chris stegh

chief technology officer and vice president of strategy

About

Business leader focused on creating strategy and executing process improvements Technical manager dedicated to recruiting, development, and team building Sales professional skilled at assessing business needs, constraints, opportunities, and developing a comprehensive solution Public speaker adept at expressing complex concepts in understandable terms Program manager driven to help cross-functional teams solve multilayered problems Specialties: Industry Advocate: CIO-Level IT Advisor, Author, Speaker Strategist: Corporate direction and product/service development Organization leader: Manager and mentor of Sales Engineers, Consultants, Project Managers, and Customer Support Team Sales: Sales Engineering Manager, C-level liaison, big deal orchestrator Marketing: Strategist, content creator, showman Operations: Mgmt Consultant, Customer Support, process improveement Technical: Information Security, IaaS, SaaS & Unified Communications

Country

united states

City

chicago

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

unified communications, telecommunications, enterprise software, voip, pre sales, sip, cloud computing, solution selling, saas, strategy, telephony, contact centers, data center, solution architecture, voice over ip, management, strategic partnerships, business analysis, disaster recovery, video conferencing, cross functional team leadership, customer service, cisco technologies, process improvement, business development, wireless, software as a service, team building, technical staff management, customer relationship management, session initiation protocol, business process improvement, lync, strategic planning, wireless technologies, integration, avaya products, organizational leadership, technical presentations, security, consulting, professional services, strategy development, product management, information security, email security, cloud security, customer relations, lync server 2010, ip, avaya, channel partners, managed services

Experience

chief technology officer and vice president of strategy

enabling technologies corp

2011-3 - Present · 15 yrs 7 mos

* Lead strategic customer discussions about their UC and collaborative futures * Manage all sales of the company * Recruit, hire, manage nationwide sales team of UC specialists * Speak at industry and marketing events * Evaluate and decide upon strategic company directions * Create and maintain partnerships with Microsoft, Polycom, Interactive Intelligence, and other third-party ISVs and manufacturers

chief technology officer

enabling technologies corp

2007-4 - 2012-3 · 5 yrs

Christian Stegh is the CTO at Enabling Technologies, the back-to-back winner of Microsoft's worldwide partner of the year award for Unified Communications. He is responsible for all product and services deliverables to enterprise customers. His current role is to set strategy and lead the consulting, engineering, project management, and support teams at Enabling Technologies. He speaks regularly at IEEE and industry events, and is a published technology author. He has a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering and his MBA is from the University of Iowa.

volunteer advisor

illinois institute of technology

2002-1 - 2008-1 · 6 yrs 1 mo

* Advise university's VoIP (Voice over IP) lab program directors on curriculum and coursework * Donate equipment and research grants, educate students * Provide presentations at seminars and roundtables

ip telephony and emerging technologies practice leader

avaya

2001-1 - 2007-3 · 6 yrs 3 mos

Led the North American presales practices focused on IP telephony, SIP, and SOA-Web Services. Handled large-scale deals, nationwide training programs, and performance management metrics.