Kemi Aladegbami acgp6h@r.postjobfree.com
*** ******** *** ? San Ramon, CA 94582
Alliances & Business Development Executive
Business Development / Marketing / Strategic Alliances / Channel Sales
Dynamic 18 year leadership career offering unique perspective from
multicultural, international experience in program management, business
development, strategic partnerships, product management, and technical team
guidance. Valuable depth of knowledge creating strategic B2B alliances,
solid products and launching end-to-end customer-centric solutions.
Resourceful problem solver with forward-thinking abilities to conceptualize
solutions to challenging problems. Achieve business objectives through
confidence, passion, commitment, and expertise in:
CORE COMPETENCIES
( C-Level Relationships ( Product ( Cross-Functional Team
Development Leadership
( Go-To-Market ( Gap Analysis ( International Business
Strategies Experience
( Management Consulting ( Project ( Technology
Management Implementations
( Sales Pipeline ( Strategic ( Business Process
Building Planning Re-Design
EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS
HP, Sunnyvale, CA 2014-2014
Leading multinational Information Technology Company.
Alliance Consultant
Drive go-to-market strategy for a joint initiative between HP Cloud and a
leading Global Systems Integrator.
. Marketing lead charged with developing comprehensive and cohesive
marketing and sales enablement messaging, collateral and activities,
encompassing hardware, software, applications and services for the
Cloud. OpenStack based IaaS and PaaS offering.
Folstra, San Ramon, CA 2012-2014
Cloud Computing Consulting Services Provider.
Independent Consultant
Trusted advisor for Cloud Software, Services and Infrastructure.
. Created a strategic plan to enable a mid-size Systems Integrator offer
cloud infrastructure and SaaS solutions for the education and
healthcare sectors.
Radware, San Mateo, CA 2011-2012
A leading provider of application delivery network and security solutions
for virtual and cloud data centers.
Senior Director Strategic Alliances
Global head for major virtualization and cloud infrastructure alliance.
. Established the Radware-VMware Partnership as a credible global
strategic alliance with cohesive business, product and marketing
strategies and strong working relationships, resulting in a 400% deal
pipeline increase. Enabled 3-way partnerships with Cloud Service
Providers.
. Directed joint solution development, go-to-market messaging,
collateral creation, business development, channel recruitment,
pipeline management and marketing in the Americas, APAC and EMEA
regions.
Symantec, Mountain View, CA 2010-2011
A global leader in security, storage and systems management solutions.
Director, Strategic Alliances and Business Development
Responsible for leading strategy, go-to-market and business planning for
Cloud Partners - VMware and Citrix.
. Developed the cloud partnering strategy. Aligned Symantec's security,
storage and backup products with VMware's ITaaS/IaaS/SaaS stack.
Created two year business, solution and go-to-market plan.
. Led cross-functional teams to advance initiatives including contract
negotiations, go-to-market initiatives, joint certification and
engineering efforts.
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VMware, Palo Alto, CA 2007-2010
The global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions.
Senior Product Manager, OEM Alliances
Owned Product Management's partnering strategy with global OEM Alliance
Partners. Led 10-member cross-functional team in go-to-market planning,
and product launches.
. Led definition and execution of server enablement partnering strategy
for HP, IBM, Dell, Cisco, Sun, Hitachi, NEC and Fujitsu. Negotiated
agreements for software customizations and embedded products.
Decreased time to market 50% for joint solutions and joint product
launches.
. Increased customer hardware and infrastructure options for virtualized
Datacenters and enhanced VMware license revenue by championing
quarterly Roadmap Alignment and Technical Review discussions with OEM
Executives that increased Product Certifications and Hardware
Compatibility Listings (HCL) by 30%.
. Analyzed market, competition, customers and partner roadmaps,
identified Server and Processor trends, defined VMware Server
Enablement and Scalability product roadmaps for the Cloud, defined
features and created supporting business cases and PRDs, led internal
teams through product launch life cycle.
Sabbatical, San Ramon, CA 2002-2006
Personal time off.
Siebel Systems, San Mateo, CA 2000-2002
Enterprise Software Company specializing in CRM software solutions.
Group Manager, Alliances
Led 6-member team developing and implementing strategic Alliance business
plans in support of solutions for Financial Services, Life Sciences,
Telecommunications, Energy, and High Tech sectors.
. Generated 150% increase to $60M in annual Siebel license revenue by
building and managing C-level relationships at a global consulting,
technology and outsourcing services corporation - Cap Gemini Ernst &
Young.
. Established CGE&Y as company's second largest systems integrator for
CRM eBusiness Applications, by creating innovative industry specific
product solutions and actively managing sales pipeline.
. Led contract negotiations ranging in size from $2 million to $5
million with the Partner around the Alliance agreement and reselling
Siebel software.
. Optimized Alliance Partners' Siebel practice as leader of 6-member
team directing Marketing, Business Development, Product Initiatives,
and Training Programs.
Lucent Technologies, San Ramon, CA 1998-2000
Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturer.
Director (1998-2000)
Provided vision and leadership for 12-member staff in Projects Control
office directing: Program Management, Project Management, Executive
Reporting, Risk Management, Sales Proposals, and Strategies.
. Achieved goal of reviewing 43,000 equipment deployments and upgrading
194 products across 5 continents 5 weeks ahead of 18-month schedule.
. Selected for Global Leadership Development fast track Program.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York, NY 1996-1998
One of the world's largest professional services firms.
Principal Consultant
Technical Infrastructure Team Lead focused on selling and implementing
Supply Chain Management solutions to Fortune 100 customers by
collaborating with C-Level executives on implementation of SAP ERP
systems.
. Responsible for partnering with best of breed vendors to provide fully
integrated and complete solutions to Customers. Vendors partnered with
include SAP, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft, IBM and HP.
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. Reduced IT cost and operating expense by more than 35% by converting
from mainframe to Client/Server environments, consolidating data
centers, merging IT systems, and automating interfaces.
. Enhanced staff productivity an average 50% by redesigning and
improving disparate business processes, integrating customers and
supplier Supply Chains, and standardizing applications, hardware
platforms, and development tools.
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
1992-1996
Leading global Investment Bank.
Project Manager & Senior Programmer/Analyst
Project lead on global team designing and developing Fixed Income Trading
Applications.
. Business and technical analysis of securities database and product
flows, resulting in elimination of data integrity issues, streamlined
data definitions across the firm and improved audit trail in trade
processing.
. Developed system that provided real-time distribution of financial
product information to 61 Servers worldwide. System increased the
speed with which products were traded world-wide by 500%.
EDUCATION / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
M.B.A., Finance & International Business, New York University, New York, NY
M.S., Computer Engineering, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY
B.Sc., Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Ife, Ile-Ife,
Nigeria
Managing Teams for Innovation and Success,
Stanford University Graduate School of Business Executive Education
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Cloud, Virtualization, ITaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Computer Servers, Virtual
Datacenters, Networking, Security.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Platforms: VMware ESX, UNIX, Windows, OpenStack
Software: VMware vSphere, Siebel-Oracle CRM, SAP ERP, Java, HTML, C++,
SQL, MS Project
RDBMS: Oracle, Sybase