Partner Ecosystem Leader | AI Builder | Revenue Growth Strategist

Senior Channel Manager & AI Builder

I help technology partners and enterprise customers navigate complex sourcing decisions — and I build the AI systems to execute faster.

I help organizations navigate complex technology decisions by combining channel expertise, supplier leverage, technical fluency, and AI-driven operational execution across telecom, cloud, cybersecurity, UCaaS, CCaaS, and automation.

20+

Years Experience

250+

Technology Suppliers

500+

Enterprise Engagements

30+

AI & Automation Platforms

Multi

Industry Experience

National

Partner Ecosystem

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Impact Dashboard

Quantitative scale, qualitative business impact.

Every metric is tied to practical outcomes: sourcing flexibility, advisory confidence, operational speed, and partner ecosystem growth.

Supplier Ecosystem

250+

Technology providers across telecom, cloud, cybersecurity, infrastructure, UCaaS, CCaaS, and SaaS.

Technology Advisory

500+

Enterprise and business engagements guided through network, communications, cloud, and security decisions.

AI Innovation

30+

AI-powered apps, automation workflows, and productivity systems built for practical business execution.

Professional Experience

20+

Sales, channel, partnerships, business development, technology consulting, and entrepreneurial execution.

Career Timeline

A career built across sales, channel, advisory, and AI execution.

The progression matters: founder mindset, enterprise selling, major account advisory, channel management, technology consulting, and hands-on AI system building.

2024 - Present

Sandler Partners

Senior Channel Manager

Responsibilities, accomplishments, impact

  • Support agents, referral partners, suppliers, and customer opportunities across telecom, cloud, cybersecurity, UCaaS, CCaaS, managed services, and SaaS categories.
  • Guide partner-led opportunities from discovery through supplier coordination, pricing comparison, proposal alignment, negotiation support, and implementation handoff.
  • Create supplier-ready requirements, side-by-side pricing matrices, and risk-aware decision frameworks that help partners and customers evaluate tradeoffs clearly.

2023 - Present

Techsonic LLC

Co-Founder & Technology Advisor

Responsibilities, accomplishments, impact

  • Built a technology advisory platform helping businesses evaluate telecom, cloud, cybersecurity, managed services, and operational technology decisions.
  • Led technology assessments, vendor comparisons, sourcing support, and business development strategy for modernization initiatives.
  • Built AI and automation workflows using APIs, cloud platforms, and automation logic to improve research, lead generation, sales operations, and partner productivity.

2022 - 2023

NEC

Channel Account Manager

Responsibilities, accomplishments, impact

  • Delivered $10M+ in channel revenue through MSP and TSD ecosystem development.
  • Increased partner engagement 40% and improved deal velocity by 25%.
  • Built executive relationships across enterprise IT and business leadership.

2017 - 2022

Konica Minolta

Major Account Executive

Responsibilities, accomplishments, impact

  • Exceeded $1.4M+ quota consistently across enterprise and Fortune 500 accounts.
  • Led complex cross-functional sales cycles integrating hardware, software, workflow solutions, and managed services.
  • Delivered 20-30% operational cost reductions through workflow and infrastructure optimization.

2013 - 2017

TPx Communications

Enterprise Business Consultant

Responsibilities, accomplishments, impact

  • Consulted with business customers on telecom, connectivity, managed services, and communications solutions.
  • Built pipeline through discovery, proposal development, and customer relationship management.
  • Supported complex technology evaluations involving cost, reliability, vendor fit, and operational impact.

2012 - 2013

Cbeyond Communications

Account Executive

Responsibilities, accomplishments, impact

  • Sold communications and business technology services to small and mid-market customers.
  • Prospected, qualified, and managed new business opportunities in competitive technology markets.
  • Built early account management discipline across discovery, objection handling, proposals, and close plans.

2005 - 2012

Nokia's R Us

Founder & CEO

Responsibilities, accomplishments, impact

  • Founded and operated an entrepreneurial technology business focused on mobile devices, customer service, sales, and operations.
  • Managed customer acquisition, inventory, service workflows, vendor relationships, and day-to-day execution.
  • Built early leadership, ownership, and problem-solving experience across business operations and customer-facing delivery.

Core Expertise

An ecosystem map instead of generic skill bars.

Hover through the map to see how channel leadership, technical fluency, and AI execution connect into one operating profile.

1

Channel Sales

Partner ecosystem execution, supplier leverage, and co-sell strategy.

Built and manage a 250+ supplier ecosystem across telecom, cloud, UCaaS, CCaaS, and security.

2

Strategic Partnerships

Recruitment, enablement, activation, and alliance development.

Supported 500+ partner-led engagements from discovery through contract execution.

3

Telecom

Connectivity, network discovery, pricing analysis, and carrier evaluation.

Produced supplier comparison matrices, invoice audits, and network design briefs for enterprise clients.

4

UCaaS / CCaaS

Communications, contact center, and customer experience solution guidance.

Built competitive evaluation frameworks across 10+ providers including RingCentral, Dialpad, Zoom, and Talkdesk.

5

Cloud

AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, managed services, and cloud modernization fluency.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. Google Cloud Computing Foundations. Active multi-cloud advisory work.

6

Cybersecurity

SASE, security fundamentals, compliance awareness, and vendor positioning.

Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. SASE and identity dependency mapping in enterprise deals.

7

AI Automation

Workflow agents, productivity systems, prompt design, and operational tooling.

Built 15+ deployed AI applications and automation workflows using Gemini, OpenAI, Claude, and n8n.

8

Revenue Operations

Process optimization, CRM workflows, data cleanup, and execution systems.

Architected lead enrichment pipelines, CRM workflows, and outbound systems at scale.

9

Solution Consulting

Executive-ready discovery, requirements mapping, and technology recommendations.

Delivered sanitized supplier matrices, pricing analyses, and executive decision briefs for named enterprise accounts.

Featured Projects

Executive case studies built around challenge, approach, and business value.

These projects show the differentiator: not just advising on technology, but building operating systems, AI workflows, and automation tools that solve real execution problems.

Live

Channel Operations Hub

Centralized AI-powered operating system built for channel managers, agents, consultants, and technology advisors to streamline opportunity management, supplier engagement, prospecting, quoting, customer intelligence, and operational execution.

Challenge

Channel professionals spend significant time switching between spreadsheets, supplier portals, email threads, CRM systems, pricing tools, carrier documentation, and customer records. Critical information becomes fragmented, slowing deal velocity, reducing visibility, and creating operational bottlenecks.

Approach

Built a secure web-based platform that consolidates AI-driven tools, workflows, and intelligence engines into a single operational hub. The platform provides centralized access to sales planning, supplier intelligence, telecom analysis, compliance tracking, lead generation, market research, customer discovery, meeting assistance, network qualification, proposal support, and AI-powered automation. The system includes application-level access controls, role-based entry, centralized navigation, cloud deployment, and an expanding library of purpose-built channel applications.

Business Value

Demonstrates the ability to architect, develop, deploy, and continuously expand a practical AI-powered business platform that increases channel productivity, accelerates opportunity execution, improves decision-making, and reduces administrative overhead.

AIChannel SalesTelecomAutomationCloud Platforms

Deployed

EmailPilot Pro

AI-powered email responder and Outlook productivity system built as a working desktop tray app, with a newer Pro client/server architecture in progress.

Challenge

Revenue and partner teams lose time triaging inboxes, summarizing threads, prioritizing follow-up, and drafting responses while still needing control, tone, and context.

Approach

Built a .NET 8 Windows tray app for Outlook with local settings, prompt management, email classification, priority scoring, summary generation, response drafting, targeting controls, analytics, diagnostics, and startup support. The newer Pro version extends the concept into a Node/Express/OpenAI-backed platform.

Business Value

Shows hands-on ability to move from AI concept to usable productivity software that improves response quality, follow-up consistency, and operator bandwidth.

AIOutlook.NETOpenAIProductivity

Deployed

Compliance Tracker Pro

AI-assisted compliance monitoring and workflow system for tracking obligations, events, risk signals, documentation, and operational follow-up.

Challenge

Compliance and operational teams often monitor changing obligations through scattered documents, manual reminders, and fragmented review processes.

Approach

Designed a structured AI-enabled tracking platform concept that organizes compliance records, monitors status, highlights risk signals, and turns review work into repeatable workflows.

Business Value

Creates a more visible and repeatable operating model for compliance tracking, escalation, and documentation readiness.

ComplianceAIWorkflow AutomationRisk TrackingOperations

Deployed

Supplier Intelligence Platform

Supplier intelligence engine for comparing providers, mapping capabilities, preparing recommendations, and improving partner sourcing decisions.

Challenge

Partner teams need faster ways to compare suppliers across pricing, coverage, product fit, technical capabilities, and customer requirements.

Approach

Built an intelligence framework that captures supplier details, market notes, eligibility factors, solution categories, and recommendation inputs for channel opportunity planning.

Business Value

Improves sourcing confidence and reduces manual research across complex partner-led opportunities.

Supplier IntelligenceChannelResearchAIPartner Ecosystem

In Progress

Meeting Wingman

AI-powered meeting intelligence platform for summaries, action items, deal notes, and follow-up execution.

Challenge

Sales and partner meetings create valuable signal, but the details often disappear into scattered notes, delayed follow-up, and inconsistent handoffs.

Approach

Built a meeting intelligence concept that converts conversations into structured summaries, action items, deal notes, follow-up plans, and execution-ready next steps.

Business Value

Turns conversations into structured action and improves follow-through across revenue, advisory, and partner workflows.

AISales EnablementProductivityMeetings

Deployed

Enterprise Intelligence Engine

AI-driven research engine for account intelligence, customer discovery, executive briefings, and strategic opportunity preparation.

Challenge

Enterprise sales and partner teams need fast, structured intelligence before customer conversations, but research is often manual and inconsistent.

Approach

Designed an AI research workflow that synthesizes account context, market signals, technology indicators, and stakeholder priorities into useful planning outputs.

Business Value

Improves preparation quality and helps teams move from generic outreach to informed advisory conversations.

AI ResearchEnterprise SalesRevenue OperationsDecision Support

In Progress

Outbound Voice Agent

Outbound AI voice workflow concept for qualification, follow-up, appointment support, and structured call intelligence.

Challenge

Outbound teams lose time on repetitive qualification and follow-up tasks that can be structured without removing human control from the sales process.

Approach

Designed a voice-agent workflow for scripted outreach, qualification capture, meeting support, escalation rules, and CRM-ready call summaries.

Business Value

Extends automation into revenue workflows while keeping human operators focused on high-value conversations.

Voice AISales AutomationCRMWorkflowAI Agents

Deployed

Telecom Analysis Hub

Workflow platform for telecom discovery, supplier evaluation, pricing analysis, and recommendation development.

Challenge

Telecom sourcing often depends on fragmented notes, supplier portals, pricing sheets, customer requirements, and manual comparison work.

Approach

Designed a structured workflow for discovery, supplier evaluation, pricing analysis, recommendation development, and executive-ready technology decision support.

Business Value

Accelerates sourcing and improves decision quality by turning telecom complexity into a repeatable advisory workflow.

TelecomVendor AnalysisPricing StrategyWorkflow Automation

Deployed

Channel Sales Planner

AI-assisted planning system for channel managers to prepare partner meetings, identify opportunities, structure follow-up, and align supplier motions.

Challenge

Channel execution can become reactive when partner meetings, supplier updates, and opportunity follow-up are not tied to a repeatable planning system.

Approach

Built a planning framework that turns partner notes, supplier priorities, pipeline context, and account signals into structured action plans.

Business Value

Creates a practical operating rhythm for partner development, co-sell execution, and follow-up accountability.

Channel SalesPartner DevelopmentAI PlanningRevenue Operations

Deployed

Lead Enrichment Platform

AI-assisted lead enrichment and data quality platform for improving prospect lists, contact accuracy, segmentation, and outreach readiness.

Challenge

Outbound campaigns suffer when lead data is stale, incomplete, poorly segmented, or disconnected from the actual buyer context.

Approach

Built lead verification and optimizer workflows to clean records, enrich contacts, improve targeting, and prepare stronger outreach inputs.

Business Value

Improves prospecting quality, reduces wasted outreach effort, and helps teams engage with better context.

Lead OpsData QualityGoogle AI StudioGTMAI

Selected Wins

Signals that matter to executives and recruiters.

$10M+ Channel Revenue

$10M+

Delivered over $10M in channel revenue at NEC through MSP and TSD ecosystem development, increasing partner engagement 40% and deal velocity 25%.

215 Contacts from 155 Accounts

215

Built a cross-referenced lead enrichment system that matched 153 of 155 target companies against an existing 36,000+ contact database and produced 215 qualified IT decision-maker contacts.

AI Hub with 15 Live Apps

15 Live Apps

Designed, built, and deployed a full-stack AI operations platform at channel-ops.com consolidating 15 purpose-built channel applications into a single authenticated hub.

Beyond Traditional Channel Sales

Channel leadership plus hands-on technical development.

I combine partner ecosystem leadership with the ability to build AI-powered systems, automation platforms, workflow engines, prospecting tools, and business applications that solve operational challenges.

This separates me from a traditional sales candidate: I understand strategy, but I can also translate the operating problem into a working tool, workflow, or technical system.

Supplier leverage

Executive discovery

AI workflow design

Automation execution

Partner enablement

Operational systems

Certifications

Credential wall for cloud, AI, cybersecurity, and partner ecosystems.

Professional development across major technology ecosystems, reinforced by cloud, security, AI, and agile credentials.

AWSGoogle CloudZoomCatoAryakaTalkdeskIntermedia11:11 SystemsFortinetMicrosoftOracleCisco

Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate

Google Cloud / Credly transcript

Issued 2026 | ACE-recommended 9 credits

Google Cloud Computing Foundations

Google Cloud / Credly transcript

Issued 2025 | ACE-recommended 6 credits

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Issued 2024 | Expires 2027

Cloud Sales Professional

Cato Networks

Issued 2025 | Expires 2027

Generative AI for Sales with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft

Issued 2025

Microsoft Security Essentials Professional Certificate

Microsoft / LinkedIn

Issued 2025

Executive Contact

Ready for channel leadership, partner development, AI builder, and advisory conversations.

For hiring managers, CROs, channel chiefs, alliance directors, technology firms, and partners looking for someone who can connect strategy with execution.