Chris O'Donnell

Current

• Senior Sales Consultant at Unanet
• President at COD Communications
• Analyst / Blogger at Techdirt Insight Community

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Past

• Sales / Business Development at Techdirt
• VoIP Consultant at Etherspeak Communications
• Dir Business Development at Lucidea LLC

• Major Account Manager at Qwest Communications
• Account Executive at The Allied Group
• Dir Internet Sales at What's Up Interactive
• Sales Engineer at HomeCom Communications
• Sales Service Rep at Westvaco

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Education

• Georgia State University
• Purdue University
• Kwajalein Jr. / Sr. High School

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Industry

Computer Software

Chris O'Donnell’s Summary

Experienced sales executive with deep technical skills. My background includes sales and sales engineering responsibilities for software / web development and consulting services, hardware, software, telecom, and information services to clients ranging from Fortune 500 to start ups.

Chris O'Donnell’s Experience

• Senior Sales Consultant

  Unanet

  (Computer Software industry)

  August 2005 — Present (4 years)

  Sells web based project accounting and professional services automation software to both federal and commercial consulting organizations. Serves both direct sales and sales engineering role to close projects that included both software license and professional services components.

• President

  COD Communications

  (Internet industry)

  2004 — Present (5 years)

  We build web sites for small organizations with big ideas. We help you attract new customers or new members. We help you generate sales. We help you use the web to maintain an ongoing conversation with your markets. We help you make money. If you are buried by spam and computer viruses we can help with that too. If you are interested in exploring open source alternatives to expensive proprietary software we'd love to talk to you! Interested in social media and how it can help your company? We are all over it.

• Analyst / Blogger

  Techdirt Insight Community

  (Research industry)

  2004 — Present (5 years)

  Provides insight and analysis on digital marketing and digital culture related issues to corporate clients of The Insight Community. (Actual date is 2007 to present. I had to massage the date to get my "currently working at" headline to appear in proper order.)

• Sales / Business Development

  Techdirt

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  April 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  Start up venture to develop an enterprise service crowd sourcing market research / analysis and content creation services via a managed online community of experts.

• VoIP Consultant

  Etherspeak Communications

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  October 2004 — June 2005 (9 months)

  Part of a 3 person consultancy providing VoIP solutions built around Zultys VoIP equipment. Responsible for all sales related functions, solution development, on site implementation, and after the sale service. Was certified by Zultys for both sales and systems engineering.

• Dir Business Development

  Lucidea LLC

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2003 — June 2004 (1 year 3 months)

  Responsible for all sales activities for boutique software development company focused on the non-profit and membership association market. Typical projects were web integration with iMIS association software and content management based projects, on both the J2EE and .NET platforms.

• Major Account Manager

  Qwest Communications

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; q; Internet industry)

  January 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 4 months)

  Sold Advanced IP Services (Dedicated Web Hosting, Managed Services, DIA, VPN) and web development / consulting services.

• Account Executive

  The Allied Group

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  June 1998 — December 2000 (2 years 7 months)

  Sold consulting services and Internet infrastructure products (Sun, Netscape, Cisco, Veritas, BMC, Oracle, F5 etc.) to a wide variety of customers, from dot com start-ups to Fortune 500 organizations.

• Dir Internet Sales

  What's Up Interactive

  (Internet industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year)

• Sales Engineer

  HomeCom Communications

  (Internet industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year)

• Sales Service Rep

  Westvaco

  (Paper & Forest Products industry)

  1989 — 1994 (5 years)

Chris O'Donnell’s Education

• Georgia State University

  MBA , 1990 — 1993

• Purdue University

  B.S. / A.S. , Organizational Leadership / Electrical Engineering Technology , 1985 — 1989

  Activities and Societies:

  Phi Sigma Kappa

• Kwajalein Jr. / Sr. High School

  1983 — 1985

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