Jul 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Sydney Area

• For todays businesses to remain relevant, innovation must centre on real-time events, not just data. Much of today's data infrastructure isn't designed to work this way. Too much of it is restricting businesses capability to operate in real-time, instead of enabling it.
• Organisations need a solution built on an entirely new paradigm called event streaming, that enables data infrastructure to treat data as a continually updating stream of events. Event streaming takes the best aspects of these two different models that are built for different purposes, and builds from the ground up
• an entirely new modern technology platform. One that is highly scalable, durable, persistent, ordered & operates in real-time.
• Confluents event streaming platforms sits at the centre of applications & data infrastructure, connecting to other systems such a data warehouses, Hadoop & 3rd party & custom driven apps. With Apache Kafka at its core. Confluent operationalises and extends its power with:
• Advanced development & stream processing capabilities
• Rich operations & security features for mission critical reliability
• Freedom of choice to deploy anywhere & stream everywhere

Aug 2021 – Jul 2022 · 11 mos

Aug 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Working with businesses to put the customer at the centre of everything they do by having a single view of that customer across all touch points. At Salesforce, it's our vision to help guide sales, advise marketers, assist service agents, and direct IT leaders.
• Guiding customers through digital transformation projects leveraging Salesforce’s best in class cloud solutions. We are focused on making communities, commerce, analytics and apps more intelligent to help customers take advantage of new opportunities that emerge.

Mar 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Sydney Area

• Winners Circle Achiever: 2016, 2018
• Currently working with C-Level Executives and senior IT leaders focusing on understanding and supporting their strategic business and personal objectives.
• Delivering Gartner's trusted research, analysis and advice helps our C-level executives ensure execution on key initiatives, derive the most value from their business technology purchases and mitigate risk. Common needs we deliver against:
• ● Road Maps for Success - Leverage best practices so you don't have to reinvent the wheel
• ● Product/ Service Selection - Obtain the best pricing and terms
• ● Benchmarks - How do you compare to your peers and how does this help you justify the investment in IT
• ● Peer Networking - Access to the largest global network of IT executives
• ● Professional Development - Help you grow as a senior IT and Business leader
• Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT), is the world's leading research and advisory company and a member of the S&P 500. We equip business leaders with indispensable insights, advice and tools to achieve their mission-critical priorities and build the successful organizations of tomorrow.
• Our unmatched combination of expert-led, practitioner-sourced and data-driven research steers clients toward the right decisions on the issues that matter most. We're trusted as an objective resource and critical partner by more than 12,000 organizations in more than 100 countries—across all major functions, in every industry and enterprise size.

Jul 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater Sydney Area

• Gartner Worldwide Events is the leading producer of IT conferences globally. We produce over 60 “must attend” events across 6 continents, designed to serve the needs of the key technology roles and functions in the world’s largest corporations and government organizations.
• In 2014 our conferences have generated over 50,000 attendees, including more than 6,000 CIOs. Our audiences comprise of the world’s leading IT decision makers and buyers, which in turn attracts thousands of IT vendors as sponsors.
• At a Gartner Event, you will experience information-packed sessions led by Gartner analysts, cutting-edge technology showcases, peer exchange workshops, Gartner Analyst One-on-One Meetings, consulting diagnostic workshops, keynotes by technology’s top leaders and much more.
• Key Events planned for 2015 in Australia / New Zealand include but are not limited to;
• ► Business Intelligence, Analytics & Information Management Summit
• ► IT Infrastructure, Operations & Data Center Summit
• ► Business Process Management Summit
• ► Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit
• ► Security & Risk Management Summit
• ► Gartner Symposium ITxpo
• Key Achievements:
• 2016 Winners Circle Qualifier

Apr 2013 – Mar 2014 · 11 mos

• FiberLight is a premier provider of mission critical, high performance fiber optic network services for enterprise, government and the wholesale telecommunications market with multiple data communications networking needs. FiberLight delivers broadband Internet solutions over a $1 billion diverse optical ring typology network encompassing more than 500,000 miles of fiber optic cable which it owns, builds and performs 24-hour network monitoring 365 days a year, providing best in class network security and business continuity network solutions. Our portfolio of products includes High Bandwidth transport, Internet Protocol (IP) services, Content Delivery, Longhaul Transport, and Metro Ethernet connectivity. The LightSource family of products includes Ethernet, Dedicated IP, Managed Wavelengths and Dark Fiber, which provides 10Mbps 100Gbps connectivity.
• NAM Responsibilities:
• Hunt new logos and customers
• Manage my existing account base, renewals and upgrades
• Develop relationships with existing partners and cultivate relationships with new partners
• Liase with local data centers
• Work with local and remote operations teams to ensure smooth service delivery
• I was also involved with the development of new processes for the sales organization as well as the development and roll out of a new Salesforce platform for the company. I was seen as a "go-to" sales person for articulate and relevant feedback on internal processes related to sales and training.
• I was also one of two NAMs to fully utilize the NAM program associated with our Carrier team and drove revenue growth collaboration with multiple carriers on a local level.

May 2011 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

• FiberLight is a premier provider of mission critical, high performance fiber optic network services for enterprise, government and the wholesale telecommunications market with multiple data communications networking needs. FiberLight delivers broadband Internet solutions over a $1 billion diverse optical ring typology network encompassing more than 500,000 miles of fiber optic cable which it owns, builds and performs 24-hour network monitoring 365 days a year, providing best in class network security and business continuity network solutions. Our portfolio of products includes High Bandwidth transport, Internet Protocol (IP) services, Content Delivery, Longhaul Transport, and Metro Ethernet connectivity. The LightSource family of products includes Ethernet, Dedicated IP, Managed Wavelengths and Dark Fiber, which provides 10Mbps 100Gbps connectivity.

Mar 2010 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Cbeyond is a leading broadband, mobile voice and data, IT, and business phone service provider built exclusively to serve the communication needs of small businesses across the US. As one of the leading voice, data, and broadband providers, we work exclusively with a growing entrepreneurial class of small business owners to provide an integrated bundle of business-grade services that include web hosting, cloud servers, email, data back-up and security, voicemail, and more. Cbeyond's value is in its simplicity and superior customer support. Our goal is to offer you a comprehensive solution – one that’s customized for you!
• My role at Cbeyond entails:
• Maintain a designated territory while meeting a sales quota
• Educate potential customers on Cbeyond service, technology and company history
• Keep abreast of developing company and industry technology to be a knowledgeable sales person
• Develop knowledge of Cbeyond products and services as well as competitor products and services to properly position Cbeyond to potential customers
• For more information on Cbeyond or its products and services please contact me via email at jennifer.powers@cbeyond.net or on my mobile phone at (954) 483-9517