Kevin Thomas

Background

About Kevin Thomas

Experienced and accomplished professional, leveraging strong technical foundation, exceptional communication skills, business and sales acumen to create and deliver innovative, value-driven and effective products and solutions. Local and foreign work experience, working with inter-cultural, cross-functional teams on mission-critical and high-value projects. Built, delivered and sold integrated hardware and software systems across portfolio of diverse industries and vertical markets. Comprehensive field experience with customers and stakeholders across entire B2B & B2C value chain. Peer-reviewed author with academic and research publications, recognized with national-level award for top ten in innovation. Strong public speaking and presentation skills - including conferences, competitions and hosting discussion groups. Able to deliver beyond expectations, creatively and skillfully analyzing and solving complex problems. • 15+ years comprehensive systems experience across portfolio of vertical industries, including: research and development labs; technology startups; commercial infrastructure; mining and natural resources; factory/machine automation; marine/shipbuilding. • 13+ years experience with Linux and open-source software - development and usage • 8+ years extensive field experience across entire value chain – sales teams, consultants, integrators, contractors, suppliers, distributors, purchasers and end users. • 5+ years working on geographically distributed teams Interested in challenging opportunities in both Canada and the US. SKILL • ENGINEERING / TECHNICAL: Systems Engineering | Design and development | Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)| Analysis | Problem solving | Project management | Technical writing | Requirements Analysis | • BUSINESS / SALES: Pre-sales support | Customer interfacing | Consultative selling | Dollarization value | Business development | Public speaking & presentation | SWOT analysis