Jason Summers

About Jason Summers

Marketing, sales and the technology that enables those functions are core to most…

Experience

1. Senior Director, Global Sales Automation

   Verizon Business

   Feb 2019 — Present

   Senior leadership over business process and enabling technology to support the global sales mission for multiple commercial and government sales channels. Senior platform strategy, operational leadership and administration of the Verizon implementations of SalesForce. With the creation of Verizon Business Group in 2019, Salesforce responsibility was extended to cover entire wireless business unit with additional instances and user populations now exceeding Executive leadership over Salesforce instance strategy and user consolidation plans. Systems strategy, deployment and operating responsibility for global partner program automation based on the Salesforce communities architecture.Responsibility for all business Point of Sale, Quotation, Order and Account Inquiry platforms supporting Wireless sales. Business leadership of the total transformation of wireless point-of-sale automation bringing forward a new generation of systems to support this activity. Full spectrum of leadership responsibility including strategy, design, requirements, development grooming, testing, implementation, training, user care and overall program success. Ongoing responsibility for rapid technology deployment - managing a team of technical professionals focused on velocity in bringing new marketing and sales capabilities to Verizon organizations.Direct supervision of offshore technology center providing application support, development, program management and platform content supportDirect supervision of end-user support center providing broad application support to systems users worldwideGeneral consultative support to multiple internal business units considering or actively deploying cloud technology solutions from SalesForce.Overall reporting staff of 125 personnel with an annual operating budget of ~$35M

Education

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  MBA, Marketing & Organizational Behavior

  1997

• University of Virginia

  BS, Commerce

  1993

• The Johns Hopkins University

  MS, IT & Telecommunications Technology

  1993 — 1996

Skills

• Managed Services
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Integration
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Saas
• Program Management
• Wireless Technologies
• Strategy
• Salesforce.com
• Solution Selling
• Telecommunications
• Cloud Computing
• Product Marketing
• Crm
• Enterprise Software
• Wireless
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Strategic Partnerships
• Professional Services
• Mobile Devices
• Product Management