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J. B. (John Blevins) is a Unified Communications Solution Specialist with the Microsoft Corporation where he specializes in all forms of Internet communications including e-mail, voicemail, online presence, instant messaging, Voice over IP, web conferencing, multi party audio/video conferencing and their integration through a suite of products. His previous roles as Senior System Engineer, Consultant and Salesperson covered database and electronic data interchange (EDI) specializations. His career path includes 3 companies; Microsoft, Oracle and Shell Oil, based in Houston, Dallas, New York, Miami, London and Los Angeles over the past 21 years. His extensive domestic and international business experience offer his clients the knowledge required in today's digital global marketplace. Mr. Blevins has a Bachelor's of Science in Engineering with a heavy concentration in Speech Communications from the University of Alabama, as well as work towards a Master's in Business Administration at Southern Methodist University. He is currently attending the University of California at Los Angeles Anderson School of Management in a Masters program. Mr. Blevins is an avid traveler and has visited all 7 continents on Earth. He is an amateur photographer and enjoys urban biking, hiking, snowboarding, and all water sports. Additional information may be found at http://JohnBlevins.com.Please use this picture for conference brochures, speaker listings, public relations printings and general audience introductions. If you need this picture in different formats (GIF, JPEG, etc...) please contact me.
AREAS OF EFFECTIVENESS
As a Unified Communications (UC) Solution Specialist, I help Microsoft's clients enable instant communication throughout their enterprises. By taking advantage of presence information and unified conferencing (Voice, Video, Web), workers can make immediate business decisions. I have held several roles in UC including the greater Los Angeles commercial area and the Western Region Government sales and now I am responsible for UC Sales and market development in Southern California & Hawaii. In my previous position as a Senior Microsoft Technology Specialist, I was involved in many facets of corporate digital infrastructure and design to enable electronic commerce for our clients. My area of concentration was with Microsoft's E-Business Server product line, centered around Microsoft's BizTalk Server. BizTalk is a middleware solution that uses XML to enable electronic commerce (B2B) over the Internet and well as enterprise application integration (EAI) internal to a corporation. I participated in 2 field training programs where I worked on the BizTalk Server product team in Redmond, Washington, helping launch the product with Michael Dell of Dell Computer at the Windows 2000 Launch event in San Francisco. I have worked with many clients providing guidance to allow businesses to operate via XML with their trading partners and customers as well as internal systems. My original Microsoft position concentrated on SQL Server database and OLAP (Business Intelligence) integration to provide our customers a total data management solution. As the Business Intelligence field representative, I worked closely with Microsoft partners to determine the best BI Solution including Microsoft technology, third party applications and consulting services. I have a unique background of database expertise along with a firm understanding of business objectives for successful project implementation. I was involved in several areas of the Oracle Corporation over four years which included the Core Technologies, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and System Performance Group (SPG) Consulting practices. This wide range of technical groups developed my skills in Oracle RDBMS and Applications installations, upgrades, migrations and tuning. Additional skills include symmetric replication, snapshot replication, backup/recovery procedure implementation, third-party software integration, SQL coding and debugging, architecture design, multi-organization setup and database performance tuning. These attributes along with extensive global travel and solid business experience provide my basis for strong leadership in project development and implementation.
Unified Communications
My current role in the Unified Communications (UC) team as a Solution Specialist allows me to provide instant communications for our clients in Southern California as well as the Western US. I carry sales quota for Office Communication Server (OCS), LiveMeeting, Office Communicator, and the associated client access licenses including telephony. I have developed sales and marketing strategies for this rapidly emerging market and provide clients with messaging solutions that integrate with applications, Office, the Windows desktop and the enterprise Active Directory infrastructure. My clients have included key West region accounts, like Intel as well as government agencies and all Southern California commercial accounts.
Industry Solutions-Government
I formerly worked in Microsoft's State & Local Government (SLG) Practice where I was responsible for providing e-business solutions for our government customers. I work directly with clients as well as a virtual team of account representatives, consulting services, product leads, inside sales, management and solution partners (ISV & consulting). Solutions include a middleware solution consisting of BizTalk Server, SQL Server, Content Management Server, Commerce Server, SharePoint, Exchange, Office and Windows 2003. My clients included all government agencies in the 13 western US states that were not Federal in scope.
Industry Solutions-Telecommunications
In a previous role, I was in the Network Service Providers (NSP) Practice focusing on business solutions for the telecommunications/broadband industry in North America. These solutions included content management and creation, development and distribution as well as ASP business model refinement. I worked with our clients to show them how to effectively distribute these services, provide technologies to support the ISP marketplace, increase co-marketing efforts to promote software use via broadband access to businesses and consumers, data and trend analysis, integration of legacy and UNIX systems with Windows 2000/.NET via XML and other methods to enable high-productivity, low-cost solutions. These solutions used existing data sources for my architecture planning with XML enablement of current business processes and overall integration of Microsoft products into the telecommunications industry. My clients included Verizon, Verizon Wireless, AT&T, AT&T Wireless, AT&T Broadband, BellSouth, Cingular, Worldcom, Nextlink, SBC, Qwest, Charter Communications, Williams Communications, Level 3, Ericsson, Broadwing, Alcatel, XO Communications, Sprint, ICG Communications, Alltel, Data Return, Digex, USi.net, ManagedOps.com, Interpath, and many others as well as third party independent software vendors.
Electronic Commerce
Experience with multiple large corporate and government computing infrastructures and demonstrating the technologies available to achieve the desired business results. Specialization and concentration in Electronic Commerce, BizTalk Server, XML code generation for B2B Internet commerce, Commerce Server, electronic storefronts, business intelligence, data warehousing, database establishment, integration and design to effectively serve the business requirements. Extremely close working relationship with sales, consulting, development and partners to facilitate the appropriate resources where needed.
Streaming Media
Experience with Microsoft's Windows Media products including corporate intranet steaming deployments, live and on-demand video/audio streaming, digital rights management, content management and content creation. Supplementary technologies include instant messaging, real-time collaboration, live interaction, coordinating streaming such as synchronized presentations.
Business Intelligence
In-depth knowledge of Microsoft OLAP Analysis Services and multiple third party OLAP tools for analyzing and creating business advantage from large amounts of data. Development of data cubes from large data warehouses or data marts housed on multiple platforms or technologies, including Mainframes, DB2, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, flat files and other ODBC-compliant data sources.
System Performance Group (SPG) Consulting
Extensive experiences with Oracle consulting engagements involving the entire enterprise of client's information systems. These experiences include performance tuning of the Oracle RDBMS, symmetric replication, Oracle Parallel Server (OPS), data warehousing, benchmarking and stress testing, high availability backup and recovery as well as new technology deployment.
Windows & Oracle
Extensive involvement with Windows NT platforms and their integration into a client's computing enterprise. Developed a Windows NT OFA (Optimal Flexible Architecture) architecture design and implemented this design on several client enterprises. Written custom SQL code to automate the Oracle Snapshot and Symmetric Replication process at multiple locations. Establishment of Oracle's Symmetric Replication code on NT servers to provide services for other clients on both Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 platforms. Installed the Oracle RDBMS many times on the NT platform offering expertise at implementing this code with optimal performance in mind. Designed backup and recovery strategies for Windows NT platforms. Training has included numerous hands-on hours, but also Microsoft Education Administering Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Oracle RDBMS on the Microsoft Windows NT Platform classroom training.
CPG Experience
Member of Oracle's Consumer Package Goods (CPG) Center of Excellence gaining skills in integrating Oracle's RDBMS and Applications with third party software products successfully at over 15 client sites around the world. Proven ability to understand the complexities of software from different development teams and ensure the products seamlessly interact to provide client solutions. Skills refined include self-initiative to learn product knowledge where none existed before, working with team members from a variety of companies and handling production-site, software code deficiency concerns within strict timeframes. Skills include extensive field experience from CPG sites across the globe offering a real-world perspective of what is needed to make this product successful in the marketplace. Knowledge of the Datalogix GEMMS and IMI ESS software products.
Business Skills
My engineering degree was used as the base to grow my computer skills. With knowledge in UNIX on over 10 vendor platforms, vi, SQL, sqlplus, C shell programming, HTML, personal computers including DOS, Windows and Macintosh, and limited knowledge on VMS platforms and JAVA, I bring an extensive set of skills to my assignments. Benchmarking and stress testing skills have been developed using Mercury Interactive's, Loadrunner software. Additionally, my consulting skills have received high regard from many of the 90+ clients I have worked with. Producing consistently high utilization levels as a result of a very high work ethic has resulted in increased productivity and profitability for each project team I have been associated with. The contributions of deliverable products I have made to each practice resulted in rapid promotion from Staff to Principle in just two years. Along with these skills, I bring some MBA graduate school work, an extensive global travel perspective and numerous Education and outside training class experiences.
Communication Skills
The heavy emphasis on speech communication training in my educational curriculum has provided me the ability to effectively communicate technical topics so they are easily understood. These skills have been honed during fifteen years as a field technical consultant. Producing effective educational knowledge dissemination tools is just another example of my ability to bring clients to a higher level of understanding. I offer strong skills in interacting with different people from different groups or companies creating effective team cohesion and productivity.
Microsoft Corporation (1998-Present)
Solution Specialist, Unified Communications (UC), Southern California & Western Government
Senior Technology Specialist, Government Practice & Telecommunications Practice
Business Intelligence Field Product Manager, Electronic Commerce-Business Solutions Group
Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami
Blevins Enterprises (1998)
Independent consulting work for Fortune 50 company providing advance UNIX and Oracle architecture/configuration services.Pittsburgh
Oracle Corporation (1994-1998)
Staff, Senior & Principle Consultant-Advanced Technologies, Core Technologies, Consumer Packaged Goods Vertical & System Performance Group.London, Miami, New York, Dallas
Shell Oil Company (1990-1994)
Senior Territory Representative-Oil Products Division in Metro New York City, Texas and Oklahoma.New York, Dallas, Houston
Master's of Business Administration Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
One year completed of a three year executive program.
- G.P.A.: 3.25/4.0
Business Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Various Evening and weekend courses in management and leadership
- G.P.A. Overall 4.0/4.0
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Minor Concentration: Speech Communication
- G.P.A. in Major: 3.6/4.0
- G.P.A. in Minor: 4.0/4.0
- G.P.A. Overall 3.1/4.0
High Technology Specific Training
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year Awards 2009
Discussion on developing a training course
TRAVEL EXPERIENCE
MISCELLANEOUS
- United States citizen
- No restrictions to perform job functions
- No restrictions/issues for international travel
- United States government security clearance capable
