Astound Business Solutions 

Sales Director

Stark Leadership Coaching

Executive Leadership Coach

Lumen Technologies

Solution Architech Manager

Verizon Enterprise Solutions

Senior Manager over the Pre-sales Solutions Architects for the West Region, responsible for growing and supporting over $130M yearly revenue. Our team engages and partners with our customers to develop solutions that enhance the business drivers and use technology to connect companies to their customers, delivering high customer satisfaction and best in class services.

Solution Architect Senior Manager

XO Communications

As Sales Engineering Manager for the West Region National and Strategic team, I am responsible for the recruiting, training and development of the team of engineers supporting XO's largest accounts, including the Fortune 500 clients. We use performance based goals to coach and develop the team, while providing ongoing education on complex technologies and products.

Sales Engineering Senior Manager, National West Region

As Sales Engineering Manager, I was responsible for the Pre-Sales Engineers supporting the Direct and Indirect Sales Teams in the Northwest Region, including: San Francisco, Sacramento, Denver, Portland, Salt Lake City, Seattle and Spokane. Recruiting, developing, coaching and assisting Sales Engineers to deliver best in class solutions for highly complex WAN/LAN environments. Involved in the sales cycle from beginning to end, delivering presentations to audiences including C-Level decision makers, discussing customer challenges and developing business solutions to enhance capabilities of client networks and communications. I use performance based goals to coach and develop the team, while providing ongoing education on complex technologies and products.

Sales Engineering Senior Manager

Pre-sales engineer for National and Strategic accounts responsible for the design of complex WAN and voice solutions, including converged services such as MPLS, VPLS. Enterprise SIP, and traditional private line, SONET and wavelength services.. I also leverage managed services utilizing the broad list of IP based products, such as Hosted Security, Hosted PBX and Content Delivery, to form solutions for the customer's voice and data needs. I am involved from pre-sales through implementation, responsible for ensuring the design meets the customer's expectations. I use a consultative sales approach, and continue working with customers to leverage technology to enhance their business flows and drive down expenses.

I have served on the VoIP Subject Matter Expert team since 2009 to assist engineers across the country with complex VoIP solutions, especially Enterprise class SIP trunking.

Senior Sales Engineer

Advanced Communication Solutions

Responsible for running the Service Department for the company, including technical support staff, project managers, network engineers and administrative personnel. Also, I handled all aspects of IT for the organization, maintaining multi-location network and handling technical support group within the organization. Developed and managed Network Services department for company focusing on Wide Area Networks for voice and data applications.

Vice President of Service

Handled all day to day operations of the Service Department, including recruiting, hiring, MBO, customer escalations, dispatching, Tier III technical support and training.

Service Manager

Designed and implemented VoIP systems for Enterprise customers.

Lead Technician

Ameritrend Corporation

Designed and Implemented complex Enterprise class Unified Communication and Contact Center solutions.

Leadership starts from within. As we master our SELF, we become better equipped to not only lead from the front, but also to embrace a higher purpose that focuses the team on a greater good. This unlocks our potential as a leader, and creates a life of abundance.

Some important aspects of my life and career:

*Lifelong learner helping teams drive innovation, leveraging Business Outcome strategies to create new sales opportunities*

*Shaking up the status quo and developing growth mindsets*

*Generating thought provoking digital content related to technology, emotional intelligence and personal experiences*

*In the trenches side-by-side with teams, pushing them to think differently, while always focusing on the clients desired business outcomes* 

*Doing the gritty, detail work, relentlessly practicing, preparing and challenging to drive value for the client*

*Drilling the basics, and tirelessly working to improve*

*Working with the largest technology companies on the planet, delivering value and co-creation where combined outputs drive innovation*

Expertise in Sales. Engineering, Coaching, Development, Performance Management, Business Outcome Sales, Process and Procedure, Subject Matter Expert for VoIP technology, UCC and Cloud Omni-channel Contact Center solutions.

Technology specialties: AR/VR, Autonomous Vehicles (AV) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Internet of Things, Smart Cities, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), 5G and Private LTE, LAN/WAN Design, Transport: 100G, 10G and 1G, MPLS/VPLS, VoIP Specialist, Network Security, Cloud solutions, Bare Metal, SIP trunking, Ethernet, Transport, Wavelength, Routing and Switching

Tim West

https://proverbsforprofessionals.net

I’m an experienced leader and Bible teacher who helps growth-oriented professionals intentionally absorb and apply the universal precepts, so they become wise hearted and wise behaving.

Sharing the balanced life with influencers

Georgia College & State University

Dean, J. Whitney Bunting College of Business

January 2017 - April 2017, Associate Dean, College of Business Georgia College
May 2016 - January 2017 Interim Associate Provost, Georgia College
July 2014 - May 2016: Associate Dean, College of Business, Georgia College
September 2015 - present: Co-chair, Georgia College Strategic Plan Steering Committee
May 2015 - June 2016: Interim Department Chair, Marketing Department, Georgia College
July 2012 - June 2014: Interim Dean (2 years), College of Business, Georgia College
July 2010 – June 2012: Associate Dean (2 years), College of Business, Georgia College
May 2008 -  June 2010: Interim Dean (2 years), College of Business, Georgia College
July 2005 - April 2008: Associate Dean (3 years), College of Business, Georgia College
July 2005 - Present: Professor - MIS, College of Business, Georgia College
July 2002- June 2007: Associate Professor - MIS, College of Business, Georgia College
•	Member, graduate faculty, 2002-present

Associate Dean, College of Business

During FY 2017 I have taken on the temporary assignment of Interim Associate Provost in the office of Academic Affairs at Georgia College.

Interim Associate Provost and Director of Graduate Programs

Georgia College (GCSU)

Key functions as dean, reporting to Provost: Advisory Board, fundraising, Dean's Council, executive board of the Georgia WebMBA, external outreach, supervise advertising and promotion for the College of Business

Key functions as associate dean: execute strategic plan, maintenance of AACSB accreditation, manage undergraduate and graduate curriculum, lead department chair meetings, budget & signature authority for the College of Business, supervise staff functions, assist departments with faculty recruitment, external activities such as Chamber of Commerce Committees

Faculty member and Administrator

Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia

ACE Fellow for one year (intermittent visits) during the 2014 academic year. Regularly attended president's cabinet and council of dean's meetings. Created a report for the college to assist in the strategic plan item "developing an entrepreneurial mindset in a liberal arts context."

American Council on Education Fellow

Miami University

1996-2002 Miami University, Associate Professor, MIS; graduate faculty member
1990-1995 Miami University, Assistant Professor, MIS; graduate faculty member

Associate Professor

Do you want to make sense of things? Make better decisions? Behave wisely?
See significant growth in your personal and professional life?

If "Yes" to these questions, then the balanced life of Knowing and Doing is for you!

Proverbs for Professionals shares the precepts of a balanced life with growth-minded influencers. The outcome of that balance is clearer personal, professional, and spiritual purpose.

What's the source of that life balance? Wisdom! Which is? The universal precepts of life that help us with knowing or learning, as well as with doing or applying experiential insights.

To that end, Proverbs for Professionals is all about sharing the basics of a precept-driven life. The source of those precepts is the Book of Proverbs from scripture. In short, a precept-driven life produces the Know-Do Balance.

First, two disclaimers:
1). Wisdom isn't about native intelligence. Why? Because the instruction in Proverbs is all about character transformation. It's nothing about being smart.
2). Wisdom isn't about common sense. Why? Because it's not inherent, not animal instinct. Instead, it's about being teachable.

Therefore, wisdom begins with WHO. That is, with self-awareness, by changing WHO I am. To make that change, I must be teachable. Then, my life purpose, my WHY, follows after WHO.

What are some traits of a precept-driven life as described in Proverbs? Here's a partial list:
1). Good judgment
2). Critical thinking
3). Discernment
4). Reverence
5). Experiential insight
6). Self-awareness
7). Self-control
8). Interpersonal discretion
9). Clarity about life purpose
10). Growth mindset
11). Greater productivity
12). Leadership influence

Now, there's a dozen benefits worth pursuing!

Proverbs for Professionals shares the basics of a precept-driven life through week-day, short-form LinkedIn posts. Plus, longer-form blog posts are available at http://proverbsforprofessionals.net/. 

To learn more about my experiences and qualifications, read "Some words about me" on the blog.

To learn more about what makes Proverbs unique among all the other wisdom literature, read the "Value Proposition" on the blog site.

You're invited to join me as together we learn about precept-driven growth. I look forward to interacting with you.

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