have built and mentored teams, hiring and letting go as required.
•Used the Rational (RUP & derivatives) for over 10 years.
•Have database and data integrating experience.
•Have deep networking and server scalability and throughput experience.
•Have designed solutions myself and implemented them.

Customer Facing:

•Have led the preliminary customer interviews and cold called
•Have allied with Sales and formulated product sales strategy
•Have produced all technical artifacts used to sell the product
•Have partnered with all parties and technical resources for projects
•Have secured buy-in/sponsorship in from important C level managers
•Have given presentations and tutorials, selling designs and plans.
•Have mentored leaders, and managed high level customer expectations

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