Brian O'Connor (Fractional CMO)

Founder and President

The TalentHQ

We help you get the best talent in LatAm, in 53% the time.

Roles we place every week:
➟ Account Managers
➟ Customer Success
➟ Graphic Designers
➟ Project Managers
➟ Virtual Assistants
➟ Exec Assistants
➟ Data entry
➟ Sales

📞 Want talent?

Get in touch by:
Message me the word “talent” on LinkedIn
or
Book a free consultation call:
https://calendly.com/brianfoconnor/free-talent-consultation

Chat soon 👋

Founder, CEO

Outlier Growth

Join 14k+ subscribers to Outlier Growth. Every Thursday, you'll get 1 tip to grow your business with digital marketing and build a raving customer-base.

Founder

Monitor Deloitte

Senior Consultant, Growth Strategy

GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS)

Research large aircraft debt market to determine where we could provide solutions to specific airlines to improve cash flow or reduce costs
Create debt and leasing models in Excel to understand client valuations of our bids
Support sales team by taking inbound aircraft lease inquiries and qualifying them for follow-up
Analyze data to help guide the sales team for potential opportunities and assist in deal analytics

Commercial Leadership Program - Sales

Developed research to uncover financing opportunities and estimate market attractiveness
Compiled comprehensive recommendations of key findings and strategies to execute
Developed streamlined quarterly P&L presentation for GECAS

Commercial Leadership Program - Strategy and Marketing

GE Capital

Performed competitor analysis, financial projections, brand research, and analyzed personal financial statements
Wrote credit analysis for approval of proposed franchise customer loan requests
Underwent traditional commercial credit training

Commercial Leadership Program - Underwriter

ALPFA Holy Cross Chapter

Oversee new member recruitment and lead all meetings and events
Coordinate executive board duties including marketing campaigns and budget management
Develop relationships with corporate sponsors

Developed reporting for in-store credit acquisition by selling floor associates
Created a process for tracking results in a store test for greeters
Completed analysis for sales incentive compensation
Collected hourly application data for 28 days across 1,062 stores and created a report to maximize store visit efficiency

Commercial Leadership Program Sales Intern

Sentinel Benefits & Financial Group

Research and analysis of competitors and potential acquisitions
Sentinel product and client analytics
Design and produce reports off Microsoft Dynamics, FRx, and SalesLogix

Financial Analyst Intern

Perfect Fuel Chocolate

Took charge of several marketing projects, developed social media promotions, and sold product at local events
Refined the company’s financial projection model which was used in raising capital
Created an order fulfillment process and operated/refined the Zoho CRM system
2013 asked by the CEO to assist in weekend sales presentations and demonstrations

Business Operations Intern

Follow me for digital marketing tips | Advised 100+ executives to grow their business | Ex-Deloitte | On a mission to give 1M business owners the growth tools they can't access today | CMO for $5M+ B2B businesses

TalentHQ gets you the best talent in Latin America. FAST.

We have a pool of 25,000 candidates ready to go.

Roles we place every week:
➟ Account Managers
➟ Customer Success
➟ Graphic Designers
➟ Project Managers
➟ Virtual Assistants
➟ Exec Assistants
➟ Data entry
➟ Sales
+ more

How?
I spent 6 years as a management consultant building systems for Fortune 500s.

We have those systems ready to copy/paste into your business.

Don’t know how to:
➟ Onboard?
➟ Manage?
➟ Motivate?
➟ Pay talent?
➟ Design their role?

We do all that for you.

We get you the best talent. And you get pain-free hiring.

FAST.

But don’t take my word for it.

Hear what our clients have to say 👇

“We sent an offer to that Webflow dev you sent us. Insane find. Incredible talent. 30% lower in monthly than we said.”
- Sam Preston, CEO of Service Scalers

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“I could NOT be happier with the 3 hires I made from you for Cashflowy. Those 3 ladies work brilliantly together and are SLAYING.

Time for the next hire. The bar is now SKY HIGH!”
- Heidi DeCoux, CEO of Cashflowy

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“Great hire! She’s very communicative, on top of all her tasks and hungry to take on new work."
- Ross Beyeler, COO of Trellis

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“From tip to tail, they walked us through everything we needed to do, quickly found two amazing candidates out of about five that we interviewed, I think less than two weeks.

They took us through the entire onboarding, helped us with training SOPs, getting the new employees set up. Can't recommend them enough. We'll be definitely using them in the future for any offshore talent needs.”
- Ryan Bishop, CEO of Rho Nutrition

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“TalentHQ helped me find my first international contractor and I literally could not recommend them enough. They were incredible to work with great people. 

They helped me with any little question I had about managing, onboarding, and maintaining this contractor and our relationship that we have.”
- Ethan Ferguson, CEO of Grotto Digital

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Ready to get the best of LatAm in your business, fast?

APPLY FOR A FREE CONSULTATION.

I’ll take a look at your systems, copy / paste our proven systems, and help you design the role to help your business skyrocket.

Systems include:
➟ SOPs
➟ Onboarding
➟ Task management
➟ Management frameworks

Oh btw.

If months later you find out that person isn’t a fit?

We’ll swap them out no questions asked (for free).

Apply here:
https://calendly.com/brianfoconnor/free-talent-consultation

P.S. Don’t need to hire and just want the systems consulting?

Click my featured section to book a consultation ($1,250)

Thales

Part of Digital Identity & Security (DIS) Group focused on Enterprise Customers.

Solutions Architect

VMware

•  Focus on Pre-selling Carbon Black Security Software to strategic/enterprise clients, Building Channel Relationships, and Facilitating Technological Evolution to Data and Security products.

Enterprise Solutions Engineer

• Continue to use Endpoint Technology and Software knowledge to implement Cloud Security Solutions.
• Discover new use cases for Prospects and serve as SME for existing Customer scenarios.
• Pioneer Solution Training through White Papers and by leading Technical Initiatives.

Senior Solutions Engineer

• Lead technical Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) for endpoint technology.
• Mentor engineers on product mastery, demo execution, and pre-sales cycle delivery.

POC Solutions Engineer

• Part of Carbon Black Security Business Unit.
• Provide technical solution expertise on VMware EDR Cloud Security products and build operational rapport with global sales teams.

Demo Solutions Engineer

Webex

Ambassador

Cisco

• Pursue Automation on Cisco and other cloud platform (ServiceNow) through API Integrations while gathering valuable insights with AI/DL.

Software Consultant

• Research and Develop Technology related to AI/ML and Security to enhance Cisco's competitive edge.
• File patents for Secret Obfuscation Manager (SOM), Arshad Data Encryption Protocol (ADEP), ICT (Isla Compression Technique), and ISLA (Iterative and Selective Lexical Analysis).

Software Engineer Intern (R&D)

• Develop on ServiceNow (PaaS) Platform to quantify database health and to monitor configuration item (CI) information.
• Script and deploy interactive Machine Learning scripts on ServiceNow platform predicting business-applications for software running on various servers, reducing application ownership-tracking time.
• Pursue Tableau development to deliver diverse and continuous insights to leadership.

Data Engineer Intern

• Liaison between Cisco and NC State University.

Campus Ambassador

• Lead an intern team in building a chat bot to automate employee inquiries for Global Infrastructure Services (GIS), expected to save a record $300,000 per year.
• Assist in automating ASR-1004 routers to prevent telephony Denial-of-Service (tDoS) attacks.
• Assist in building a web interface to quantify IP Phone numbers for VoIP teams in Global Infrastructure Services (GIS).

Software Engineer Intern

Progress

• Enhance a web application for storing and managing ODBC and JDBC driver information.
• Use GitHub expertise to help transition development teams from Perforce.
• Provide insights to connect Progress corporate relations with NC State.

NC State College of Engineering

• Advisor: Dr. Noboru Matsuda
• CSC 499: Study test-taking behaviors in introductory computer science courses.

Senior Research Associate

Producktiv

• Lead an on-site technical squad to research/implement novel ideas and build strong cross-team culture to promote business resiliency.
• Troubleshoot technical/non-technical issues within the existing product between local and remote development teams.
• Help improve software to allow data-producing features that learn from users.

Director, Business Development

Code Ninjas

• Teach children aged 7- 14 basic to advance coding.

Code Sensei (Instructor) Lead I

Prometheus Group LLC

• Part of the core-SAP team supporting desktop version of Plant Management (PM) Maintenance software.
• Test and report issues within the SAP Plant Management (PM) Product Suite.

Software QA Analyst Intern

• Advisor: Dr. Jason King, associate professor, department of computer science at NC State University.
• Research on security defense mechanisms through various IEEE resources on brute-force attacks.
• Conduct a literature review of findings.
• Use collected data and write a technical report on simulations depicting brute-force attacks.
• Develop and test simulation algorithms that prevent brute-force attacks in various scenarios, including:
---- Computer Networking Systems
---- Big Data Systems
---- Hardware Systems (palm-print authentication system etc.)
• Submit a final report on findings.

Researcher

To chat, reach out at islaharshad@gmail.com

Hi there! I'm Isla Arshad, a results-driven solutions leader with 5 years of experience in Solutions Selling, Product Management, and Software Engineering.

In my professional experience as a Sales Engineer, I have successfully helped generate sales in Cloud Solutions (> $4.1M as of 2023) and assisted in saving over $600K through the implementation of automation technology so far.

Skillset:
- Solutions Engineering:
Requirements gathering, Solution architecture, Proof of concept (POC), Proof of value (POV), Solution design, Technical consultation, Product development, Solution implementation, Solution deployment, Solution testing, Solution documentation, Customer requirements, Solution validation, Scalability, Troubleshooting, Cross-functional collaboration, Stakeholder management, Solution presentation, Solution demonstration (demos).

- Software Engineering/Programming/API:
Python, Java, C, Agile methodology, Quality assurance, Software development life cycle (SDLC), SDK (Software Development Kit), JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), OAuth (Open Authorization), Authentication, Authorization.

- Data Analytics/ML:
Tableau, PowerBI, Predictive analytics, Data preprocessing, Classification, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Data visualization, Business intelligence, Key performance indicators (KPIs), Data integration, Sentiment analysis, Data-driven decision making, Data quality, Data privacy.

- CI/CD:
Jenkins, Kubernetes, DevOps.

- Cloud:
AWS, Cloud computing, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Public cloud, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Virtualization, Cloud security.

- Endpoint Security:
Anti-Virus, Intrusion detection system (IDS), Endpoint protection, Vulnerability scanning, Endpoint encryption, Two-factor authentication (2FA), Device control, Application control, Advanced threat protection (ATP), Zero-day protection, Security information and event management (SIEM), Network access control (NAC), Endpoint detection and response (EDR), Incident response, Security orchestration and automation response (SOAR).

- Network Security:
HTTP, Proxies, Caches, Firewalls, SSL/IPsec, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Transport Layer Security (TLS), Penetration testing.


I now divide my time between learning the Public Cloud and on Improving my skills on Technical Selling.


Connect with me on LinkedIn to learn more about my professional experience and skills.

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