My Resume

San Diego, CA (open to remote)
858.335.4610 | mmgstaley@gmail.com

Professional Summary

AWS Certified AI Practitioner with 9+ years of B2B sales experience at Amazon. Proven track record of driving revenue growth, identifying AI/ML opportunities that generate $1M+ in Professional Services revenue, and developing relationships with CXOs. Seeking an AI/ML focused sales role leveraging strategic foresight to help people and companies adopt transformative AI technologies.

Key Achievements

  • Prospected AI/ML use cases that led to over $1.2M in Professional Services contracts with AWS customers since 2024, via C-Suite and Partner alignment
  • Launched multiple Global 500 companies (Tesla, Schneider Electric) as sellers on Amazon Business
  • Promoted from Level 4 to Level 5 my third year at Amazon Business, after producing $25M+ in revenue
  • Enabled Treering to enter a new market, which led to them making the Inc 5,000 List at #346
  • Promoted from Emerging to Mid Market team after my first year at AWS
  • Grew AWS Marketplace spend by 488% in 2023, and from $60K to $630K in 2025

Experience

Amazon Web Services, Education Technology (Edtech) companies

Account Manager (AM), Mid Market

01/2023 - Present

  • Drive YoY growth in AWS spend while aligning solutions & Partners services to customer strategic priorities
  • Guided 2 product teams through successful market launches based on customer insights (Agilix, Treering)
  • 2025 - Saved customer $840K in labor costs by introducing AI solutions that reduced their content creation project timeline by 6 months; consultative approach led to $200K Professional Services contract
  • 2025 - YTD attainment is 100.8% against $12M quota, 102% for Gen AI services (5th highest of 59 AMs)
  • 2024 - Delivered 15% YoY growth in AWS spend against a $13.2M quota
  • 2024 - First team member to pass the AWS AI Certified Practitioner certification
  • 2024 - Top 4% in Gen AI spend due to an OpenAI to AWS takeaway opportunity
  • 2023 - Grew territory by 13% against a $9.8M quota; identified and closed a Partner credits program loophole, saving AWS $600K+
  • 2023 - Increased AWS Marketplace spend from $20K to $118K, the highest increase among 57 AMs

Amazon Web Services

Account Manager (AM), Emerging

10/2021 - 12/2022

  • Prospected into disengaged AWS customers & drove AWS adoption from greenfield prospects
  • 114% attainment in 2022 due to executive level engagements and strategic planning
  • Only AM of 57 to close LearnPlatform deal via AWS Marketplace during division wide campaign

Amazon Business (Amazon.com for businesses)

Account Representative I → II

01/2017 - 10/2021

  • Prospected, cold called and launched new & existing Amazon.com sellers on Amazon Business
  • Averaged +49% across 5 KPIs in 2020, delivered more launches than 88% of L5's team members
  • In 2019, +3% to launch plan, +80% to revenue plan, +17% to High Quality Launch plan, and 9th in Quality Launch Score against 47 other account representatives
  • Among 55 account reps, was one of 4 reps to create 50+ Voice of the Customer anecdotes, driving 2 UX improvements in Amazon Seller Central
  • Promoted from Level 4 to Level 5 after my 3rd year

Education

B.S. Computer Information Systems, Minor in Spanish
Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business
Graduated May 2014

Skills & Certifications

Certifications: AWS Certified AI Practitioner | AWS Cloud Practitioner Certified

Core Competencies: Technical Requirements Documentation | Strategic Foresight | MEDDPICC | Aligning Business Goals to Technology Solutions | AWS AI/ML Solution Selling | Internal Collaboration & Navigation

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