David S.

About David S.

A versatile and experienced strategic information professional, academic librarian, and solutions engineering focused on advancing research performance, growing global reputation, expanding funding streams, and enabling collaboration for my customers. Passionate about showcasing the services and use case solutions to support my customers needs to develop their interoperable and programmatic strategic enterprise-level research information management ecosystems.

Experience

1. Solutions Engineer for Pure, Interfolio, and Funding Institutional

   Elsevier

   Oct 2024 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US

   As a Solutions Engineer for Pure. Interfolio, and Funding Institutional, Dave serves as a versatile and experienced strategic information professional focused on providing strategic solutions and services to support the success of my customers. Dave uses his years of experience as an academic librarian and strategic information professional to guide customers in their journeys with Research Information Systems and Faculty Information Systems within Elsevier.He works on in-depth sales of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions like Pure, Funding Institutional, and Interfolio. He closely collaborates with Elsevier’s Research Intelligence Sales, Product, and Customer Success Teams. He oversees the development and alignment of solutions towards the customer sales process including solution features, customer business processes, workflows, and the development of integration plans with customer-facing systems and/or applications.He engages with senior management stakeholders identifying and analyzing short and long-term customer needs, success criteria, and possible business cases. He Proposes the best possible software solutions for his customers, conducts advanced customer needs analysis and solution development. He also deliver presentations, demonstrates our software products, and drives the tender processes.

Education

• Simmons University

  Master of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.), Archives Management

  2008 — 2011

• Purdue University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History

  2004 — 2007

• Simmons University

  Master of Arts (M.A.), History

  2008 — 2011

Skills

• Information Literacy
• Scholarly Communication
• Open Access
• Community Outreach
• Digital Libraries
• Library Research
• Library Instruction
• Museums
• Archival Research
• Digitization
• History
• Cataloging
• Ead
• Grant Writing
• Records Management
• Library Science
• Filemaker
• Lcsh
• Research
• Institutional Repositories
• Scholarly Publishing
• Archives
• Collection Development
• Access
• Libraries
• Special Collections
• Library