Jared
byrd SR
Jared Byrd Sr
Beyond the Roles: Helping Others Succeed
Community
Organizations I'm proud to support with my time, energy, and resources.
Ronald McDonald House Charities, St. Mary’s Food Bank
American Service Animal Society, The Ryan House
Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Feed My Starving Children
Coaching Future Leaders & High Performers
Leadership & bookings contribution doesn't stop at your own team. I absolutely love contributing in other ways outside of my "day job" to help the organization win.
Below are examples of initiatives I was involved in atVMware
VMware Sales Leader Enablement Advisory Council Contributor
VMware New Employee Sales Training Speaker & Author
VMware Joint Selling Partner Program Contributing Member
VMware Talent University Program Sales Recruitment Leader
VMware Women in Sales Mentorship (WAiS) Mentor
VMware Value Selling Model Contributing Member
VMware America’s Leadership Development Participant (2X)
Executive Shadowing Program Participant
Leading the WW VMware Sales Leadership Sales Kickoff, 2023, Ideation & Collaboration Workshop. Mike Gannon, President of VMware & Former CRO of Snowflake, was the executive sponsor of the workshop.
Guest main stage presentor at Insights WW Sales Kickoff on the topic hot topic of hyper-convergered infrastructure. Audience was ~3,000 sales & pre-sales professionals.
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
3X VMware President's Club
2X VMware “Pitch 2 Win” Contest Winning Team
Thought Leadership Award
VMware
Account Executive of the Year
VMware SLED Sales Organization
Impact Leadership Award
VMware
6X America’s
Partner Business Manager of the Quarter
VMware
Innovator of the Year
VMware
VMware RADIO Presentor
(Research And Development Innovation Offsite) Paper Acceptance & Presentor
ACCREDITATIONS & CERTIFICATIONS
Experience & results tell part of the story. These accreditations reflect the work I put in to stay fluent in the solutions I sell and the customers & partners I serve.
iPED certified
VMWARE VSP 9
AWS BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL
Channel industry education and certification focused on best practices for building, managing, and accelerating revenue through partner ecosystems
Sales accreditation covering VMware VCF solution positioning, private cloud fundamentals, and strategies for success.
Accredited in articulating the business value of AWS cloud services and aligning solutions to customer needs.
VMware CSM
VMware Multi-Cloud Big Deal Maker
VMware VTSP
VMware's flagship internal sales enablement program. Specialist requires presenting a big deal proposal to a panel.
Certified in driving customer adoption, retention, and ongoing value across VMware's solution portfolio.
Pre-sales technical certification for positioning and selling VMware solutions through the technical sales cycle.
non-cert OR accreditation BEARING LEARNINGS in development
Google generative ai leader certification
AZURE AZ-900
Claude Co-Work (PROJECTS, ARTIFACTS, SKILLS)
Claude Code in Xcode (built one MAC OS app thus far)
KIMI Agent Swarm
Claude Code + Flutter for Mobile App Dev
Git Hub Repo Claude Integrations
Claude Agents
Other tools: Google Gemini, AWS Quick, Chat GPT, Perplexity, Lovable
A foundational-level credential offered by Google Cloud designed for managers, executives, and business strategists who want to drive AI initiatives without needing to write code
The AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals is an entry-level certification that validates foundational knowledge of cloud concepts, Azure services, security, privacy, compliance, and management (Completed course, but need to take the exam:)
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"If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.” Mario Andretti
"Individual commitments to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." Vince Lombardi
"A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others."
John C. Maxwell
"If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing."
"The more you know, the more you know you don't know." Aristotle
"Trust is the hidden variable to speed."
Franklin Covey