Business Development Project Management
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David Quantson
Email: ad0w8n@r.postjobfree.com
Profile Summary
** ***** ********** ** *** technology and international business space with a well-defined understanding of technology and global business strategies. Capacity to identify and advise clients at the highest strategic level on both big-picture and tactical matters, focusing on how technology strategy enable a wide range of business outcomes. Exceptional business engagement and communications skills with a proven track record of encouraging business coalitions in international nations, optimizing trade growth possibilities, forming and developing foreign trader associates.
Working knowledge of top CRM tools such as Zoho CRM, Freshsales CRM, SugarCRM, Zendesk and SuitCRM and Salesforce.
Work Experience
Suncomm Technologies International Ltd
www.suncommworld.com
Global Business Development & Strategic Partnerships 2017- Present.
Collaborate with clients to understand their business needs, current-state processes, and future-state requirements through interviews, documentation review, and facilitated workshops.
Play an active role in developing technology solutions, determining specifications, and bringing those specifications into reality. This aspect of the role is hands-on and critical as successful product development can determine whether a new venture is ultimately successful or not.
Gather and write functional and technical requirements for technology components, IT services, business processes, and/or commercial software applications
Help to implement comprehensive project management plans across a program of multiple projects, and drive execution of individual workstreams through good program and project management practices.
Collaborate with a global team to grow and develop key strategic partnerships with Technology Enterprises and Tech Unicorns.
Alliance experts – Netherlands (HQ)
www.alliaceexperts.com
International Business Development & Trade Specialist November 2016- present
Analyze foreign trade and the global economy and use the insights to advise and guide strategic business decisions for clients.
Provide resources and consulting services that assist companies local and overseas in entering new markets
Identify and verify partners and distributors for companies looking to expand business into a new market.
Discover new opportunities for companies to export products (or services) and provide support in establishing presence.
Conduct research and analysis on sectors of the market, compiling trade statistics, Identifies risks involved in new business, setting targets for the business, and taking all requisite actions for attaining the same.
IBM Business Partnership: South Africa
Business Development Executive
August 2011 – November 2015
Collaborated across the IBM global sales and technical team together with respective client teams to identify, qualify and close new business sales opportunities for predefined accounts while always leading with a consultative sales approach.
Positioned the IBM portfolio and services required to meet business needs which ultimately led to increase in IBM’s revenue within the account.
Through the IBM partner ecosystem, I worked closely with other business partners with the aim to bring good technology and great thinkers together to tackle tough business challenges and build a better smarter future, together.
Maintain strong alignment and collaboration with key global partners and consultants to support projects and develop opportunities.
IT Support Specialist
Contractor – United Kingdom & Africa
2003 - 2010
Professional Membership
Fellow British Computer Society The Chattered Institute for IT, United Kingdom Fellowship is recognition by the British Computer Society for achievement and contribution to the IT profession. It is for those who demonstrate a commitment to advancing standards; strategic leadership and best practice and encourage this in others. This status is awarded based on years of industry experience and demonstration of eminence, Authority and seniority in the IT profession. Sales Training
IBM Sales Professional - IBM
Data Science Orientation - IBM
Financial Consultant Training Course – deVere Group (International Financial Consultancy)
Zoho Partner Sales Training - Zoho
Freshdesk Partner Sales Training - Freshworks
3CX Partner sales Training – 3CX
Contact Center Master Class Training – Rod Jones Consulting Education
Master of Science Data Science for Business - ongoing University of Stirling (Scotland)
3CX Certified Engineer - VoIP and Unified Communications (UC) technology (2017)
University of Portsmouth, UK
Computing and Information Systems (2004 – 2005)
National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises(ni-msme) - India
(Centre for Promotion of Advanced Management Practices) Post Graduate Diploma in Management Science- 2002
British Computer Society. The Chattered Institute for IT, UK Institute for Management of Information Systems (IMIS) Higher Diploma in Information Systems (1999 – 2002)
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