James S.

James S. has worked in various roles in the IT industry since 2005. In 2005, they were an Account Executive at CEC, where they were part of a newly formed team to on-board students into an online schooling environment. From 2006 to 2016, they worked at Olympus Futures, where they were a Junior Account Executive, Account Executive, and Senior Account Executive. In these roles, they sold brokerage services, third party platform SaaS, and technology for retail and institutional traders. From 2016 to 2018, they were an Information Technology Account Manager at Sentinel Technologies, where they worked with mid-size businesses to enterprise clients, selling managed service and project-based transactions. In 2018, they were a Senior Business Development Executive at Sogeti, part of Capgemini, where they worked with Fortune 500 and enterprise customers on a range of technology and engineering services. James also worked as a National Account Manager at ACP CreativIT, where they were in a hunter role bringing on new logos to expand ACP. Finally, since 2020, they have been the Head Of Business Development at Red Echoes Tech, where they work with many types of businesses in the SMB space, particularly in highly regulated environments.

James S. has a Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration, Management and Operations with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Phoenix. James has also obtained a number of certifications, including AWS TCO and Cloud Economics and AWS Technical Professional from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in May 2019, G Suite for Education: Sales Credential Exam from Google in November 2018, HPE Sales Certified - Hybrid IT, Intelligent Edge, and Services [2018] from Pearson VUE in June 2018, Veeam Sales Professional (VMSP) from Veeam Software in May 2018, AWS Business Professional Online from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in December 2017, G Suite Administrator Fundamentals from Coursera in December 2017, Lean Six Sigma White Belt Certified from the Management and Strategy Institute in September 2017, NSE 1 Network Security Associate and NSE 2 Network Security Associate from Fortinet in December 2019, Accredited Sales Executive (ASE): Foundation Accreditation Exam from Palo Alto Networks in July 2018, and Cisco Business Value Analyst from Cisco in June 2017. James also has a series 3 certification from the NFA.