As a Business Communications professional in Silicon Valley, Ron Schmidt has devoted his career to helping organizations and teams increase revenue and engagement. Ron has led and supported cross-functional initiatives at startups, small public companies, and Fortune 50 brands. He has worked with executives and managers on change management initiatives to increase engagement, drive revenue and promote brand awareness. His passion is working with the industry’s brightest leaders, sales managers, programmers, engineers, and subject matter experts to capture their message and tailor it for specific internal and external audiences.
Beginning with his first position as technical writer, he has focused on communications for complex technology solutions spanning networking, cloud, storage, security, high performance computing, managed services, SaaS platforms, medical devices and more. He has an extensive portfolio with hundreds of communications plans, presentations, client success stories, ghost-written emails, video scripts, surveys, pitches, press releases, briefing books, employee newsletters, customer testimonial videos, end user manuals, technical documentation, and more.
Ron has written and produced 100+ sales proposals and RFP responses for a wide range of IT solutions and services, resulting in >$150M in revenue. He excels collaborating with Sales, Engineering, Product Development, Compliance, Executives, and other stakeholders to research, write, edit, and format content. He has created proposals with solutions from leading IT vendors, including Aruba, AWS, Cisco, HPE, Juniper, Microsoft, NetApp, Nutanix, Palo Alto Networks and VMware.
"I wholeheartedly endorse Ron as as talented proposal writer who excels as a collaborator with subject-matter experts, executives, and managers across the entire organization. I relied on Ron multiple times to respond to the Technology Marketplace RFP for the City and County of San Francisco, which has resulted in tens of millions of dollars for the company over the past decade. Ron doesn't backs away from a challenge--he puts in the work to meet deadlines and exceed expectations."
"Ron has the right skillset to deliver exceptional proposals. He can articulate the business and technical benefits of complex technologies, and package them into professional proposals. I relied on Ron to craft a multi-million dollar data center proposal for a regional physician's network. Ron's effort compiling, writing and formatting the proposal was critical to winning the contract. On every project, Ron consistently delivers high-quality proposals that reflect his commitment to excellence."
"Ron helped me successfully convert transactional resale customers to strategic business relationships, as well as transforming my own approach to account management. His ability to translate emerging and esoteric concepts into impact for customers and sales with energy, passion, dedication, and follow-through is a unique combination of skills you practice and innate character that would serve any organization who can give you the opportunity and room to harness and apply it."
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