Perry Jannette

About Perry Jannette

Seasoned technology executive with extensive leadership, consulting, and sales experience. Demonstrates passion and vision for technology, strong architectural expertise, and significant hands-on experience designing and building scalable mission-critical environments. Proven ability to leverage unique combination of deep technology skills and strong business acumen to use technology to achieve organizational goals. Key strengths include:* Leadership – Develop, communicate, and align others around a vision for the future. Create an environment of trust and integrity and act in a decisive, urgent, and committed way to achieve results.* Drive / Creativity – Passionate about innovation and developing technology that positions the company as a market leader. Leverage strong business acumen to quickly evaluate promising initiatives based on expected ROI.* Compelling Communicator – Express complex concepts in an understandable way. Plan and deliver oral and written communications that are impactful and persuasive with their intended audience.* Entrepreneurial Orientation – Big picture thinker who naturally looks for and seizes opportunities to enhance organizational value with a proven track record of bringing mission-critical products to market quickly.* Building Collaborative Relationships / Customer Focus – Develop and strengthen internal and external partnerships based on trust, credibility, and emotional intelligence. Proactively engage with prospects and customers to position the company as the preferred provider through total customer satisfaction.

Experience

1. Senior Solution Architect

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Jul 2022 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Acted as the primary technical advisor for multiple large enterprise customers helping them shape and execute on a strategy to build and migrate large scale distributed applications onto AWS• Worked directly with AWS sales leadership to formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS Graviton • As an account/customer owner within AWS, lead a broader group of internal AWS technical teams (specialists, pro-serv, partner, support…etc) to execute on a strategy to increase cloud adoption as well as to resolve key customer blockers• Built a trusted advisory relationship with customer Architects, VP, and C-level execs helping them execute on their technology vision using the AWS cloud services • Lead POC’s, workshops and immersion days to help customers jumpstart their solutions on AWS• Worked with the service product management teams to relay customer feedback to influence new features and functionality helping• Working with AWS SA leadership, lead multiple initiatives focused around building repeatable patterns (technical as well as non-technical) that were leveraged by SA’s globally to optimize their customer engagements• Lead internal enablement sessions for other solutions architects and related field technical roles• Program lead for Go-To-Market strategy for AWS Migration Acceleration Program for Graviton compute which included enablement for customers, partners and AWS sellers

Education

• Hamline University

  MBA

  2009 — 2011

• Silver Lake College

  BS, Computer Science

  1994 — 1996

Skills

• Selling
• Collaboration
• Ccie R&S
• Solution Selling
• Pmp
• Ccdp
• Cloud Computing
• Professional Services
• Ccnp
• Strategic Planning
• Itil Certified
• Enterprise Mobility