G. MICHAEL OTTO
175 Highland Parkway -- Rochester, New York 14620-2544
716.473.5211 -- CELL 201.280.7313


Seeking management/sales opportunity - current/future technology - Northeastern United States

Accomplished Sales Executive. Able to absorb complex technology and convey conceptually to non-technical buyers. Expertise in problem analysis, corrective action, decision making, and short- and long-term objectives.

Personal strengths include a passionate customer advocacy, strong consultative selling skills, tenacious research ability.


Special Training
Technologies
Employment Chronology
Selected Career Achievements
Education
Additional Data

Special Training
Sun Microsystems Competency 2000, Expert Level 2000 Certification, 1994
Java Sales Certification, Enterprise 10000 Certification, 1997
Sun Cluster Certification, 1998
Clark Technical College, Business Administration Courses, 1983
Xerox, Professional Selling Skills III, 1985
 
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TECHNOLOGIES
HARDWARE
Sun Microsystems Servers - Workgroup thru Data Center
CISCO, Bay Networks, Fore Systems, RND Systems, 3com, Network General
 
SOFTWARE
Solaris OS
Solstice network management products - Solstice security products (FireWall-1, SunScreen)
SunSoft development software
Java
Veritas - Raptor - Security Dynamics - BMC Patrol - Dazzel
Panasonic Video Network Server - RealNetworks Video Server - VXtreme Video Server
Netscape Server Software - Lotus Notes - ACT! - GoldMine
IRE/Campaign! from Mercantile Software Systems (data warehouse software) - Brio - Sybase - Oracle Applications
 
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Selected Career Achievements

SALES AND MANAGEMENT

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RESEARCH/ANALYSIS

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EMPLOYMENT CHRONOLOGY
2002 to Present
Shred-It, Inc.
Williamsville, New York
Sales Representative
Shred-It is the leading onsite document destruction company. Working remotely in Rochester local area.
  • Developing own sales leads
  • Cold calling
  • Telemarketing
  • Demonstrating system to prospective customers.
2000 to 2001
TotalEcare, Inc.
Edison, New Jersey
Sales Manager
Restructured, June 2001
TotalEcare is a small startup company with plans to develop a systems management software package in 2001.
  • Developing sales strategy
  • Developing marketing strategy
1999
Cerebellum Software, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
New York Regional Sales Manasger
Restructured 1999
Cerebellum Software is a software company with a data access toolkit.
  • Developed New York Metro territory
  • Identified potential customers in the Fortune 1000 space
  • Provided feedback to development organization
1997 to 1998
SoftCom, Inc.
Iselin, New Jersey
Director, Systems Sales
Company sold, Product withdrawn
SoftCom is a small software company attempting to develop a streaming video based distance learning system. Sales are approx $2MM.
  • Sold largest custom development project - $1MM
  • Drove the system redevelopment from Wintel to Java
  • Reestablished strong working partnership with Panasonic
  • Facilitated Panasonic Personal Computer Systems Sales Company (PCSSC) in becoming a Sun Proprietary Software Value Added Reseller
  • Mentored Panasonic PCSSC salesforce in systems sales strategies
1995 to 1997
LANcomp, Inc.,
Piscataway, New Jersey

Sales Manager
LANcomp is a $20MM network-centric systems integrator with strong partnerships with Sun Microsystems and Cisco.
  • Drove the decision to become Sun Competency 2000 certified
  • Ramped sales from $1.5MM to $5 MM
  • #1 producer, consistently exceeded targets by at least 25%
  • Opened New York City office
  • Worked with customers to design and implement enterprise solutions based on Sun and Solaris
  • Designed, sized, detailed and sold $2MM custom online system for secure internet access to IRE-based search system with a Sybase backend
  • Products included Sun hardware, H/A software, internet software, firewalls, web sites, network management, network monitoring and reporting software, custom development, system administration services
1990 to 1995
Mercantile Software Systems, Inc.
Piscataway, New Jersey

Sales Manager
Mercantile is a $12MM ISV (Intependent Software Vendor) specializing in database marketing systems part of the data warehousing marketplace. The IRE (Information Retrieval Engine) enables fast multi-dimensional queries against off-the-shelf relational database products, a breakthrough technologically that has yet to be duplicated. They were acquired in 1997 by HarteHanks Data Technologies.
  • Ramped product sales from $0 to $2MM
  • Sold first $1MM IRE/Campaign! marketing data management system
  • Set strategic direction -- Instrumental in the decision for Mercantile to become a product company
  • Identified technology to be productized as the Information Retrieval Engine
  • Coached development efforts
  • Identified 3rd Party data analysis tools for integration into product offering
1989 to 1990
Quadratron Systems Inc.,
Westlake Village, California

Territory Sales Manager
Quadratron was the first UNIX-based office automation ISV.
  • Exceeded goal by 36%
1989
Stephen Dunn & Associates,
Rochester, New York

Telemarketing Sales Representative
Stephen Dun & Associates is a national telemarketing firm specializing in performing arts organizations membership drives and subscription campaigns.
  • Top caller - 150% of goal
1978 to 1988
Varityper Division,
AM International

Eastern Regional Systems Sales
Specialist.,
New York, New York
National Systems Sales Specialist.,
East Hanover, New Jersey
Branch Sales Manager,
Rochester, New York
Area Sales Manager,
Columbus, Ohio
Product Specialist,
St Louis, Missouri
Senior Sales Representative,
Dayton, Ohio
Varityper was the typesetting and text processing division of AM International, a Fortune 100 company specializing in the graphic arts industry.
  • Consistently exceeded goals between 12 and 35%
1978
Typographic Insight,
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Production Supervisor
Typographic Insight was a small, private, trade typesetting and graphic arts service company.
  • Supervised six production personnel
  • Responsible for the timely production of three Ford Motor Company publications
1969 to 1977
House of Type & Design,
Springfield, Ohio

Owner, responsible for sales,
production, management
Award winning graphic design studio and trade typesetting service.
  • Probably the most fun I've had in my working life.
1965 to 1969
Dayton Typographic Service/
Typonics Corporation,

Dayton, Ohio

Production Manager
Dayton Typographic Service was the largest trade typesetting company in Ohio and one of the largest in the midwest. They provided a trade service to the printing and publishing industry. Typonics Corporation was a forward-looking subsidiary of Dayton Typographic which pioneered in the "cold" type business.
  • Progressively more responsibility
  • Supervised three production persons
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EDUCATION
Wittenberg University, A.B., 1965, Springfield, Ohio
International Relations, major; Fine Arts minor
Arndt-Gymnasium Dahlem, Berlin, Germany
General Coursework
 
ADDITIONAL DATA
Will travel extensively
Speak Fluent German
Rochester Area Mensa, Past President
Excellent references will be furnished upon establishment of mutual interest
 
Send email to Mike Otto
motto@frontiernet.net

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