Jeff Mery

CEO

Austin, Texas, United States26 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building high-performing technical teams.
  • Proven track record in customer acquisition and retention.
  • Extensive experience across multiple customer verticals.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and IT services leader with a focus on customer success and technical growth.

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Disaster RecoveryStorage Area NetworksStorage VirtualizationEnterprise SoftwareIntegrationEnterprise ArchitectureIT StrategyBusiness IntelligenceBusiness AnalysisSoftware Project ManagementSolution ArchitectureSQLUnixPre-salesIT Management

About

Building world-class customer-facing technical teams one individual at a time. Seasoned leader with a highly successful track record in the information technology and services industry. History of developing successful and efficient leaders, teams, and processes. Experience with a large number of customer verticals including technology, retail, travel/logistics, oil & gas, manufacturing, and medical. Practical, hands-on knowledge across a wide variety of IT-related practices and technologies including, but not limited to the following: DevOps culture and processes, Agile/Lean methodologies, CI/CD, Application Delivery, container technologies, virtualization, storage, and cloud platforms.

Experience

26 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
2 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Aiven

2 roles

SVP Customer Growth

Promoted

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area · Remote

  • Globally leading all aspects of Sales, Pre-Sales, Technical Account Management, and Support.

VP Customer Growth

Dec 2023Oct 2024 · 10 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area · Remote

  • Driving all aspects of customer acquisition, adoption, growth, and retention through strong and agile customer-facing technical teams.

Bison hta

Owner

Dec 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Owner. Delivering the best possible audio for your home theater.

Progress

2 roles

Vice President of Customer Success

Promoted

Dec 2021Dec 2023 · 2 yrs · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Sr. Director, Global Customer Technical Services

Oct 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • I'm excited to be leading two additional business functions as part of the Progress acquisition of Chef Software! Customer Technical Services is comprised of three functions: Global Sales Engineering, Global Professional Services, and Global Customer Architecture (the technical side of our Customer Success program). These three functions are the primary technical interaction path for our customers and prospects. The Customer Technical Services team is responsible for establishing a technical fit for our solutions with prospects, initial implementation of all Chef solutions for our customers, and delivering customer business outcomes in the short, mid, and long terms.

Chef software

4 roles

VP of Global Sales Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

Senior Director - Global Sales Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2018Dec 2018 · 5 mos

Manager Solutions Architects - Central US

Nov 2017Jun 2018 · 7 mos

  • >110% attainment to date
  • Successfully established new Central sales region
  • Recruited and hired 4 presales resources (2 backfill + 2 net-new)
  • Continually improving customer-facing practices and processes across a wide variety of areas including training, adoption, solution demo environments/processes, POCs/POVs, and professional services

Field Solution Architect

Apr 2016Nov 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • > 100% attainment above plan
  • Delivered ARR growth through existing account consumption as well as net-new account acquisition
  • Developed new sales motion that has become the company standard go-to-market play

Emc

2 roles

Area Manager, Systems Engineers, TOLA Enterprise Accounts

Sep 2011Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • 111% Average attainment over last 5 years
  • HiPo Manager - 2015, 2016
  • Selected to train Sales Reps attending New Hire - 2015, 2016
  • Account base includes ~200 Enterprises/SPs in numerous sectors: Energy, Finance,
  • Technology, Retail, Medical, & Transportation
  • Successfully transitioned SE team from hardware to software-centric selling motion
  • Drove extensive hardware/software POC activity across under-pen and existing account
  • base achieving an 84% win rate at $1.3MM average deal revenue over 3 years
  • Developed and drove strategic technical sales campaigns to protect and grow business
  • year over year
  • Proven history of recruiting and retaining top SE talent

Advisory Presales System Engineer

Oct 2010Sep 2011 · 11 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Achieved 105% attainment
  • Architected data protection software and hardware solutions for enterprise accounts § Drove customer requirements to assist in RFP development and response
  • Deployed non-traditional use-cases to creating net-new lines of revenue opportunity § Assisted fellow SEs with technical issues, sizing, and competitive situations
  • Worked to improve TCE through active support and escalation management

Nomad athletics llc

Managing Partner

Jul 2010Dec 2016 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Greater Houston

  • Nomad Athletics LLC specializes in healthy living and a fitness-based lifestyle.

National instruments

5 roles

Web Systems Team Manager

Promoted

Oct 2009Oct 2010 · 1 yr · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Managed global team of 7 responsible for delivering the ni.com customer experience
  • Improved inter and intra-department trust through increased transparency
  • Initiated transition from traditional waterfall to DevOps-based web application culture
  • Drove simplification of ni.com architecture to reduce footprint by ~%40

DCS Team Lead

Apr 2005Oct 2009 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Managed global data center consolidation program saving ~$6MM over 7 years
  • Delayed $1.8MM data center expansion by 24 months through infrastructure optimization
  • Reduced operating costs by ~$950K over 4 years via enterprise VMware implementation
  • Reduced recurring costs related to system data protection by $500K over 5 years
  • Improved average data recovery time by nearly 75%
  • Reduced e-mail infrastructure systems overhead by 40%

Windows Team Lead

Promoted

Jan 2004Feb 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Managed global and domestic projects for 4-member team
  • Managed creation and execution of annual team budgets
  • Reduced Oracle development refresh downtime by 91%
  • Implemented co-location facility in Ireland including datacenter migration

Windows System Administrator

Promoted

Jun 2000Jan 2004 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Designed and implemented data center for major manufacturing facility in Hungary
  • Reduced Windows domain management overhead by 50%
  • Reduced client maintenance/management overhead for Oracle 11i ERP systems
  • Increased resiliency of Perforce SCM solution used in core product development

Programmer/Analyst

Jun 1999Jun 2000 · 1 yr · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

  • Reduced Oracle Customer Merge (data integrity process) runtime by 87.5%
  • Revamped customer invoices and enhanced company image through implementation of
  • print layout software package

Education

Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business

Bachelor’s Degree — MIS

Jan 1995Jan 1999

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