asher vaknin

team manager : enterprise, hi-tech, health and education sectors

About

More than 15 years in the Israeli IT market, all along combining deep technical knowledge, together with C Level sales and negotiating skills. Specialties: New Business Development, Account Manager, Sales Engineer, Government tenders, Deal negotiating and closing ,Servers and storage architecture, Experience in MS technologies , Backup and DRP tools, Software licensing, Server consolidation, Virtualization and cloud computing. Ability to execute operational plan. Strategic Vision. Broad experience and ICT knowledge. Extensive marketing/sales background. Open minded

Country

israel

City

israel

Industry

computer hardware

Skill

virtualization, sales operations, storage solutions, operating systems, network architecture, network security, enterprise software, pre sales, data center, storage, security, servers, saas, product management, channel partners, server architecture, hp server hardware, cloud computing, storage architecture, ds4000, integration, ibm storage, vmware vsphere, vmware infrastructure, vmware, networking, network administration, computer networking

Experience

account mangaer

computer hardware company llc

2000-11 - 2002-5 · 1 yr 7 mos

Sales Manager for academic market

account manager

harel information technologies

2002-5 - 2015-12 · 13 yrs 8 mos

* Specialties: Academic & Education Market * institutional bids * government bids * Servers and storage architecture * Backup and DRP tools * Software licensing * Server consolidation * Virtualization and cloud computing * SBC computing * Government tenders * Deal negotiating and closing

team manager : enterprise, hi-tech, health and education sectors

harel information technologies

2016-1 - Present · 10 yrs 9 mos

* Managing a team of senior account managers in the Enterprise, Hi-Tech, Health and Education Sectors at Harel Information Technologies. * Developing relationships with strategic partners (Vendors) , responsible for: business plans, leads generation and management, product's introduction and training, certification programs, marketing plans, promotion programs, commercial terms and pricing, contracts management and more. * Strategic projects sales management including: architecture management, pricing, customer presentations and negotiations. * New Markets/Customers analyzing and penetration plan/execution. * Market research including: business and technology trends, competition trends, regulations evolvement and customers solutions requirements * Research, examination and selection of solutions, products and technologies to the company solutions portfolio.