User:Jimcaruso

Profile of Jim Caruso
Mr. Caruso is an executive manager of venture development, sales, and functional areas with a global record of achievement identifying key decision-makers, and managing/leading multi-national teams to sales and partnerships in new media, telecommunications, and computing. He successfully conceived, structured, and won complex, profitable deals of greater than $100 million. He promoted and/or sold to hot tech companies, such as Aether (IPO), InterVu (acquired by Akamai), Eircom (IPO), Extreme Logic (acquired by HP), Gideon Technologies (acquired by Symantec), LeanLogistics (acquired), Merlot Communications (venture funded), iMedeon (venture funded), Libit (acquired by TI), PowerTV (acquired by Scientific-Atlanta), and FaxNet (acquired). He managed direct sales and partnering that won deals across the global telecommunications industry in Australia, Belgium, China, Finland, France, India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Philippines, Sweden, and Thailand. He is an effective technology evangelist to worldwide audiences of executive and functional managers in telecom, finance, engineering, IT, and marketing. Development methodology and market understanding make him effective in the project and product development life cycle and release to market on time at target cost. Wins customer loyalty through effective listening and technical expertise. Communicates value propositions phrased in the words of the customer or audience. Establishes effective relationships at all levels of an organization. Currently, he is CEO and chair of MediaFirst PR - Atlanta.

Specialties:
Convergence: Telecom (wireline, wireless, Internet, cable), Media, & Computing. Engineering, Manufacturing, & Logistics. Global account and industry sales. Deal structure, margin, legal, and alliances. Managing multi-cultural, multi-national teams.

Online Profile of Jim Caruso:
Guy from Earth. Global technology evangelist. Bleeding-edge, early adopter. Dangerously technical. Writer, deal-maker, engineer, speaker, and enabler of multi-cultural, multi-national teams. Interested in semantic Web social media, blogging, quality, and everything tech. Play with CMS/blog engines link Drupal, [http:wordpress.org link WordPress], link Typepad, etc. Enjoy speedy, WC3-complaint Web sites (link World Wide Web Consortium). Advocate for transparency, liberty, Internet Freedom / Net Neutrality (link Net Neutrality: This is serious), and the Open Web link Open Web Foundation.

Family member of Jim Caruso on Wikipedia:
Director Robert Caruso[] is a brother of Jim Caruso.

Personal Website and Blog of Jim Caruso:

 * link JimCaruso.com
 * link blog.JimCaruso.com
 * link MediaFirst