Craig Chavis has 29 years of experience with the research, testing, selection, architecture, design, and implementation phases of contact center and real-time communications hardware and applications solutions. This includes 9 years in customer facing roles as a sales engineer and solutions architect. Those roles included responsibilities for the requirements analysis, architecture, solution recommendation, technical assessment, and design phases of small, medium, and enterprise scale projects. We discuss: A journey from on-premise to a [private] cloud space [1:35] How to become aware of the gaps in your business [4:36] The right time to get downsized [6:24] Resisting the temptation to saying “yes” to headhunters [8:05] The butterflies for being your own business person [10:44] The big thing about being in business [12:04] The answers to the questions you don’t know about your business [13:27] Not yet a consultant but still an employee [16:40] The game is years long, not months long [18:14]

Learn more about Craig at cchavis@chaveconsulting.com.