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RESUME

MICHAEL D. SULLIVAN
1116 Pine Grove Drive
Alpharetta, GA 30004

Phone: 770-410-1170 E-mail: MSull72082@cs.com
Fax: 770-664-5498

SENIOR EXECUTIVE - TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY

High-Growth Organizations

Sales Management

 

Education

     
Strategic Sales & Market Planning   MBA University of South Carolina
Executive Sales Presentations & Negotiations   BS Clemson University
Technology-Based Marketing & Promotion    
New Market Development    
Consultative, Solutions-Based Sales Management    

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PNI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Norcross, Georgia
2000 to 2001

(Enhanced services applications software)

 

 
  National Sales Manager
 

Recruited by President/CEO to ignite sales, expand market coverage, launch new product and strengthen competitive position. Given full responsibility for creating sales strategies and campaigns, designing marketing and advertising collaterals, recruiting and training professional sales team.

 

 

Sales of voice messaging, voice mail to e-mail, e-mail notification, text to speech, ISP (POP #3), and paging applications to PCS, Cellular, Paging Carriers and enterprise markets. PNI developed an intelligent Digital Access Cross-connect Switch, which housed and ran multiple applications and provided an API for other vendor applications to interface with the database. Internet connectivity was the key to cost control of back haul costs and to building wide area systems.

 

 

Re-capitalization attempt failed, stopping all development, manufacturing and sales and marketing efforts.

 

RTS WIRELESS, Plainview, New York
1998 to 2000

(Enhanced services and Internet based applications)

 

 
 

South East Regional Manager

 

Sales of Internet based enhanced services applications to Paging, PCS, Cellular and enterprise markets. RTS was an early developer of e-mail filtering, e-mail notification to pagers and PCS phones. Internet based messaging and inter-carrier networking for wide area coverage. First to introduce text to speech for reading e-mails over PCS and Cell phones as an application for ISP's.

 

 
  • Personal sales were 123% of quota for 1998
  • Personal sales were 145 % of quota for 1999.
  • Personal sales were 136% of quota in 2000.
  • Introduced RTS products to International markets in Europe and Asia.
  • Major paging customers included PageNet, WebLink Wireless, VAST Systems, SkyTel.
  • PCS carriers included GTE Mobile Net, AllTel, SBC, BellSouth.

 

MIRACOM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
1994 to 1998

(Paging applications software and alarm monitoring)

 

 
 

Director Sales and Marketing

 

Full strategic planning, budgeting, marketing, administration, and sales for a partnership importing product from Europe. Target markets were paging carriers, public utility operations and tower site management companies.

 

 
  • Created business plan, marketing plan, literature, trade show booth and advertising campaign.
  • Successfully sold emergency notification into Nuclear Power Industry.
  • Sold Xerox Canada National Maintenance Operations center 90 position LAN based notification system.
  • Miami Dade Water and Sewer standardized on Miracom Autopage for all alarm monitoring requirements.
  • Performance to quota ranged from 87% to 115% of quota.

 

GLENAYRE ELECTRONICS, Atlanta, Georgia
1982 to 1994

(Voice Messaging, Paging Control Terminals, RF Systems)

 

 
 

Director Strategic Relationships

(1993 to 1994)

Director of Voice Messaging Sales (1991 to 1993)
Director International Sales (1986 to 1991)
Director RBOC Sales (1984 to 1986)

Regional Sales Manager

(1982 to 1984)
 

Selling Paging control Terminals, Voice Messaging systems and RF infrastructure to Paging Carriers, Telephone Companies and Service Bureaus. Began with an 11 state territory generating sales of 2.5 million dollars, grew to 4 million in sales to RBOC's and to 11 million per year to International customers. Developed an International sales and support staff of 7 and International representative group of 8 companies.

 

 
  • Achieved category 1 purchasing status with RBOC's - ordering from negotiated contracts.
  • Negotiated 3-year contract with NTT for RF equipment. Generated 20 million dollars over the period.
  • Negotiated 3-year representation agreement with Matshusta Electric for paging system sales in Japan.
  • Major sales in Europe through representatives selling to Spain, Kuwait, UK, and Scandinavian PTT's.
  • Built voice-messaging sales from $1.5 million to $7.2 million.
  • Performance ranged from 135% to 245% of quota every year.
  • Established relationship with Nokia for development of SS-7 interface for voice messaging system and future functionality development.

 

MOTOROLA C&E, South Carolina and Virginia
1977 to 1982

(Federal Government Sales)

 

 
  Senior Account Executive
 

Selling all products Motorola offered to all Federal Agencies. Concentrating on Military bases.

 

 
  • Performance ranged from 103% to 142% of quota.
  • Sold the first Energy Management System to Shaw Air Force Base.
  • Developed the justification process making sales easier in all market locations.

 

US ARMY

 

1968 to 1976
  Honorable discharge as Captain.

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