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Kent Cunningham has been immersed in the field of Information and Communication Technologies for over twenty years, and remains heavily engaged with the leading vendors and standards bodies as the industry evolves.  As a Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Corporation, Kent is responsible for defining go-to-market strategies and product development roadmaps as influenced by, and tailored to meet, the unique requirements of customers within the Public Sector.  Mr. Cunningham has also experienced many years of designing global broadband networks and data centers in the private sector; starting with the silicon, and advancing with integrators and developers to deliver innovative solutions to the market place.  Kent resides in Nashville TN, where he has been teleworking since before dial-up was cool, and enjoys time with his family while continually trying to improve his wake surfing skills. 

                                                                              Professional Overview:                                                                            

• Long standing track record of helping enterprise leaders transform their business by executing against long-term strategies and roadmaps for pragmatic technology adoption.
• Strong background in business management, unified communications, social collaboration, enterprise network design, and directory services.  Quick to identify opportunities, able to manage people and prioritize opportunities, highly capable as a trusted consultant and mentor to salespeople, and committed to improving the competency of the team.
• Four years involvement as a strategy and vision team leader for a global telecommunications firm.
• CTO and Board Member for Corporate Development and Planning firm focused on Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs).
• Supported and helped design a Global Engineering and Sales Team growing the business by 38% YoY and driving more that $27million in net new revenue.
• Proven history of working directly with customers to enable the “winning solution”, through designing an offer that maximizes customer value through the contributions of people, processes, technology and services to address their unique business challenges.
• Security expertise includes endpoint compliance, wireless networking, secure multimedia, and active response remediation systems using intrusion detection with information management.
• Participated in the US Federal Government's 2010 "Civil Society to Civil Society” (C2C) Summit as a recognized "Industry Innovator" demonstrating collaborative technical approaches to Secretary Clinton which are designed to assist in overcoming various challenges faced by civil society groups in Russia.
• Able to create trust through personal presence and insightful thought leadership and follow through. Proven networking skills in the public sector, healthcare & manufacturing verticals; excellent interpersonal skills at very senior levels.
• Network infrastructure experience includes systems design and implementation of multi-service, highly-available converged network solutions for global, mission-critical environments.
• Developed Social Media and Collaboration strategy for Microsoft's U.S. Public Sector business and created solutions to enable customers to leverage, secure, monitor, and integrate social media into their organizational processes.
• Twenty years of experience building strong presentation skills has been obtained through regular public speaking and as a vendor-certified technical instructor.   Earned the title as one of the “Top Five” technical instructors in the southern region of the U.S. for three consecutive years.
• Public speaking engagements commonly include senior executive briefings, industry influencers, trade shows and corporate technology planning sessions for enterprise accounts.
  

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