Steven Meyer

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About Steven Meyer

Business athlete | Customer focused | Leader | Enriching the lives around me Seasoned business athlete with a focus on achieving superior results by aligning teams to overcome obstacles and provide business impact to customers through technology. Success in helping companies transform on latest technology trends including cloud, mobility, application modernization, and devops. Steven’s career started as an account manager at Zones, a technology reseller, where he quickly earned a spot on the Microsoft account team as a Strategic Account Manager managing the larger organizations like MSN, Xbox, ITG, and Hotmail to name a few. This experience and ability to build relationships with a customer first approach provided Steven his next opportunity as an Asset Management Director in the MSN Global Operations team working as a contractor. Here he gained management experience, appreciation for process automation, while building out a global team of Asset Managers. This experience working in and around Data Center operations provided technical building blocks to gain a position on a new sales team at Microsoft chartered to grow the Development tools and platform business for the company. In this unique position of Developer Tools and Platform Specialist, Steven was required to work in a highly matrixed sales organization effectively driving Developer Tools and services revenue with and through others. In the field, Steven exceeded quota 9/10 years earning Gold club twice covering large territories in the Small & Medium sized business segment mostly. The experiences gained while prospecting, hunting, delivering proof of concepts, developing partner capability, scaling through partners, constructing deals, negotiating, and relationship building were all leveraged in Steven’s next role. This success led to Steven being promoted to Sr. Sales Manager where he helped lead, build and define business strategy for a high performing team of Cloud application development specialists covering Enterprise accounts in the US. During this time Steven gained experience designing and executing application modernization sales strategies and plays, partner development and joint sales with SI’s and ISV partners, and developing strategies to drive consumption with under-penetrated Azure customers. Steven truly enjoys helping customers be more productive, utilizing tools and processes to be more successful, and continue to look for ways for companies to use technology to innovate.