Bill Sumerlin
Bill Sumerlin - GOLD Coach
Location: East Bay/Bay Area
Years Coaching: 20+
Functional Background: Operations, Product/Engineering/R&D, Finance/Accounting, Marketing, Sales
Bill’s focus has been on assisting corporate leaders, organizations and businesses find and implement successful solutions to challenging sales, development and customer relationship issues. In addition to being a business and market analyst, enterprise architect, cloud specialist and an ex-General Electric Computer Scientist, he has:
· 30+ years in management, business consulting and and technical development;
· Founded/co-founded more than half a dozen for profit and non-profit companies;
· Helped raise $75M+ for seed, series A and B startup companies
· Participated in 2 corporate mergers
· Architected and developed more than a dozen B2B and B2C products, processes and services, written more than a million lines of code, developed numerous financial models, business plans, papers, articles, manuals and patents;
· Extensive knowledge and experience in the high technology, telecommunications, networking, cloud computing, financial services, retail, travel ;
· Worked in/with SMB and multi-billion multi-nationals in US, Europe and Asia
BUSINESS/ORGANIZATION KEY STRENGTHS
Client/Customer Relationship Management (CRM, SFA & BSP)
· Needs Assessment
· Issue/Opportunity Identification, Valuation & Management
· Sales, Marketing, Service Channel Improvements
Communicator (Upward, Downward and Laterally)
· Presentations, Papers, Manuals (
Business/Organization Management
· Strategic & Financial Planning/Modeling/Budgeting; SWOT Analysis
· Project Management; Agile/Scrum
Team Building
· Needs assessment; Goals/objectives identification & consensus building
· Staffing with focus on key skills, productivity, culture and chemistry
Architecture
· Cloud Computing; SaaS; PaaS; Web 2.0/3.0; Client/Server; Intelligent Multi-Agent; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Machine Learning; and Mobile Front/Back-end Systems
· Database Architecture & Design (Scalable, high performance SQL and NoSQL systems)
· High Speed Networks with Distributed Processing and Large System Scalability
· Call/Contact Center Architecture & Operations (Sales & Service, Inbound & Outbound)
Implementation
· Large Systems Design and Deployment; Rapid Prototyping (Simple/creative solutions)
· Real-time Programming; OS Internals; Fault Tolerant; High Quality; 2D/3D Graphics & Video
· Documentation (end user, support & development; interactive, downloadable, printed)
Management
· Project Planning, Budget Management, $M+ P&L Management, Agile, Scrum
· Business Process Design & Development; IP Creation & Management
International & Regional Customs & Business Practices