Thomas Pött
Bis 2021, Director (Strategy Sales Enablement), Sycor Gruppe
Munich, Germany
Timeline
Professional experience for Thomas Pött
Current 2 years, since Nov 2021
Group Manager, Modern Workplace Architecture
Avanade Deutschland GmbH - ein Joint Venture von Accenture & Microsoft
Current 2 years, since Nov 2021
Group Manager, Modern Workplace Architecture
Avanade Deutschland GmbH - ein Joint Venture von Accenture & Microsoft
With Sycor, I start a new Cloud based Sales Enablement Role. A corporate, strategic position driving the Digital Business Transformation necessary moving to new Cloud related managed Service and Business Process Management. Major topic along with DBT are Cloud Adoption Services. I'm driving the strategic Sales Enablement in coorperation with Business Units delivering new Solutions Ready for our Cloud Age.
Groupwide responsibility driving the Microsoft partnership and business alliance in the areas of EPG & SME. Development of global Business Plans, GTM strategies and Customer Pipelines, incl. driving and coordinating publication, press releases, events and pushing marketing along our global strategy. Archiving steady growth and restructuring our company into a "Cloud Only" organization. Reporting directly into the Executive Board.
1 year and 6 months, Feb 2018 - Jul 2019
Head of Customer Success, Head of Microsoft Sales
Trans4mation IT GmbHIn my new role as Head of Customer Success, the new department builds the chain between Sales, Marketing and Delivery, ensuring customer success in all kinds of project. Changing processes, workflows and traditional habits in corporations/ firms to a Modern Workplace, driving limited risk project with innovative services. The Microsoft Sales Team strongly focus on exiting and new customer adapting Microsoft Cloud Technologies. As lead, in my additional role managing the team bringing in KPI based sales.
2 years and 1 month, Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
Business Unit Leader Microsoft Skype for Business
Westcon Group Germany GmbH - UCC Solutions
In Kooperation mit ausgewählten Partnern will ich mit Westcon Produkt- und Lösungsansätze nach dem Office-365-Enterprise-E5-Modell für Cloud-basierte TK-Anlagen erarbeiten. Diese sollen insbesondere mittelständischen Resellern eine bessere Positionierung am Markt ermöglichen und durch den Wegfall umsatzbindender Personal- und Hardware-Aufwendungen den Cashflow verbessern.
1 year and 2 months, Nov 2014 - Dec 2015
Principal Consultant/ Business Development Manager
Allgeier Productivity Solutions GmbHWith Allgeier I expanded my consultancy and team leading capabilities with 9 team members. In addition, I focus of corporate business developing tasks. Starting with required certifications and partnering, where I promoted APS instantly as Microsoft Managed Partner in Germany and business partner with Deutsche Telekom Technischer Service. Cloud and on-premise service are to be developed, where business decision matrixes must be provided too the management board of the public holding company.
2 years and 3 months, Sep 2012 - Nov 2014
Managing Consultant
ACP IT Solutions AG
Managing Consultant for LYNC and SYSTEM CENTER. My focus is on business development, team development and professional sales in the common areas of Unified Communication (Voice) and Private Cloud. Coordination with Microsoft Partner Management
2 years and 4 months, Jun 2010 - Sep 2012
Managing Director
InfoWAN Asia Sdn. Bhd.
I convinced the company infoWAN Datenkommunikation GmbH to expand their business into SEA region. , I went back to Germany to further study the business ethic of infoWAN, where I involved myself in several mid- and large-sized Exchange and Active Directory projects, additionally to establish business relationships with German companies e.g. Ferrari Electronic and KEMP technology to include their portfolio into infoWAN Asia.
2 years and 6 months, Apr 2010 - Sep 2012
Senior Principal Consultant
infoWAN Asia Sdn Bhd
Development of Unified Communication solution, regading higher RoI and envisioning the corporate communication infrastructure Designing Hybrid Cloud Solutions based on Office 365 and Microsoft On-Premise Infrastructure
3 years and 5 months, 2007 - May 2010
Managing Director APAC
TRIA IT-Consulting Malaysia Shd. Bhd.
Due to the relationship which I established with TRIA, I changed my job to work with TRIA IT Solution AG to convince the Management in establishing an Asian subsidiary. During the first year with TRIA, I freelance for certain EPG customer of TRIA and was leading Exchange 2003/ 2007 Migration.I established the Office Communication Server 2007 Voice Partnership between Microsoft and TRIA and leaded the OCS team, trained the local German technical and sales staff.I was awarded to join the Microsoft InnerCircle
2005 - 2007
Managing Director/ Senior Principal Consultant
Request² GmbH
With the good relationship to Fujitsu Siemens Computers, I founded Request² in Garching with a former FSC Sales Manager. I developed the technical expertise of Request², where I got in touch with the first deployments of VoIP system from SWYX Germany. Our customers came from the SMS&P and EPG market, where I leaded the teams to deploy mainly Exchange, Active Directory
2001 - 2005
Senior Principal Consultant, Managing Director
TP-SYSTEMS
Later I was chosen to become the pre-sales technical team lead to develop technical solution and proposal for the strategic enterprise customers like Siemens Group, Continental AG, Commerce Bank, Deutsche Post and others. Beside of Microsoft technologies, consulting for PrimePower Mainframe systems were in my scope of work. I had the possibility at FSC to develop the first Exchange 2003 Geographical Cluster Solution without any 3rd party product, based on our own Microsoft related scripts
1998 - 2001
Chief Technology Office
GEMINI Software GmbH
Personally I manifested my technical expertise in Microsoft infrastructure technologies, e.g. Domain technologies, Exchange and related products. In networking/ Internet technology I was responsible to support PSINet in south Bavaria for 3rd level connectivity issues in their FrameRelay network. I managed GEMINI to become one of the first Private Cloud partners with Citix WinFrame 3.51.
1992 - 1997
Software Development
TP-SYSTEMS
Job as Software Developer during my studies at University of Duisburg. Developing Cable Route Routing Software based on KKS. At Vössing Developer for Deutsch Bahn HAFAS. At Intergraph I developed DataWareHouse System Components for NT4.0 and experienced the first contact with NT 4.0 Domain Controllers. During my job at WET, I developed my fi
Educational background for Thomas Pött
Elektrotechnik (Electrical Engineering), BWL(Business administration)
Universität GH Duisburg, FH München
Languages
German
First language
English
Fluent
Bahasa Malay
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