About me

Devina Yadav Baker

Director Pre-sales and Professional Services

Profile

A multi-faceted professional and a Presales leader in Cloud Services and eCommerce domain with 12+ years of experience

Awards

President's Award Sales Top Gun APJ
2019

For going above and beyond and for playing the role of a Sales representative, while on Pre-sales role and getting new business deals in FY
2019

President's Award Pre-sales Top Gun APJ CloudBlue
2018

For efficiently handling pre-sales consultation in the biggest deal signed in CloudBlue history

Star Award
vDrivit Solutions
2016

For excellency in handling customer assignments

Courses

2018

Pass with High Honors – Top 5%

2020 - Present
2020 - Present

Education

Aug 2004 – May 2008 | Pune, India

First Class with Distinction

Guiding Principles

  • Positivity
  • Passion
  • Creativity
  • Tenacity
  • Trust
  • Customer Centricity

Professional Experience

Jul 2018 – present | Singapore
  • Lead team of technology evangelists and architects
  • Streamline, refine and elevate Pre-sales and Professional services function. Advocate best practices.
  • Drive new business and revenue growth focused on Big enterprise segment (B2B sales) – Challenger sales practitioner, consultative selling approach
  • Thought lead customers on digital transformation journeys, be
    the trusted advisor
  • Build regional network in targeted market segments, build
    brand awareness, attend and present at industry events
  • Achieved 120% Quarterly average revenue growth
  • Drove pre-sales consultation for the biggest deal in CloudBlue history. Played role of one-man army to sign deal with one of the Top operators in Singapore
  • Joined the team as Pre-sales consultant, picked up new role in
    one year
  • Regular speaker at industry events such as CommunicAsia,
    Cloud Summit, Microsoft events
Aug 2013 – Jun 2018 | UK and India
  • Learnt to put-on multiple professional hats and learnt different aspects of a business
  • Focused on America’s and EMEA region
  • Marketing, Sales and Business Development
    • Led and contributed to 90+ unique net new customer opportunities. Grew pipeline by 30%
    • Expanded business partnership network with Microsoft, VMWare and Hitachi Data Systems
  • Pre-sales Consultation | Project Delivery and customer enablement
    • Designed Cloud services architecture and delivered projects for Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) in UK, Nordics, US, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia
    • Facilitated Go-To-Market launch and trained customers
  • Account Management and Client Relationship management
  • Product Management
    • Liased with CTO and product managers to align product roadmap based on the market demand
Oct 2010 – Jul 2013 | Dubai and India
  • Kicked-off the role as Quality Assurance analyst. Managed Quality assurance verification checks and cycles for Ensim’s technology stack.
  • Increased Detect Detection Efficiency by 20%
  • Decreased QA cycle timelines by 30% by automating the
    processes. Helped streamline overall software release cycle and process
  • Transitioned to Project Delivery role in one year for one of the Top telecoms in Dubai. Orchestrated world’s first Hosted Microsoft Sharepoint deployment.
  • Continued architecting Cloud services & Ensim technology solution designs. Delivered Professional services for top Telecoms and CSPs in Australia, Finland, Iceland and UK.
  • Managed client relationship and Go-To-Market launch process
Jul 2008 – Sep 2010 | India
  • Managed IT infrastructure and provided assistance to customers of Level 3 Telecommunications (a US-based MNC), spread across America’s, Europe, UK and Asia
  • Learnt from the best of the breed veterans in IT services domain
  • Won several Spot awards for high performance
  • Achieved and maintained consistent 4+ GPA (against 5) in Global business finishing school; Top 5% in the batch

Skills

Consultative Selling - Trusted Advisor role 95%
Challenger Sales Practitioner 90%
Enterprise Selling - Complex Sales Strategies 85%
Thought Leadership 90%
Client Management 90%
Work Ethics 90%