Siva Thiagarajan

20+ years of experience of selling software products and services in recruitment, tech publishing, and tech training. Experienced in achieving high growth sales targets, marketing strategies, vendor relationships and management.

Experience

Sales Support Specialist
Team Logic IT, North Brunswick, NJ, Oct 2023 - present

Managed Service Provider providing IT services to local businesses

Make sales calls to local business owners and sell IT support services.

Work with account manager to create and implement targeted sales strategies

Keep up with new product sales launches and make sure the sales team is up to date

Provide customer service by staying on top of pending orders and customer requests

Expert in using Autotask (CRM), Zomentum (Quote) and Keap (Email Marketing).

Consultant
OneSight Technologies and E2Clouds Inc, Alpharetta, GA, Oct 2022 – Aug 2023

Mobile App and Web Application Development Company

Built the product roadmap and helped them rolled out an MVP in 3 months.

Coached an offshore team with 10+ developers.

Sales - Cofounder (Startup #3 – Recruitment Search Engine)
Backyard Search Software Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India, Nov 2016 - Aug 2021 

A suite of highly efficient and scalable SaaS Recruitment products that solve the needs of high-growth functional recruitment teams.

Managed sales pipeline and converted opportunities to wins.

Exited profitably by selling it to AARGEE Staffing Solutions, Chennai, India, in 2021.

Sales - Cofounder (Startup #2 – Tech Magazine)
Healthy Code Magazine, Chennai, India, Apr 2014 - Jun 2015

A monthly programming magazine for developers with articles and interviews from ex- pert programmers around the world.

Performed all around business development, marketing and sales activities

Built and owned the website subscription services and payment interfaces.

Interviewed many world-renowned programmers and authors like Richard Stallman (GNU),

Mark Richards, and Scott Davis.

Sales, Co-Founder (Startup #1 – Tech Training)
DuraSoft, Houston, USA and Chennai, India, Apr 1999 - Aug 2021

A global technology training company focused on training software developers.

Established vendor relationships with 50+ top-tier software development companies.

Sold 2000+ technology training courses to customers.

Built a global footprint with a client base in the US, France, Israel, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia,

Singapore, Australia and India.

Managed annual pricing and contracts.

Developed new training courses in Go Lang, React, Micro Services, Spring Boot, etc.

Generated $1.5M in revenue in the first few years making it profitable from the start.

Non-profit Roles

Tamil Heritage Trust – Current Leadership Team, Treasurer.
Sophia Merit Scholarships – Past Board Member and Chief Operating Officer. Rotary Club of Madras East – Past Member and Director of Club Services.

University of Houston, Master of Business Administration, Finance.
The University of Alabama, Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. The University of Madras, Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering.