Emily Brand

EXPERIENCE

• Maintaining executive relationships within Northeast Commercial to accelerate cloud-native technology adoption while modernizing existing technologies 
• Focus in digital transformation through not only technology adoption but also upskilling organizations and partners to increase productivity of existing organizations

• Developed unique solutions around DevOps adoption and platform modernization strategies leveraging multi-product solutions
• Account of the Year in FY19, FY18, FY17
• Sold in the Financial Services Consulting Vertical, growing from $3mil in sales to $10mil in FY17. Directly sold over $7mil in services at a large multi-national bank.
• Managed a growing team of experienced technical talent
• Worked directly with NY State and various NYC organizations to adopt Red Hat subs and services

• Responsible for over 750 accounts throughout nine states. Interface directly with 13 Red Hat sales managers resulting in $4.2 million booked revenue over 64 consulting projects. Exceeded goals 4 consecutive quarters with 90% travel.
• Manage 20 direct reports throughout Texas with 1 to 25 years of experience. Mentor consultants to enable their growth and increase their Red Hat product knowledge and technical skills. Provide quarterly reviews, career development goals, and succession planning.
• Focus on solution and insight selling thereby enabling each of the client organizations to decrease costs while increasing their market share. Help clients re-think and re-architect their current solutions to provide greater flexibility and agility through Open Source technology and modern development strategies.
• Speaker at Red Hat Summit 2012 presenting on Red Hat’s Enterprise Data Services for organizations implementing Service Oriented Architecture and upgrading to modern databases from outdated mainframes.

EXPERIENCE

• Led a six person team at a large telecom company migrating over two hundred applications from Weblogic/Websphere to Red Hat JBoss thereby saving the company over $3 million annually.
• Consulted at multiple government agencies mentoring employees and configuring an enterprise-wide JBoss Enterprise Service Bus.
• Speaker at Red Hat Summit 2011 for co-developing JBoss WindUp product, which assists with JBoss migrations and upgrades. Red Hat and our partners now deploy WindUp as a sales tool throughout the world.

EDUCATION

• Marie Hopper Service Award, 50 for the Future Award, Google Summer of Code, Graduated with Honors
• Published in ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) for “Arduino Programming for Non-Engineering Universities”

TECHNICAL LANGUAGES, SOFTWARE, CERTIFICATIONS