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He is strongest in complex, multi\-site national\-account sales, consultative deal structuring, C\-level relationship building, competitive displacement, and customer\-retention strategy\. Zenas has sold to enterprises ranging from 250 to more than 50,000 employees and manages budget, SLA, and technical considerations across long sales cycles\. He builds a 100% self\-sourced pipeline without internal or inbound lead support and has achieved 267% of MRR quota\. His technical foundation spans network infrastructure as well as security and hardware stacks\. Earlier roles at Lumen Technologies, Coretelligent, Spring Venture Group, Sherwin\-Williams, Southwestern College, Belltower Books, BLUE1647, and Amazon built experience in account management, customer success, business development, operations, technology support, coaching, and sales\. Zenas holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Southwestern College\. ## Services - Revenue & Profit Growth - Salesforce CRM Analytics - Territory Development - Contract Negotiation - Colocation Facilities - Building C\-Level Relationships - Business Acquisition - Strategic Accounts - Planning Budgeting & Forecasting - Customer Retention - Microsoft PowerPoint - Competitive Differentiation - EtherNet/IP - Lead Qualification - Business Administration - Coaching & Mentoring - Dedicated Internet - Executive Relationships - Qualifying Opportunities - Regulations - IP Transit - Business Initiatives - Organizational Development - Data Pipelines - Strategic Account Growth - Executive Coaching - Private Equity Firms - Account Directors - Recovery Plans - Business Process Improvement ## Highlights - Serves as National Account Manager for North America at Cogent Communications\. - Develops enterprise and wholesale revenue in global IP and data connectivity\. - Partners with Fortune 1000 enterprises, hyperscalers, and service providers across domestic and international markets\. - Sells dedicated Internet access, IP transit, Ethernet, point\-to\-point connectivity, optical wave transport, and colocation solutions\. - Manages complex, multi\-site national accounts and long sales cycles\. - Sold network infrastructure services to enterprises ranging from 250 to more than 50,000 employees\. - Designed a 25\-site bank network solution\. - Achieved 267% of MRR quota\. - Builds a 100% self\-sourced pipeline without internal support or inbound leads\. - Secured CEO approval for deal flexibility using a land\-and\-expand strategy\. - Manages enterprise deals spanning budget, SLA, and technical considerations\. - Builds C\-level and executive relationships and negotiates high\-value contracts\. - Applies a consultative, data\-driven approach to revenue growth, pipeline development, competitive displacement, market expansion, and customer retention\. - Collaborates cross\-functionally with engineering, provisioning, finance, account directors, and technology specialists\. - Brings technical knowledge across network infrastructure, security, and hardware stacks\. - Held Senior Sales Development Representative, Senior Customer Success Manager, and Enterprise Account Manager roles at Lumen Technologies\. - Supported Lumen solutions involving Adaptive Networking, Agile IT and cloud, hybrid WAN, wavelength and transport, and network security\. - Worked with Lumen offerings including network\-based security, managed firewall, IPS, VPN, and DDoS mitigation\. - As a Lumen Senior Customer Success Manager, worked to renew services and re\-engage downturning and underserved customers through high\-touch support and custom solutions\. - Worked as a Business Development Specialist at Coretelligent, supporting prospect qualification, cold prospecting, market research, BANT, messaging, Salesforce management, and director\-to\-CXO outreach\. - Provided Coretelligent clients with industry insight on venture capital, private equity, biotech, legal technology, and digital transformation\. - Served as a Licensed Insurance Agent at Spring Venture Group\. - At Sherwin\-Williams, supported store operations, budgeting, inventory control, associate training, market forecasting, project planning, and customer development\. - At Southwestern College, resolved student device issues including virus removal, troubleshooting, hardware repair, email setup, and computer imaging\. - Created and developed Southwestern College's esports department culture, including sponsorships, team coaching, event planning, budgets, recruitment, academic advising, travel, and space development\. - Managed five textbook buybacks as Campus Captain and Book Buyer at Belltower Books\. - Completed a BLUE1647 internship involving basic coding, game design, story development, intern leadership, and project\-management learning\. - At Amazon, met plan goals every night in Stower and Packer roles and sometimes assisted a manager with IT problems\. - Earned a Master of Business Administration from Southwestern College, with study in business administration and management, economics, and change management\. - Earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Business Administration and Management, General, from Southwestern College\. ## Experience - **National Account Manger at Cogent Communications** (2024\-08\-01–present) — Results\-driven National Account Manager with a proven track record of driving enterprise and wholesale revenue growth in the global IP and data connectivity space\. At Cogent Communications, I partner with Fortune 1000 enterprises, hyperscalers, and service providers to deliver high\-performance, cost\-effective Internet, Ethernet, and wavelength solutions across domestic and international markets\. I specialize in managing complex, multi\-site national accounts, navigating long sales cycles, and aligning Cogent’s Tier 1 network capabilities with customers’ strategic business objectives\. Known for building trusted C\-level relationships, negotiating high\-value contracts, and consistently exceeding revenue targets through a consultative, data\-driven sales approach\. Core strengths include: Enterprise & National Account Sales IP Transit, DIA, Ethernet, and Optical Networking Contract Negotiation & Deal Structuring Revenue Growth & Pipeline Development Cross\-Functional Collaboration \(Engi - **Licensed Insurance Agent at Spring Venture Group** (2024\-05\-01–2024\-08\-01) - **Caregiving at Career Break** (2023\-07\-01–2024\-05\-01) — Spending time with family and new born\. - **Business Development Specialist at Coretelligent** (2022\-08\-01–2023\-06\-01) — As a Business Development Specialist at Coretelligent, I would reach out to qualified prospects to connect them with one of the country's top White Glove Master Service Providers\. I partnered with clients to provide industry insight into Venture Capital, Private Equity, Biotech, and Legal technology trends and digital transformation\. Daily activities included prospect qualification working with the director to CXO level, Salesforce management, cold prospecting, market research, BANT, and messaging development\. Experience with ZoomInfo, Outreach, Orem, ChatGPT, Salesforce, Linkedin Sales Navigator, and Office 365 - **Sr\. Sales Development Representative at Lumen Technologies** (2020\-11\-01–2022\-06\-01) — As a Sales Development Rep with Lumen, we have one of the largest networks and the largest product suites to offer my customers\. We will transform your digital business through Adaptive Networking, Agile IT/Cloud, hybrid WAN and other customized solutions\. We collaborate with a customer’s CIO, Network Manager, Infrastructure Manager or their end users to solve a wide array of industry problems and deliver robust solutions\. While partnering with your Account Director, we also assemble technology specialists to consult with you to determine the best solutions for your needs, and then gather and allocate the talent to implement these solutions\. My team understands that your network is the foundation for your digital business, and it’s critical for it to be secure and reliable\. But protecting your network perimeter can be complex and costly\. Lumen creates customized solutions for our diverse clients who seek to stay ahead of threats while maximizing budget—solutions that provide scalabi - **Sr Customer Success Manager at Lumen Technologies** (2019\-12\-01–2020\-10\-01) — As a Customer Success Manager, I worked with a customer base of customers to renew services, champion customer support, and relationship development\. My main focus accounters were down\-turning and underserved customers to retain them as a customer and move them into an active buying pattern by providing industry insight, high touch support, and custom solutions\. - **Enterprise Account Manager at Lumen Technologies** (2018\-01\-01–2019\-11\-01) — As an Account Director with Lumen, I have one of the largest networks and the largest product suites to offer my customers\. We will transform your digital business through Adaptive Networking, Agile IT/Cloud, hybrid WAN and other customized solutions\. I collaborate with a customer’s CIO, Network Manager, Infrastructure Manager or their end users to solve a wide array of industry problems and deliver robust solutions\. I also assemble technology specialists to consult with you to determine the best solutions for your needs, and then gather and allocate the talent to implement these solutions\. My team understands that your network is the foundation for your digital business, and it’s critical for it to be secure and reliable\. But protecting your network perimeter can be complex and costly\. Lumen creates customized solutions for our diverse clients who seek to stay ahead of threats while maximizing budget—solutions that provide scalability and support while ensuring compliance\. We offer - **Assistant Manager at Sherwin\-Williams** (2016\-09\-01–2017\-12\-01) — Assisting with store operations and budgeting\. Managing inventory control, store organization, Associate training and forecasting of market requirements\. Supporting customers through the process of planning projects, providing different plans to help manage costs and project needs to make sure they are completed on time and budget\. Finding new customers and building relationships with them to establish brand and product loyalty\. - **Manager in Training at Sherwin\-Williams** (2016\-07\-01–2016\-09\-01) - **Esports Coordinator & Coach at Southwestern College** (2015\-01\-01–2016\-05\-01) — Headed the creation and development of culture for eSports department at Southwestern College\. Responsibilities include: finding and managing local and national sponsorship, coaching and managing teams, event planning, event and competitive team budgeting, academic success advising, trip planning, emotional counselling, networking, Student recruitment, advising other schools with eSports creation, space creation and development, and leadership development\. - **Intern at BLUE1647** (2014\-06\-01–2014\-08\-01) — Learned basic coding from different languages\. Helped lead other interns in game design and story development\. Learned about project management from professionals in the field\. - **Campus IT Technician at Southwestern College** (2013\-12\-01–2016\-07\-01) — Assisted and resolved technical issues students have with their devices\. Duties performed include, but not limited to, clearing viruses, trouble shooting, repairing broken hardware, cleaning machines, setting up e\-mail accounts, and ghosting computers\. - **Stower at Amazon** (2013\-05\-01–2013\-08\-01) — Fast paced work environment Plan goal was met every night Some time helped manager with IT problems - **Stower at Amazon** (2012\-06\-01–2012\-08\-01) — Fast paced work environment Plan goal was met every night - **Campus Captain / Book Buyer at Belltower Books** (2012\-05\-01–2015\-01\-01) — Managed 5 buys \- keeping them with money to buy back textbooks and making sure that sales were set up in a way that customer experience was positive and personal\. Public Relations \- Making sure to keep a positive and legitimate image of textbook buyback company that was focused on customer experience\. - **Packer at Amazon** (2011\-06\-01–2011\-07\-01) — Fast paced work environment Plan goal was met every night ## Education - Master's degree, Business Administration and Management, Economics and Change Management — Southwestern College (2015\-01\-01–2016\-01\-01) - Bachelor of Business Administration, Business Administration and Management, General — Southwestern College (2011\-01\-01–2015\-01\-01) - Master of Business Administration — Southwestern College ## FAQ ### What does Zenas do? Zenas is National Account Manager for North America at Cogent Communications\. He works with Fortune 1000 enterprises, hyperscalers, and service providers to deliver high\-performance, cost\-effective IP and data\-connectivity services across domestic and international markets\. ### What connectivity solutions does Zenas work with? Zenas focuses on Waves, networks, dedicated Internet, and colocation across North America\. His current solution experience includes IP transit, dedicated Internet access, Ethernet, point\-to\-point connectivity, optical wave transport, and colocation facilities\. ### What are Zenas's strengths in enterprise sales? Zenas manages complex, multi\-site national accounts and long sales cycles\. He aligns Tier 1 network capabilities with customer objectives while addressing budgets, SLAs, technical requirements, contract terms, and implementation needs\. ### What types of customers and stakeholders does Zenas work with? Zenas has sold to large enterprises ranging from 250 to more than 50,000 employees\. He works with executive and technical stakeholders, including CIOs, network managers, infrastructure managers, and C\-level leaders\. ### How does Zenas develop pipeline and new business? Zenas builds 100% of his pipeline through self\-sourcing, without internal support or inbound leads\. His approach includes prospecting, account planning, market research, opportunity qualification, competitive intelligence, relationship development, and consultative, data\-driven selling\. ### What notable enterprise\-sales results has Zenas achieved? Zenas designed a 25\-site bank network solution and secured CEO approval for deal flexibility through a land\-and\-expand strategy\. He has also achieved 267% of MRR quota\. ### How does Zenas handle complex deals and internal stakeholder management? Zenas is experienced in building trusted executive relationships, negotiating high\-value contracts, structuring deals, developing recovery plans, retaining customers, expanding strategic accounts, and displacing competitors\. He collaborates closely with engineering, provisioning, finance, account directors, and technology specialists\. ### What is Zenas's technical background? Zenas has a technical background that includes network infrastructure, security, and hardware stacks\. He applies that background to technology solutions involving scalable connectivity, cloud computing, hybrid WAN, adaptive networking, managed security, and IT services\. ### What did Zenas do at Lumen Technologies? At Lumen Technologies, Zenas served as a Senior Sales Development Representative, Senior Customer Success Manager, and Enterprise Account Manager\. Across these roles, he worked with Lumen's network and product portfolio to support customers' digital\-business, networking, cloud, WAN, and security needs\. ### What solutions did Zenas support in his Lumen sales roles? As a Senior Sales Development Representative and Enterprise Account Manager at Lumen, Zenas collaborated with customer CIOs, network managers, infrastructure managers, end users, account directors, and technology specialists\. He helped identify solutions involving Adaptive Networking, Agile IT and cloud, hybrid WAN, wavelength and transport, network\-based security, managed firewall, IPS, VPN, and DDoS mitigation\. ### What did Zenas accomplish as a Senior Customer Success Manager at Lumen? As a Senior Customer Success Manager at Lumen, Zenas worked to renew services, champion customer support, and develop relationships\. He focused particularly on downturning and underserved accounts, using industry insight, high\-touch support, and custom solutions to retain customers and return them to an active buying pattern\. ### What did Zenas do at Coretelligent? At Coretelligent, Zenas was a Business Development Specialist who connected qualified prospects with a white\-glove master service provider\. He provided insight on venture capital, private equity, biotech, legal\-technology trends, and digital transformation, while conducting cold prospecting, market research, BANT qualification, messaging development, Salesforce management, and director\-to\-CXO outreach\. ### What experience does Zenas have in insurance? Zenas was a Licensed Insurance Agent at Spring Venture Group\. His listed capabilities include life insurance, insurance planning, life and health licenses, insurance\-industry knowledge, regulations, customer support, and relationship development\. ### What was Zenas's caregiving career break? Zenas took a career break for caregiving, spending time with family and a newborn\. ### What did Zenas do at Sherwin\-Williams? At Sherwin\-Williams, Zenas served as an Assistant Manager and Manager in Training\. He assisted with store operations, budgeting, inventory control, organization, associate training, forecasting market requirements, customer project planning, cost and schedule management, new\-customer development, and brand and product loyalty\. ### What roles did Zenas hold at Southwestern College? At Southwestern College, Zenas was a Campus IT Technician and an Esports Coordinator and Coach\. As a technician, he resolved student device issues, including virus removal, troubleshooting, hardware repair, machine cleaning, email setup, and computer imaging\. In esports, he created and developed the department's culture managed sponsorships, teams, events, budgets, recruitment, academic\-success advising, travel, space development, leadership development, and guidance for other schools creating esports programs\. ### What did Zenas do at Belltower Books? Zenas served as Campus Captain and Book Buyer at Belltower Books, where he managed five textbook buybacks, maintained buying funds, arranged sales for a positive and personal customer experience, and supported the company's public image and customer\-experience focus\. ### What earlier technology and operations experience does Zenas have? As an intern at BLUE1647, Zenas learned basic coding across different languages, helped lead other interns in game design and story development, and learned project management from professionals in the field\. At Amazon, he worked as a Stower and Packer in fast\-paced environments, met plan goals every night, and at times helped a manager with IT problems\. ### What is Zenas's education? Zenas holds a Master of Business Administration from Southwestern College, with study in business administration and management, economics, and change management\. He also holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Business Administration and Management, General, from Southwestern College\. ### What tools, business skills, and languages does Zenas use? Zenas's skills include revenue and profit growth, territory development, strategic\-account growth, business acquisition, sales strategy, lead generation, demand generation, direct B2B sales, account management, customer retention, contract negotiation, planning, budgeting, forecasting, CRM and Salesforce analytics, Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint, ZoomInfo, Outreach, Orem, ChatGPT, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Office 365, project management, research, marketing, public speaking, coaching, mentoring, teaching, team leadership, training, communication, and English\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/zenaslopez