Brady Lambert

Current

CEO at The Data Center Marketplace
CEO at The Virtualization Assurance Group
Ventures and Consulting Projects at Business Opportunities

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Past

Inside Sales Manager at ZettaWorks (Perficient)
E-Business Consulting Practice Executive at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
Chairman / CEO at Strategic Partner Development Services, Houston, TX

Associate, Desktop Automation Consulting Practice at Grant Thornton International, Detroit/Southfield Offices

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Education

University of Michigan

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Brady Lambert’s Summary

Data Center providers and industry vendors: to list your solutions and products on The Data Center Marketplace, please send your Referral Agreements to listing@datacentermarketplace.com. Thank you.

Please join the LinkedIn Group for Data Center Marketplace: http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=1855006

Twitter IDs: @datacentermktpl, @wlambert_2001

Additional Links:
Facebook Group for Data Center Marketplace: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58390939262
Ning Group for Data Center Marketplace: http://datacentermarketplace.ning.com

SUMMARY:
Exceptionally skilled in creating new businesses, new business relationships, launching innovative products and solutions, developing strategic sales and marketing strategies that align with company, client and partner initiatives.

Routinely consult with partners, channel members, and decision makers to discuss requirements, logistics, budgets, markets, barriers, and strategies to create relationships that increase sales and market share. Apply unique and innovative spins to traditional programs. Solid background developing and producing significant performance with profitable returns.

Am never too busy to respond with a few kind words.

Industry Experience and Interests:
Technology, Data Center, Datacenter, Managed Services, Hosting, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Virtualization, Unified Computing, Unified Communications, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Angel Capital, Acquisition and Consolidation, Telecom, Power, Oil & Gas, Chemical, Pipeline, Trading, Medical, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Bio-Tech, Manufacturing, Services, Financial, Government, and Non-Profit.

Brady Lambert’s Specialties:

Information technology related business formation and management (SaaS, B2B commerce, software development, consulting, staffing, other). Sales and marketing, business development, alliance partner and channel management.

Brady Lambert’s Experience

CEO

The Data Center Marketplace

(Privately Held; Information Services industry)

March 2009 — Present (10 months)

The Data Center Marketplace (datacentermarketplace.com) is a fully automated, back office integrated commerce center and Web2.0 community, conceptualized and developed to facilitate Data Center industry related commerce, and to provide its participants with a favorable user experience and feeling of community. It is an open, vendor and broker independent commerce exchange and marketplace for consumers/buyers, providers/sellers, and vendors transacting business in the Data Center, Colocation, Hosting, Cloud/Utility Computing, Cloud Storage, and other related areas of the industry. It is not a not a broker, referral or lead source.
CEO

The Virtualization Assurance Group

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

The Virtualization Assurance Group (vAssurance) provides technology consulting services focused on assessment and delivery of virtualization solutions, assessment and remediation of Governance, Security and Regulatory Compliance in virtualized environments, and Cloud Computing and Data Center server migration and integration. While our focus is on delivering expertise in virtualization projects, we do accept requests for other consulting and support services; including: remote monitoring and service level agreements for support, related software development and application integration, server installation and management, security, network support, and consultants with specified skill sets.

Our Expertise:
* Best practices that have successfully deployed fully automated virtualization environments
* Maintain bulletproof security for a global workforce in a virtualized enterprise
* Determine the right mix of traditional and virtualized, centralized in-house, and hosted computing environments
* Make virtualization work for more efficient software development
* New models that access the benefits of improved application performance and power management
* Regulatory compliance review.
Ventures and Consulting Projects

Business Opportunities

(Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1999 — Present (10 years 2 months)

■ Now: Broker third-party products and services, provide occasional staffing services;
■ Promoted iLearningGlobal.tv while helping my network improve their lives, motivation, sales skills and income;
■ Developed SCADA and RFID systems monitoring portal software (.NET) with the goal of providing support services in the energy and healthcare industries;
■ Retained to successfully establish US based E-Business consulting practice within an Indian SAP off shoring firm;
■ Retained to develop web sites for non-profit organizations;
■ Retained to develop commerce portals with .NET tool sets for online businesses;
■ Retained to develop online application processing system for a national mortgage branch organization;
■ Retained to develop a wireless shipping/logistics application for handheld (Palm) devices;
■ Adapted VB.NET Energy Trading software into peer-to-peer trading system that I called: “Garage Sale”.
Inside Sales Manager

ZettaWorks (Perficient)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2004 — January 2005 (4 months)

Manager of Inside Sales ● ZettaWorks (Perficient) ● October, 2004 to January, 2005
■ Hired to establish Inside Sales group.
■ Successfully targeted large Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) projects, including emerging Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions.
■ Leveraged relationships with OEMs (mine and the company’s): TIBCO, IBM, BEA, webMethods and others.
■ Region: worldwide; prospect revenue range: $250MM+.
■ Contracts exceeded $2MM, goals exceeded 400%, until Perficient acquired and closed ZettaWorks.
■ Established new business on DoD projects with Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin.
E-Business Consulting Practice Executive

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CAP; Management Consulting industry)

March 2000 — November 2000 (9 months)

■ Hired to establish successful E-Business practice within southwest region.
■ Managed multiple Houston and Dallas teams (both sales and delivery)
■ Contracts exceeded $75MM, goals were quickly exceeded exponentially, until consolidation of CG and EY eliminated my position.
■ My Houston teams sold in excess of $50MM, with $35MM coming from a master agreement with Compaq within two months of that team’s formation. The other team’s projects averaged $2MM.
■ My Dallas teams sold in excess of $25MM, projects to The Associates, Ericsson, Nokia, Nortel, and others averaging $2MM per engagement.
■ Traveled more than 75% to Cap Gemini (CG) and Ernst Consulting (EY) offices and Technology Centers, and prospects and clients, within and outside of the region; including international.
■ Developed successful recruiting strategy.
■ Played pivotal roles in CGEY strategic initiatives with other CG executives and EY partners.
■ Downstream Energy Practice formation committee member.
Chairman / CEO

Strategic Partner Development Services, Houston, TX

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1986 — November 1999 (13 years 7 months)

■ Established SPDS in 1986 as its first contractor, and added 12 consultants in the first year.
■ Identified the opportunity for realizing superior margins in Technology Consulting and accordingly modified strategy and offerings.
■ Built SPDS into a $4MM Information Technology consulting and staffing firm with 5 full-time staff, average 65 consultants, peak approximately 120 consultants.
■ Administered all aspects and performed all tasks of this rapidly grown business.
■ Leveraged formal business alliances and OEM partnerships, with leading and emerging technology and software firms, into business opportunities.
■ Delivered project management, outsourcing, direct and 2nd-tier staffing solutions.
■ Provided seminars and courses that taught firms how to develop and integrate with OEM partner solutions.
■ Developed a successful commercial E-Commerce software business in alliance with Microsoft and Oracle, which was later sold at a profit.
■ Sold SPDS in 1999 for a great profit!
Associate, Desktop Automation Consulting Practice

Grant Thornton International, Detroit/Southfield Offices

(Partnership; Accounting industry)

April 1984 — May 1986 (2 years 2 months)

Associate, Desktop Automation Practice ● Grant Thornton International ● April, 1984 to May, 1986
■ Recruited out of University of Michigan six months prior to graduation by Managing Partner.
■ Rotated through all departments to learn business, in anticipation of establishing a desktop automation practice.
■ Introduced mid-size client prospects and worked with firm’s Partners to convert prospects into customers.

Brady Lambert’s Education

University of Michigan

BBA , Major: Accounting; Minors: Finance, Computer Science

Tuition paid by scholarships, grants, and work while attending school. Interned with accounting firms for the last two years of college, and was recruited by a partner at Fox & Company, which soon merged with Grant Thornton, International.

Activities and Societies:

Tau Epsilon Phi