
Matt Putnam
Solutions Consultant
Role
Consultant for Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementations.
Hometown
Greenville, SC
Prior Life
BA in Spanish from Wofford College (Spartanburg, SC), 1995-2000 Datastream Systems (Tech Support, Inside Sales, Project Mgmt), 2001-2003 SCS (Project and Account Manager in Food Service Technology company), 2004-2006 CMT (Systems Development Manager)
Personal Philosophy
Enjoy your work. That will show in your work allowing others to enjoy working with you.
What do you like to do outside of work?
Cycling and woodworking
Where in your background was your biggest learning experience?
Datastream – being surrounded by people learning the ropes of a growing IT company, CMT – being responsible for all hardware, software, and network infrastructure.
What's your Favorite Thing about Working at Customer Effective?
Working with people with similar interests and similar job descriptions. You can easily find a solution among the co-workers here because chances are someone has been in the same boat.
If you had 30 seconds to tell a prospect about why they should choose Customer Effective for their Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementation, what would you say?
Customer Effective focuses on MS CRM and only MS CRM. Our breadth and depth of projects in this focused field makes us the leader in CRM implementations.
How does the use of Microsoft Dynamics CRM improve your own performance?
Having the information about accounts, projects, contacts at my fingertips is key in keeping on track and all Customer Effective systems are in CRM providing a single environment for input and extraction of data.
Why do you love working at Customer Effective?
I love working at CEI because of the variety of projects it offers in a focused industry. I also enjoy the co-workers and atmosphere (both professional and IT-casual) of CEI.





