Richard Gunness

Richard Gunness has over 30 years of work experience in various roles and companies. Richard currently works at Cyviz as a Federal Sales professional. Prior to this, from 2019 to 2021, they were a Cisco Practice Manager/Business Development professional at Mission Critical Solutions. From 2017 to 2019, they served as the Federal Market Manager - Control Room Group at AVI-SPL, where they managed market operations for a global integrator and service provider of mission critical and advanced visualization solutions. Before that, from 2016 to 2017, they worked as an Account Executive - Federal/DoD at Technical Innovation, which was later acquired by Diversified. From 2013 to 2015, they held the position of Sr Account Manager - Federal/DoD at Ultra Intelligence & Communications, and from 2011 to 2013, they served as the Sector Lead - DoD/USAF/COCOM at Ultra Intelligence & Communications - Criticom. At Criticom, where they worked from 2002 to 2011, they were a Sr Account Manager - Federal/DoD, responsible for sales and integration of secure mission critical communications systems for DoD/Federal customers. Prior to that, from 1995 to 2002, they worked as a Federal Account Manager at Amerisys/MTI, providing IT solutions to intelligence community, Navy, and federal customers. Richard began their career in 1993 as a Commercial Sales Representative at MCI Communications.

Richard Gunness received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Political Science from the University of Arizona, where they studied from 1987 to 1992. In terms of certifications, they obtained the Cisco Collaboration SaaS certification from Cisco in January 2020. In May 2016, they also obtained certifications in RealPresence Platform and Polycom Video Endpoints from Polycom. Richard Gunness has additional certifications such as Small and Mid Sized Business Specialist, Telepresence Video Sales Specialist - Master, and Telepresence Video Sales Specialist for Advanced Plus from Cisco, although the specific details regarding the month and year of obtaining these certifications are not provided.