ATLANTA (PRWEB) December 14, 2018
Total Server Solutions, a global provider of managed services, high performance infrastructure, and custom solutions to individuals and businesses in a wide range of industries has formally announced the hiring of Jim Harris as Channel Director. Harris, an industry veteran, is an experienced channel professional with over 16 years of channel experience. At his 3 previous companies, Harris was tasked with developing and overseeing the start-up of their channel programs. He will look to continue and build off that success at TSS by providing the keys to TSS' extensive platform of custom engineered services to the re-seller community.
“TSS is truly excited to have Jim Harris join us as we continue our mission of providing our IT platform to customers who need global IT enablement. Jim brings many years of channel leadership and industry knowledge to our team. He will help TSS accelerate our go to market strategy as we head into 2019, which will be a break out year for TSS," said Mike Belote, Vice President of Sales at Total Server Solutions. "The channel is important to TSS because it increases our visibility in the marketplace, and gives us the opportunity to build on our solid reputation as a trusted IT leader and partner, servicing over 4000 customers in 31 PoPs around the world, offering Infrastructure as a Service, Network, and Managed Services to companies who need that orchestrated global platform to access and manage IT workloads anywhere in the world.“
Harris will directly engage with the sales team to develop and implement a complete corporate channel strategy for Total Server Solutions translating TSS' sales goals into channel strategies creating revenue for both TSS and their partners. In addition, he will oversee and administer the selection of channel marketing partners, budgets, and the positioning of all channel related sales activities.
Previously Harris served as National Channel Manager for Stratus Technologies, Peak 10, and Office Depot's CompuCom division. From New York, he studied at Fredonia State University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida where he obtained his pilots license. Jim is married with four children and resides in central Florida.