Brett Dean

Achieved / exceeded quota each year, managing the solution sales and service delivery of Microsoft-based technology in my assigned accounts (Amazon, Boeing, Costco, T-Mobile, Ziply Fiber) - typically six, seven and sometimes part of larger eight figure projects.

Successfully led team of six Alliance Business Managers across North America. Delivered $1.2B in 'sell-with' revenue for HP (became HPE) and Microsoft. Activities I led included large strategic alliance events, joint Microsoft-HPE Executive Briefings in Palo Alto and Redmond and large customer enterprise solution briefings.

Solution Owner for MSSolve, a Dynamics CRM based service and support platform and set of applications for Worldwide Customer and Technical Support (22k users). Led team of five solution managers and a budget of $100M over 3 years.

Led the initial team of Dynamics CRM consultants and engineers at Avanade who designed MSSolve v1.0. Ultimately was recruited by Microsoft IT to join and take over the program from the former Director who left.

Principal founder and owner of NetVersant Solutions - a national communications and networking company start-up with headquarters in Houston, TX. I was responsible for the Seattle division network services practice as well as national IT. Focused accounts/projects included Port of Seattle, City of Bellevue, City of Seattle, and Washington Mutual Financial Services. Ultimately I spun of the network services division during the 'DotCom bust' to focus on Small Office Home Office and Business solutions in the local Seattle area during this recession period.

Principal and Director for the networking and system engineering practice within Excell Data, a division of Cambridge that focused on Microsoft-based technologies and software services. Successfully contributed to grow business from zero to $40M before CTP purchased Excell Data in 1999.

Lead for successfully implementing a 130-store POS design and deployment based on a combination of Novell NetWare and Microsoft Windows PCs across the US.

Successfully led and upgraded / maintained the wide-area network between six-region Financial Services division offices that were responsible for the the leasing and financing of Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks across the US.

After demonstrating great proficiency on the phones supporting Agency Automation systems, I was asked to take on lead for designing and implementing Novell NetWare-based PC LAN systems for over 40 agencies around the country ...a true pioneer of networks pre-Internet.