Nicholas C. Russo
Enterprising sales leader looking to provide an instrumental role in company growth
- Austin, TX
- +13392250360
- nirusso78@gmail.com
2020 Promotion to Senior Branch Manager
2020 107% Team Quota Attainment
2019 Oracle Digital Club Excellence
2019 178% of Team Quota as Manager
2018 Oracle Club Excellence (President's club)
2018 Oracle Austin Hub MVP
2018 135% Total Quota Attainment
2017 Oracle 125% Cloud Attainment
2014 Accruent Rookie of the Year
2014 Accruent 107% Quota Attainment
2013 Mediflex 128% Quota Attainment
NCAA Athlete- Football (Ursinus College)
Siterra for Amazon Locker
AccruentPM for CapitalOne
360Facility for Tesla
Siterra Lease Admin for KPMG
Accruent Lease Administration for Eaton Corporation
OCI for Fairfield Geotechnical
OCI at FamilyTree DNA
OCI for ETCC
ULA for Aspira
Management/Leadership - 4 years
Total Sales Experience- 11 years (7+ Software)
Austin, TX
-Grew territory revenue over 400% YoY in FY '20 (First year all cloud)
-Grew Territory over 200% in FY '19
-Manage a team of 7 Sales representatives selling Oracle Cloud Platform to companies under ~$1B in revenue in North Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma
-Create and execute sales campaigns based on customer demographics in conjunction with opportunistic timing and product fit.
- Foster environment of competence, success and hard work with my reps to ensure a high performing team culture
-Interview and hire candidates that best fit my team and core values
-Tirelessly teach brand new reps sales skills and concepts of IaaS/PaaS to revolutionize our customer's businesses.
-Maintain accurate sales forecast and pipeline in CRM
-Assist with implementations and urgent customer service issues
-Drive brand recognition to Oracle Cloud in a market dominated by AWS, Google and Microsoft
Austin, TX/West Houston
- Ran a book of 25 Oracle install accounts and 25 dormant accounts (without current support) under ~ $500M in Annual revenue
-Discussed near and long-term roadmaps with executives to help them make the best decisions for their business using Oracle Technology
- Significant sales have been full infrastructure and platform conversions from On-Premise to the Oracle Cloud
- Identified operational inefficiencies and potential ROI opportunities to promote IaaS/PaaS Oracle products and services within my territory.
Austin, TX/Mid-Atlantic Territory /Southwestern- Account Executive
Responsible for all activities related to the strategic sale of the company's products or services as related to assigned accounts including new and existing customers.
-Articulated value of web-based (Cloud/SaaS) enterprise level software solutions that deliver the fastest path to value and ROI to Fortune 500 customers.
-Influenced buyers to actively take next steps and communicate clear paths to success for project completion.
- Excelled in product knowledge of multiple cloud based software solutions.
Key Sales and Accounts: Amazon.com, Tesla, KPMG, LA Dodgers, VMWare, Capital One, USAA, Eaton Corp, Exxon Mobil, Key Bank, Huntington Bank, AEP, J&J
-Created the Northeast territory for Mediflex USA: laparoscopic disposables and surgical devices, starting with no prior accounts to first year sales figures of $45,560 of Capital Equipment Sales and approximately $25,000 per month of renewing disposable orders.
-Top grossing laparoscopic scissor sales in the company. Over 10,000 disposable units ordered per month.
-Identified potential OR Supply Chain and Surgeon customers through cold calls, introductory meetings, sales presentations or events.
- Led a 40 person organization to a 35% increase in company sales output from August 2011 to January 2012 (1482 to 2000 bound policies)
- Directed sales managers with teams of sales representatives in exceeding quotas and aiding in overall sales support for an entire sales force in order to procure success in an inside call center.
- Delivered quantifiable weekly, monthly and quarterly performance reviews for sales managers and sales representatives to progressively increase productivity and boost sales performance.
- Achieved company sales goals by automating sales process improvements, regulating HR policies and creating a sales culture.
- Implemented new hire and ongoing sales training with customized curriculum.
- Managed a team of ten employees including two Senior Sales Representatives while maintaining high sales metrics.
- Transformed brand new team into the most efficient and profitable team in the company.
- Mentored 13 sales representatives into top performers and new sales managers.
-Made up to 60 sales calls daily, consistently being a top producer and exceeding quota.
-Top salesperson over my first six month span in a sales department of over 35 agents.
Management Minor
3.3 GPA (3.9 Pre-Medical Post Baccalaureate GPA)