Senior Technology Sales Executive
Highly motivated and resourceful, top producing sales executive with proven history of success in complex sales to commercial building and data center markets. Operates effectively at VP & CXO levels. Easily assimilates complex technologies and offerings. Expert at account strategy and winning new business. Identifies the right opportunities, understands business drivers and successfully navigates through an aligned sales/buying cycle. Exceptional presentation, negotiation, and executive relationship development acumen.
Specialties: High performance sales and sales team building, sales strategy, data center server and storage hardware and software, mechanical & electrical systems, building energy efficiency, contract management, CRM (salesforce & Zoho), executive leadership, market strategy, needs analysis, new business development, presentation skills and proposal writing,
Global Data Center & Colocation Solutions Advisor @ Digital Realty Trust is the world leader in design & construction, acquisitions, repositioning and managment of technology-related real estate. The company is focused on providing Turn-Key Datacenter™ and Powered Base Building™ datacenters for domestic and international tenants across a variety of industry verticals ranging from information technology and internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services. Digital Realty Trust's 72 properties with 12 million square feet, Digital Realty Trust's portfolio is in 27 markets in North America and Europe.
Over 50 Fortune 500 companies rely on Digital Realty Trust to provide their datacenter solutions. Our customers include leading media, financial services, communications and technology businesses that require advanced datacenter facilities that incorporate sophisticated power and cooling architectures, multi-layered security and enhanced fire suppression systems to support their mission critical applications. From February 2015 to December 2015 (11 months) Austin, Texas AreaPrincipal @ Facilities Marketing provides sales & marketing strategy & execution for companies that sell technology hardware, software and services to the commercial building and data center markets. From October 2012 to February 2015 (2 years 5 months) Energy Solutions Sales Executive, State Government @ I worked with the Governors of the States of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, their administrations and all state agencies to help shape state energy policies and lead the development of energy management and efficiency initiatives for state owned and occupied facilities. Led the sales effort through the entire process of ESCO performance contracting. From May 2011 to September 2012 (1 year 5 months) Vice President Sales, Convia @ Developed, trained and led sales team that included 5 direct reports and over 300 alliance partner sales persons. Built a solutions partner alliance and distribution to deliver advanced energy efficiency and energy management solutions to the commercial buildings & data center market. Developed and executed multi-faceted go to market strategy focused on specifying smart building solutions with engineering, consulting, facilities and utilities professionals. Established relationships with key internal executives and the Global Account Management team to deliver a turnkey facilities infrastructure solutions. From July 2008 to May 2011 (2 years 11 months) Principal @ Developed global sales & marketing strategy for enterprise computing & storage group of a $12 billion Enterprise Computing & Storage products manufacturer. Marketing strategy included developing complete product specifications for server and storage product line and multi-faceted go to market strategy. Sales strategy focused on direct approach to tier one and two OEM’s (IBM, HP, Dell, Sun, FSC, NEC, Hitachi & Fujitsu, EMC and Network Appliance), representing over 80% of the global total available market. From September 2005 to July 2008 (2 years 11 months) Director, Global Sales & Marketing @ Top line sales and marketing responsibility for $2.2 billion Enterprise Computing & Storage division. Developed worldwide sales and marketing strategy for OEM, direct and channel routes to market. Hired and trained two sales teams (9 direct reports, 15 indirect), for OEM and channels in Americas and EMEA. Matrix management of over 100 sales people worldwide. Achieved organic revenue growth in new enterprise server business from $3.2M in FY’03 to $197M in FY’05. Developed senior executive relationships with Tier One and Two OEM’s and distributors (N.A., EMEA and APAC). From 2003 to 2005 (2 years) Director, Business Development @ Vieo was a venture funded technology startup developing enterprise class, high speed interconnect software for Infiniband technology. I was responsible for enterprise OEM software business development and sales. In a short period of time, licensed to several companies. (Note: I left when company shifted business strategy, placing them back into R&D status for minimum of 1 year. From 2001 to 2003 (2 years) Executive Vice President @ Led self-funded revenue growth from $2.3M to $25.4M. Net income averaged 14%. Secured multi-million dollar contracts that included NEC, Ericsson, Nokia, Fidelity Investments and FEDEX. Led “premier page” initiative (client extranets), increasing revenue ($9 million) and gross margin by 16%. Developed N.A. channel strategy increasing revenue by $5 million while positioning company for long-term growth. Developed framework for customer facing web app that improved customer deployment time frames by over 75%. From 1995 to 2001 (6 years) Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Engineering Science and Business Mgmt @ SUNY Farmingdale From 1981 to 1983 Sean Maguire is skilled in: Strategy, Data Center, Cloud Computing, Sales Management, Sales, Business Development, Executive Management, Start-ups, Leadership, Energy Management, New Business Development, Complex Sales, Management, CRM, Social Media