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Ryan Clair

GSD Since 2005

Education

Management Information Systems

University of Texas at Dallas

Professional Summary

Seasoned technologist (read: 19 years of experience) known for building trust, having a sharp technical mind, and building sustainable businesses. I’m a lifelong learner that prefers execution over meetings. I’ve closed historical multi-million dollar deals, increased product adoption of a net-new product over 1,000%, and drove $3M ACV in pipeline for a new route in 3 months. Passionate about AI, system design, security, and automating APIs with Python.

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Skills

  • Cross-functional Leader and Getting Stuff Done
  • Storytelling and Value Selling
  • Up-Leveling Teammates and Building Sustainable Customer Relationships
  • GTM and Sales Strategy


Experiences

Director, Business Strategy & Partner GTM Strategy

Aug 2021 - Oct 2024
VMware (Tanzu) / Broadcom, Remote

Responsibility: Initially special projects and program management for Senior BU leadership. Role evolved to GTM Partner Strategy for Azure, MSP, and CSP routes. Had in-direct reports.

Accomplishments:

  • Drove overall GTM strategy of a joint SaaS solution between VMware and Azure, unlocking 7 additional international Markets. Cross-Functional leader who aligned Sales, Marketing, PnP and Product teams across both companies. Helped prioritize product backlog, allocate marketing budgets, built sales plays, and rolled out global programs for the field. All this led to a 1,152% growth in product usage over 17 months (17% MoM).
  • Grew overall Azure Marketplace business by 800%, including the largest single deal in both company’s history.
  • Managed the MSP/CSP partners for the BU, driving $3M ACV in pipeline in 3 months

Senior Staff Solutions Engineer

April 2016 - Aug 2021
VMware, Texas

Responsibility: Pre-sales engineer for strategic enterprise customers. Owned technical relationship, pipeline and overall success of assigned customers.

Accomplishments:

  • Recognized by peers as a SME for modern apps. Built a training program on an end-to-end Kubernetes/CI CD/ChatOps demo for 100+ SEs
  • Turned 2 Enterprise Accounts around from “we don’t like VMware” to “we love VMware”
  • Consistently met or exceeded quota for 5 years straight, with numerous awards as recognition (Change Agent, EPIC2 award, etc)

Senior Solutions Engineer

April 2010 - April 2016
EMC, Texas

Responsibility: Pre-sales engineer for strategic enterprise customers. Owned technical relationship, pipeline and overall success of assigned customers.

Accomplishments:

  • Earned Platinum Player Award in 2011, Divisional SE of the Year Award in 2013, and the Divisional SE of the Quarter Award in 2014.
  • Architected and sold 2 worldwide multi-petabyte deals, one of which was the company’s largest competitive takeout.
  • Created a storage solution for a Fortune 100 global real-time mapping application.

System Integration Specialist

March 2005 - April 2010
Perot Systems / Dell Services, Texas

Responsibility: Oversaw steady-state operations for all Healthcare and Government accounts with IBM storage as a Technical Team Lead

Accomplishments:

  • Built a custom application that streamlined the billing process for client storage usage. Application eliminated the manual labor required to generate the billing report.

Artificial Intelligence, Github, Program Management, Enablement, Planning, Project Management, cloud, cloud infrastructure, process management, executive, process improvement, partner, Customer focus, sustainable revenue, key performance indicators (KPIs), high value, business planning, investment planning, business cases, business insights. This is the perfect candidate that's highly recommended