Business Development Technical Support

Mehrdad Niknezhad

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Hanover, MA 02339

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Work Experience

November 2004 to Present: Self Employed - Developer / Investments & Trades

Worked and managed my own investments - property, equities, crypto

April 1997 to November 2004 : Technical Support Engineer

HP - Littleton, MA

Third Level Technical Support for StorageWorks Hotline - Supported HP Sales and HP Reseller community in prospecting, sizing and designing Storage Area Networks and stand alone storage products for different types and size companies. Disaster tolerant networks and cloud storage solutions to ensure availability and security of data.

Education

May 1991 - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Catholic University of America - Washington, DC

May 1996 - Certificate in Database Design & Development

Clarke University - Braintree, MA

Skills

• Business management

• Business development

Many years of new business development and following proficiencies

~ Identity and generate new sales opportunities and the best path to secure new clients

~ Product presentation and C level engagement

~ Establish relationships through trust and commitment to service

~ Identify untapped markets and develop strategies for business development

~ Develop and negotiate pricing

~ Keeping up with new and emerging technologies and trends

~ Assist in transitioning new clients to account maintenance and management ~ Manage and maintain up to date sales pipeline data

~ Ongoing market analysis to maintain competitiveness

~ Ongoing metrics analysis to ensure sales targets achievement

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