FERN CHALIK
*** ******* ***** *******, *** CLEMENTE, CA 92672
adjbo3@r.postjobfree.com
CORE
Project/Product/People Management
Business Intelligence
Sales/Pre-Sales
Information Security
CRM
ITSM
Oracle CX
Google Firebase
Facebook Connector
RTB
Marketing Campaign
Networking
Cloud
Container
Virtualization
Big Data
Web Technologies
SKILLS
Team Player
Ability to work Under Pressure
Conflict Resolution
Agility
INTEREST
Photography
Basketball
Soccer
Chess/Puzzle Games
CERTIFICATIONS
CISSP
CEH
CCNA
MCSE
EXPERIENCE
ENGAGEMENT MANAGER / KERIO, AUSTIN, TX.
Mar 2018 – Present
Collaborate with field sales, pre-sales, training and support teams to seek to understand our customer’s needs, their business, how success is defined, and ensure that we are exceeding expectations in delivery and developing valued solutions.
Experience leveraging formal project management and development methodologies on enterprise level engagements.
Lead individuals, teams or multiple groups and play an active role in analyzing project goals, creating a plan to achieve those goals, and then driving the team members, customer stakeholders/SMEs and potentially other third parties to achieve those goals while understanding the client environment and any limitations to execution.
Actively looks for ways to improve process efficiencies and effectiveness.
Ability to apply strategic thinking and demonstrate understanding of requirements to execute.
Selected Achievements:
Resolve customers’ cloud computing challenges by providing technical expertise, increased repeat business by 15%. Deliver modules for Web Security, Cloud Computing, and Big Data Analytics. Reached 11% increase in Total Revenue within 9 months since inception
Established updated data strategies to revamp current methodologies and ensure data-driven transformation in 3 years
MANAGER OF CUSTOMER SUCCESS / KERIO, SAN JOSE, CA.
Jan 2014 – Mar 2018
Recruited, led, and developed high performing Customer Success team.
Drove customers' on-boarding experience and succession planning to ensure customers were deriving the most value out of Kerio's products and services
Proactively drove customers' adoption and looked for opportunities to increase the overall footprint
Provided feedback to Sales, Product, and Marketing on patterns with Customers that would allow us to more efficiently scale our business
Selected Achievements:
Successfully managed to any related KPIs such as revenue growth, client satisfaction, etc.
Improved upsell/cross-sell rates by 35%
Exceeded annual goals with client renewal rate above 85% for over 231 accounts.
SR. SALES ENGINEER / TREND MICRO, LAKE FOREST, CA.
Mar 2010 – Jan 2014
Provided Proof of Concept service to pre-sales customers and helped clients with planning and implementation of Trend Micro products
Process Management and Quality Control, Cloud/Managed Hosting Technology & Data Center.
Cyber security policy, operations, encryption, forensics, tools, compliance, incident management
Provided best practice in specialized processes such as Lead Management, & Campaign Management
Familiarity with Marketing processes including Sales, Market share, Expense, & Financial analysis
Participated in alliance projects including building vendors’ and customers’ relationships.
Selected Achievement:
Developed a new system for generating sales leads which were implemented across the organization and resulted in a 20% improvement in sales performance
SR. TECHNICAL ACCOUNT MGR. / TREND MICRO, LAKE FOREST, CA.
Oct 2005 – Mar 2010
Interfaced with the various stakeholders (business sponsors, application developers, and other support personnel) to plan, deploy, troubleshoot, and support application deployments; analyze/rectify post deployment figures to meet optimum results.
Managed the delivery of recommended/agreed-upon services to achieve high customer satisfaction.
Achieved customer health through service delivery, planning and execution
Interacted with sales team and the customer during the pre/post-sales cycle to provide implementation scope and estimates, created proposals and Statements of Work, and conduct trials.
Selected Achievements:
Awarded TAM of the year for 3 consecutive years of exemplary staff management & team motivation.
Designed, developed and implemented Premium Services program which increased sales revenues and customer retention by 14% for the first year and 25% for the following 5 years.
DIGITAL MARKETING MANAGER / ADIC, REDMOND, WA.
Sep 2004 – Oct 2005
Managed daily account responsibilities associated with Excite, Yahoo, and Altavista.
Worked with other analysts to develop an actionable multi-attribution model for marketing campaigns
Proven ability to lead teams and implement measurable change to improve efficiency.
Maintained and monitored keyword bids, monthly budget caps, impression shares, and quality scores.
Used Salesforce reporting & Mailchimp marketing automation to adjust bids.
Employed remarketing for highly profitable cohorts and to reduce sales cycles.
Worked with the product marketing and creative teams to create ads, templates, and landing pages;
Monitored and administered web analytics dashboards, reports, and key reporting tools.
Selected Achievements:
Increased website traffic by 50% by creating and implementing an SEO strategy
Generated a 300% uplift in organic traffic to the website in a year
Identified website usability issues by conducting A/B testing
EDUCATION
BSC. MAJOR IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING & MINOR IN COMPUTER SCIENCE/ UNIVERSITAT STUTTGART, STUTTGART, GERMANY.
Dean’s List
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
MEALS ON WHEELS
San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose Chapter. 2006 - 2017
Handled web design and record keeping
Developed front-end WordPress site and blog with 250+ pages.
Customized a web app to track all 1,047 delivery clients and 58 temp drivers
AMERICAN REDCROSS
Santa Clara County 2008 - 2013
Supervised and directed the working staff in a shelter or quarantine environment; to manage high-level situations and events and respond accordingly; to plan, organize, assign, schedule, monitor, coordinate, and evaluate the work of staff; to maintain and enforce safety standards and measures of staff and residents; responsible for the daily operations of an assigned shift; to assist in the development and implementation of policies and procedures; to provide custodial services to residents, and to perform related duties as assigned.