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Mike Hereid

Customer Success & Strategic Solutions Leader

Summary

Customer success leader with proven experience driving retention, expansion, and executive engagement across enterprise technology and platform environments. Delivered $61M+ in ARR growth through strategic customer engagement, proactive adoption planning, and AI/ML enablement at scale. Expert in translating complex customer needs into actionable strategies that drive measurable business outcomes and long-term partnerships.

Experience

Senior Customer Solutions Manager

Amazon Web Services

August 2022 – Present · San Diego, CA

Leading strategic problem solving across $160M ARR portfolio, translating data-driven insights into actionable recommendations for EdTech and Government technology solutions.

  • Led strategic problem solving across $160M ARR portfolio, structuring ambiguous market opportunities and translating data-driven insights into actionable recommendations that generated $3.5M+ in annual recurring revenue
  • Developed executive-ready narratives synthesizing complex performance data, market dynamics, and customer signals into compelling strategic stories, driving 419% increase in ARR across largest state/local government customer
  • Partnered across functions (PM, Sales, BD, Engineering) to identify customer pain points in EdTech sector, driving $540K ARR across AI agent implementation for 700+ platform APIs serving 35M users
  • Founded CSM Neural Networks initiative addressing AI adoption gaps across 10+ opportunities, creating strategic framework and delivery playbook to accelerate pipeline conversion
  • Executed competitive analysis enabling major customer migration from competing platform to AWS Bedrock ($1.5M ARR), achieving 25–35% cost reduction and 15–20% accuracy improvement
  • Led delivery of enterprise accessibility compliance solution for LMS serving 35M+ users across 2,500+ higher education institutions ($185K ARR)
  • Managed Generative AI Innovation Center engagement reducing AI-generated skills taxonomy manual change rate from 37% to <10%, enabling $300K ARR skills alignment platform launch
  • Delivered AI-powered LMS migration framework reducing average timeline from 90 to 30 days for 200+ institutions ($500K ARR)
  • Led custom AI content moderation solution for K-12 platform serving 3M+ students using SageMaker-based language detection ($300K ARR)
  • Oversaw development of AI observability system for law enforcement records management platform ($180K ARR)
  • Orchestrated largest state/local government customer through six migration waves, generating 419% ARR increase and expanding service adoption by 42% YoY

Managing Director, Client Engagement

University of California, San Diego

August 2019 – August 2022 · San Diego, CA

Developed and launched integrated operations center supporting 40,000+ employees, leading cross-functional teams through strategic transformation and system implementation.

  • Developed and launched integrated HR/Payroll operations center supporting 40,000+ employees, establishing governance frameworks and tactical units for campus-wide program delivery
  • Led 80+ cross-functional team members through strategic transformation and system implementation, consulting with campus and departmental leaders to analyze enterprise-level issues
  • Achieved Six Sigma Black Belt certification implementing process improvements to pay distribution functions, reducing paper check generation by 61% and delivering $496K+ in annualized savings

Manager

Huron Consulting Group

February 2011 – August 2019 · Various

Led program-wide data conversion and testing execution for large-scale ERP implementations, managing cross-functional teams through complex enterprise system transformations.

  • Led program-wide data conversion for ERP implementation across 15 campuses and 200,000+ employees, managing 25 techno-functional resources through four conversion waves and production cutover
  • Directed testing execution and validation for 56,000-employee ERP system implementation, managing cross-functional team of 75 employees across technical and functional capabilities
  • Led future-state business process design team responsible for redesigning 28 system processes, conducting deep-dive sessions with client stakeholders and technical contractors

Skills & Expertise

Customer Success

  • Enterprise Customer Success
  • Executive Business Reviews
  • Customer Health & Adoption
  • Retention & Expansion
  • Strategic Account Planning

Technical

  • AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda)
  • AI/ML Enablement
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Platform Strategy
  • Technical Discovery

Domain

  • EdTech / Higher Education
  • State & Local Government
  • K-12 Education
  • Enterprise SaaS
  • Regulated Industries

Leadership

  • Team Leadership (80+ members)
  • Cross-Functional Alignment
  • Executive Engagement
  • Change Management
  • Six Sigma Black Belt

Education

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

Washington University in St. Louis

2009

Concentrations: Finance, Economics & Strategy, Entrepreneurship

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect AssociateAWS Machine Learning AssociateSix Sigma Black BeltExecutive Acumen (GenAI, FinOps)