W. Scott Johnson adtyka@r.postjobfree.com
Birmingham, AL Over 1,400 LinkedIn Connections
P: 205-***-**** https://www.linkedin.com/in/wscottjohnson
Sr. Account Executive / National Sales
Solutions Architect / Technology Consultant
Results driven, technical sales, and business development professional in highly performing team environments with over 25 years of demonstrated success in Information Technology. Consistently exceeds quotas, driving multi-million-dollar and multi-year sales in both growth and established medium and large enterprise markets. Established long term relationships with top-level executives in accounts and extensive VAR and OEM relationship building experience.
Professional Experience
Consistently exceeds quota
Strong relationship building skills
Multiple sales & technical certifications
Multi-million/multi-year negotiations
New product development background
Excellent account management skills
Qualifications
3 yrs. independent IT and business consulting
5 yrs. business unit development and program management
12 yrs. direct sales in data center focused solutions
25 yrs. pre/post sales enterprise consulting engineer, enterprise architect
Education
The University of Alabama in Huntsville - Huntsville, AL
Management Information System/Computer Science – 1990
Professional History
Consolidated Data - Information Technology Consultant (remote) (02/2020 - Present)
Independent consultant to small, medium and large enterprises concerning various aspects of IT such as strategy, governance, digital transformation, business continuity, disaster preparedness and disaster recovery. As an independent, I provide unbiased reviews, evaluations, comparisons, and “what if?” scenarios, which challenge, enhance, and shape, both current and future state, business and IT needs and practices.
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Professional History (Cont.)
ARTEC IT Solutions - Senior Corporate Account Executive (remote) (03/2018 – 01/2020)
National sales and account management with a leading-edge hardware/software manufacturer of unstructured data management solutions. ARTEC specializes in global data management, archiving, e-discovery, case management, and big data, helping solve IT issues while delivering enormous value to the customer.
ConvergeOne - National Account Manager (remote) (12/2016 - 01/2018)
Account manager specializing in Contact Center, Unified Communications, and Customer Experience. As the world’s largest Avaya Partner, we help medium and large enterprise customers navigate changing technologies, cloud-based communications and services, managed services, and security concerns.
ePlus Technology, Inc. - Senior Account Executive (remote) (03/2015 - 04/2016)
Responsible for outside sales in the Southeast with a focus on security, networking, collaboration, storage, virtualization, and application delivery. Worked with major manufacturers to present, deliver, and manage complex projects which exceed desired business outcomes and customer satisfaction in large and medium enterprise accounts.
Insight Global - Multiple Roles (remote) (03/2005 - 02/2015)
Enterprise Sales Executive
Responsible for sales in medium and large enterprise accounts. Exceeded quota by more than
140% with a diverse set of hardware, software, professional services, managed services, cloud,
and support.
VMware Program Manager/Business Development
Started and developed VMware OEM relationship and grew the new virtualization practice from $30k to $700k in the first year. The practice grew to over $1.3M in Q2 of the following year, which was 140% of target for the year.
Pre-Sales Engineer/Enterprise Architect
Provided technical solutions to real business problems focusing on business outcomes, and supporting the integration of the solution into customer environments. I hold many technical and sales certifications with many OEMs.
Verizon Data Services - B/C, DR, Backup/Restore (Tampa, FL) (10/2002 - 02/2005)
3-year consulting engagement to upgrade and manage a very large and complex backup environment. Managed vendor relationships with StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, and Fujitsu while performing leadership functions.
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Professional History (Cont.)
eDeltaCom - Senior Sales Engineer (Atlanta, GA) (11/1999 - 06/2002)
Sun Microsystems (Oracle) Certified Systems Engineer working for a Sun Elite Value Added Reseller in the Tier 1 market of Atlanta, GA. Performed technical lead functions on Sun Microsystems sales campaigns in a heavily leveraged compensation plan with a professional services component weighted by billable hours.
GA Communications, Inc. – Sr. Systems Admin. (Atlanta, GA) (02/1996 - 10/1999)
Responsible for managing digital assets with rapidly changing data for a national advertising company. Developed and managed backup systems, procedures, and policies of large digital image archives. Managed servers, users, networks, backups and databases on Apple, UNIX and Windows.
Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space, Co. (Huntsville, AL) (02/1991 - 07/1995)
Systems Administrator, Proposal Development, Rescue SCUBA Diver to NASA, Pilot
UNIX administration on Sun, HP and SGI data modeling systems. Designed and managed secure networked computing environments in compliance with DoD mandates. Produced technical illustrations, edited technical engineering content, and organized proposal content to conform to DoD proposal guidelines. Developed operational requirements documents related to missile and guidance systems (ACES, Arrow, Patriot, THAAD) for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Army. Extensive experience in developing NASA on-orbit flight plans for EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity) with Hubble Space Telescope and Space Station. Worked under Secret extended background investigations, security clearances, and special access.
Volunteer Experience
Firehouse Ministries - https://firehouseshelter.com
Habitat for Humanity - https://www.habitat.org/
Meals on Wheels America - https://www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org/
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