Sales with a Customer Success Edge

  • Sales Development with a strong Customer Success foundation
  • Builds trust quickly and uncover real business pain points
  • Turns conversations into qualified pipeline and booked meetings
  • Identifies upsell and cross-sell aligned to customer outcomes
  • Focuses on booking, qualifying, and helping AEs close faster
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Core Principles for Driving Value

My approach to Sales is built on a foundation of principles I developed through years in Customer Success. I believe in proactive outreach, value-driven conversations, and deep curiosity about each prospect’s business. By combining data-informed insight with collaborative communication, I aim to uncover real pain points and spark high quality sales conversations. Whether it's cold outreach or working inbound leads, I bring a mindset focused on solving problems, driving engagement, and creating opportunities that move the business forward.

Click through the cards to view my guiding principles.

Pipeline-Driven

Revenue-Motivated

Customer-Centric

Professional Strengths

Prospecting

Targeting high-potential accounts to build and maintain a strong, qualified pipeline.

Strategic Messaging

Crafting clear, compelling outreach that resonates across channels.

Lead Qualification

Prioritizing outreach using data to assess fit, intent, and potential impact.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Aligning with sales, marketing, and product to optimize GTM efforts.

Goal-Oriented Execution

Consistently meeting and exceeding pipeline and conversion targets.

Discovery & Objection Handling

Uncovering needs, addressing concerns, and driving conversations forward.

Key Achievements & Impact

Highlighting measurable results and successful initiatives from my career.

Strategic Expansion

Generated $1.41M in new ARR through upselling and cross-selling across enterprise accounts.

Strategic Expansion

High Impact Onboarding

Onboarded 24 customers totaling $3M in ARR during the launch of Vercel’s v0 AI product.

High Impact Onboarding

Retention & Value Mapping

Maintained a Customer Dollar Retention rate of 120%+ across a $9M+ portfolio.

Retention & Value Mapping

My Career Journey

The evolution of my professional growth and key roles.

2024

Customer Success Manager at Vercel

Owned the launch of the CSM Org for our AI Initiative, while maintaining a customer base from our core product offering, resulting in a double book of business: 56 accounts and $5.7M ARR

Developed onboarding motions, enablement documentation, training resources and assisted in the successful launch of website migrations across multiple industries

2022

Customer Success Manager at Lyte

Managed and onboarded enterprise-level festival and event customers with a BoB of 22 accounts and $4M in ARR

Wore multiple hats as the Customer Success Manager, Technical Account Manager, Renewal Manager, and Upsell Opportunity Generator

2021

Customer Success Manager at Thryv

Managed and onboarded 200+ small business accounts in most verticals and industries

Led an organization-wide initiative to identify upsell opportunities, resulting in 169% increase in MRR per account touched

2020

Sales Development Representative at Syncfusion

Drove revenue pipeline through warm leads from our existing customer base

Exceeded daily quotas of outreach and touch points. Supported customers when necesary and generated pipeline for Account Executives

2016

Chief of Communications, Marine Corps

Began my career by supporting infantry units with all things communications

Maintained $250k worth of gear, led 5 Marines, and supported over 20 successful joint operations

Customer-Centric • Strategic • Proactive • Empathetic • Results-Driven
Customer-Centric • Strategic • Proactive • Empathetic • Results-Driven
Customer-Centric • Strategic • Proactive • Empathetic • Results-Driven
Customer-Centric • Strategic • Proactive • Empathetic • Results-Driven

Get in Touch

Let's discuss how I can bring value to your team. Feel free to book directly to my calendar or email me below.

Continual Growth

A selection of books that have recently influenced my professional and personal development.

How to Win Friends & Influence PeopleFinished

How to Win Friends & Influence People

How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in SellingFinished

How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling

The New Model of SellingFinished

The New Model of Selling

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