Jeff Nessen

About Jeff Nessen

The majority of my life has been spent working in and around IT. My first job was as an operator and administrator for an SCO Xenix system. After automating everything I did on that platform I spent my time learining all I could about VAX VMS and eventually made the move to be a VMS System Manager and wrote the occasional small utitlity programs in VAX BASIC, VAX C, and Visual Basic. This was right around the time switched networking was coming in to existence and my boss at the time thought that would be a good next step for me, since very few people actually knew how it worked. I did that job and eventually took on supervisory position for LAN Manager, the network and our desktop server platforms (Banyan Vines, Digital Pathworks and Novel Netware). From supervisor I moved to Manager but this time in a Fortune 500 company basically leading the same types of teams with the exception of Network Infrastructure. I took a strange detour into the dot.com bubble in the middle of as an IT Director for a CLEC DSL provider with responsibility for Network, Provisioning, Customer Support, Servers and Web Applications. This was short lived though as the company was burning through money in typical \"Sexy\" dot.com fashion and the writing was on the wall for the long term viability.From there I moved to the \"Dark Side\" which turned out to not be very dark. I jumped from IT Shop/Customer to IT Provider/Reseller/Distributor. This path has been wonderful and I truly enjoy being on this side of the table, but feel like I am better because of the time I spent in IT.I have done so many exciting things between my time at Avnet, Logicalis, Progentus and now CDW. In most of my roles I have been tapped to provide thought leadership both internally and externally with our customers. I have multiple times been asked to launch a new function or business unit from the ground up and have done so successfully four times now.

Experience

1. Us Education Practice Lead

   Google

   Jan 2024 — Present · US

Education

• Moorpark College

  Business

  1990 — 1991

Skills

• Solution Selling
• System Deployment
• Servers
• Start-Ups
• Business Alliances
• Solution Architecture
• Business Development
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Information Technology
• IT Management
• Software Industry
• Sales Enablement
• Virtualization
• IT Strategy
• Professional Services
• Strategic Planning
• Management
• Storage Area Networks
• Vendor Management
• Channel
• Demand Generation
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Disaster Recovery
• Hp
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Strategic Partnerships
• Resellers
• Business Continuity
• Partner Management
• Strategy
• Channel Partners
• Data Center
• Saas
• Cloud Computing
• Storage Virtualization
• Managed Services
• Team Leadership
• Storage