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Sales Manager

Location:
7470
Posted:
November 17, 2010

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Resume:

Kenneth C. Tahan

** ***** *****

Wayne, NJ **470

973-***-**** (O)

201-***-**** (C)

******@*********.***

A Senior Sales Executive with a consistent track record of penetrating and

closing strategic enterprise deals with major global accounts and building

new or under-performing territories.

Employment:

NaviSite, Inc. 10/2009 - Present

Regional Sales Director

. Direct enterprise account sales of Managed Application Services and

Hosting, SaaS and Cloud platform for complex applications.

. Developing a green field territory in New Jersey through aggressive

prospecting.

. Compiled a list of IT executives in all accounts with revenue greater

than $500M, including all Tier 1 law firms in NY Metro.

. Built a pipeline of over $4M.

. Cultivate relationships with regional VAR's and SI's.

VMware 1/2008 - 10/2009

Enterprise Account Manager

. Direct major account sales of Server and Desktop Virtualization

software and services.

. Grew quarterly revenue from an average of $199,000 to $690,279.

. Have excellent relationships with CIO's in all assigned accounts.

. Closed over $1,000,000 in Volume License Agreements.

. Have excellent relationships with VMware Resellers and SI's.

Citrix Systems 1/2003 - 1/2008

New York Metro Field Sales Manager

. Direct major account sales of Application Delivery Infrastructure

Solutions

. Manage NYC territory including Financial Services, Healthcare and

Legal accounts.

. Exceeded quota, from 2005 - 08, averaging 114%.

. Grew annualized revenue from $4.8M to $9.2M from 2004 - 2006, or 91%.

. Closed $7.1M, during the first three quarters of 2007, a 21% increase

over 2006.

. Closed enterprise wide transactions at March of Dimes, Ogilvy &

Mather, North Shore-LIJ, Societe Generale, and New York Presbyterian

Hospital.

. Have excellent relationships with Citrix Certified Resellers.

Ariba 12/2000 - 1/2003

Account Manager

. Sold Enterprise Spend Management software applications to executives

of Global 2000 companies in the NY/NJ territory.

. Accounts included Sony Electronics, Sony Music, Barnes & Noble, Arrow

Electronics, Honeywell, Foster Wheeler, ITT Industries and others.

. Worked closely with SI consulting partners - Andersen, PWC, D&T &

KPMG.

Inprise/Borland Corporation

1/1998 - 12/2000

District Manager

. Sold Java development tools and CORBA integration software to New

Jersey area Global 2000 accounts.

. Built a dormant territory in NJ/Phila. to $3M in revenue, in nine

months.

. Major wins at Telcordia, AT&T, Verizon, Merck, BMS, & Vanguard.

. Promoted to District Telecomm Sales Manager in 1999, managing sales

and SE personnel.

. Exceeded quota in 1998 - 2000 and qualified for President's Club every

year.

Oracle Corporation

6/1995 - 1/1998

Product Sales Representative

. Sold Oracle's DBMS, Development Tools and Application Server products

to F1000 accounts.

. Major wins included Liz Claiborne, KPMG, UPS and Merck & Co.

. Consistently exceeded quota and qualified for Club Excellence.

Iomega Corporation

8/1992 - 6/1995

Territory Sales Manager

. Sold high speed removable disk drives to Fortune 500 and Government

accounts through Resellers and VAR's.

. Increased sales in territory by 100-200%. Grew territory to over $5M+

in revenue.

Revelation Technologies

6/1989 - 8/1992

Corporate Account Executive

. Opened NY Metro Region for this client-server development tools start-

up.

. Leading Corporate Account Executive in sales for Revelation

Technologies every year.

. Accounts included American Cyanamid, McMillan & Sons, Turner

Corporation, Matsushita Electric Corporation of America, A&P, and

others.

Microsoft Corporation

8/1985 - 6/1989

Reseller Sales Manager

. Sold entire line of Microsoft products to Resellers and Major

Corporate Resellers in New Jersey, NY, CT.

. Part of the first sales team hired for the NY Metro. Region.

. Achieved 180% of quota and ranked #1 in U.S. reseller sales in 1988

and exceeded quota every year.

. Managed team of six reseller reps.

Education:

William Paterson University

Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology



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