Peter Siamas

**-** *** ******, ********, NY *****

acrujj@r.postjobfree.com

917-***-****

Professional Summary:

Top performing, detail-oriented, and goal driven professional with success in sales, recruiting, and management within the technology industry. Keen ability in establishing long-term accounts, educating team members, and exceeding sales goals. Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated team leadership. One of my main strengths is opening new accounts and growing them. Helped grow four startup companies and also worked in an 18 billion dollar company, so I have experience in both arenas.

Certifications:

VMware VSP 4 Certified

Certified Microsoft Network Sales Partner for Virtualization

Certified Dell EqualLogic Sales

Certified Dell Server Specialist (Sales)

Certified Dell Tower and Rack Server Solutions v3

Cisco virtualization sales

Red Hat Partner Virtualization Certified Salesperson

Professional Experience:

PRI Technology , New York, NY Feb 2015- June 2015

Director

PRI Technology is a full service-staffing firm with focus on IT staffing. We service our client’s staffing needs in the area of Information Technology, Human Resources, Finance and Accounting and Administration.

Duties included expanding the New York IT staffing, solution selling and recruiting staff.

New business development and delivering technology staffing and consulting

services/solutions to a defined set of accounts within the northeast geographic region

Penetrated 5 new accounts at the SVP and/or C-Level.

Drive increased revenue and profit from existing accounts in addition to new accounts.

Negotiate agreements with direct clients and vendor management providers

Develop and deliver proposals for new business and secure primary vendor status with both direct clients and VMS providers.

Manage and mentor sales team of 5

Recruit candidates and also manage and mentor the recruiting staff

Performed integration needs analysis by merging hardware, software peripherals and communications to form an integrated solution.

Extensive customer contact that included developing and presenting sales proposals to key decision makers, organizing and running customer events.

Main Vertical was financial companies but also had a few media and insurance companies

Cold and warm call new clients every day to maintain a pipeline of new accounts

Quest Group LLC Aug 2013 – Jan 2015

Managing Director- Technology Solutions

The Quest Technology Solutions practice focuses on contract, contract-to-hire and direct hire positions in the Network Infrastructure and Software Development Life Cycle space. Our team is comprised of experts in the field who truly adhere to the concept of quality first. Integrity, Professionalism and Results. We are dedicated to providing the best customer service around and delivering the most qualified candidates.

Duties include helping grow the New York IT sales and recruiting staff.

New business development and delivering technology staffing and consulting

services/solutions to a defined set of accounts within the northeast geographic region

Penetrated 8 new accounts at the SVP and/or C-Level.

Drive increased revenue and profit from existing accounts in addition to new accounts.

Negotiate agreements with direct clients and vendor management providers

Develop and deliver proposals for new business and to secure primary vendor status with both direct clients and VMS providers.

Manage and mentor the sales team

Recruit candidates and also manage and mentor the recruiting staff

Provide leadership to customers for their IT Solution needs, including Service Desk, Managed and Monitored Services and Cloud Computing

Main clients were in the financial arena, Brokerage and Hedge Funds

Cold and warm call new clients every day to maintain a pipeline of new accounts

Quest closed down the technology division in NYC and wanted me to move to Atlanta where they are headquartered but I couldn’t relocate so I went to PRI

RANDSTAD TECHNOLOGIES, US Nov 2011 – July 2013

Sr Account Executive

•Duties included new business development and delivering technology staffing and consulting

Services/solutions to a defined set of accounts within the northeast geographic region.

•Penetrated new accounts at the SVP and/or C-Level.

•Drove increased revenue and profit from existing accounts in addition to new accounts.

•Negotiated agreements with direct clients and vendor management providers

•Worked with the recruiters to make sure we had the right candidates.

•Worked on two of the biggest clients ADP and Bank of America/Merrill

•Worked on various outsourced projects with ADP including delivering a Sharepoint project.

•Cold and warm call new clients every day to maintain a pipeline of new accounts

E-ZING TECHNOLOGIES, ( Cloud Creo) New York, NY January 2003 – Nov 2011

Vice President of Sales and Recruiting

•Responsible for business development, account management and recruiting

team members for a boutique IT staffing consulting services firm.

•Developed, grew and maintained relationships via traditional marketing efforts

and more contemporary social media-based methods.

•Aided sales and recruiting team members with lead generation, client support, account

management, organization and motivation.

•Mentored junior team members on business development and recruiting.

•Involved in operational functions: contract negotiations, RFP’s, team P&L

•Concentration in the financial industry

CLOUD CREO New York, NY (formed as a an affiliate of e-Zing) August, 2010 – Nov 2011

Director of Business Development

Cloud Creo is an Information Technology company that provides Virtualization & Cloud

(Public/Private/Hybrid) services, solutions, strategies and products (Saas & PaaS based):

•Hired by this start-up to develop and run all new business development efforts

•Helped bring revenues from zero to 5 million in first year of operation

•Engaged new clients in Finance, Law and Media

•Created strategic alliances and partnerships with VMware, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Dell. Oracle

Rackspace, Redhat

AMERICAN CONSULTING GROUP May, 2001 – January, 2003

Sales and Recruiting Managing Director

•New and strategic account sales for an independent, privately owned technology staffing

service

•Responsibilities included new business development and growth of existing accounts

•Consistently identified opportunities and strategic alliances resulting in revenue- generating

outcomes

•Leveraged previous successes with Fortune 100 clients and attained Preferred Vendor status

•Hired, trained, mentored junior account managers and recruiters

•Developed proposals, marketing plans and competitive analysis

CONCISE DESIGN (Staffing)

Sr. Account Manager April 1998- May 2001

•Generated $1.2 million in gross margins, $5.25 million in annual revenue

•Increased revenue by over $10 million within 3 years with a diverse group of clients:

(Sotheby’s Realty, Altria Corp., Kraft Foods, Oracle, etc)

•Key member in positioning company as award-winning, recognized by Inc. 500 and D&T’s

Fast 50 for three years in a row (1999-2001)

PRIOR TO 1998, employed in positions in sales

ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY- 1990

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