About

Erich Buerger is a highly experienced eCommerce Strategist/Architect & Senior Technical Business Development Manager at CenturyLink with over 20 years of experience in management roles on many enterprise level e-commerce B2C/B2B/Marketplace engagements for a variety of Retail, Consumer Product, and Digital companies. He has worked directly with top-level management in these organizations to strategize, conceptualize, develop, and deploy their solutions using state of the art e-commerce technologies. Erich's strength and passion are in Web Modernization exercises to further grow his clients' enterprises and leapfrog their respective competitors. At CenturyLink, Erich spearheaded and developed a standard e-Commerce product which included reference architectures, RASICs, Service Management packages, educational sales artifacts, customer-facing marketing and sales artifacts, developed a partner channel eco-system with development partners, hosting partners, and ISVs and SIs. He has worked together with IBM staff and many other consulting firms performing pre-sales, sales, solution architecture, development team interviews and staffing, client relationship management, and project management. Erich has worked with many e-Business clients, including Amazon.com, Borders Books, RitzCamera.com, Target, Mattel, T-Mobile, IBM, PVH, The Children's Place, David's Bridal, Weight Watchers, Sanyo, Toshiba, Harry & David, Avery Dennison, ePuck.com, BoatersWorld.com, StoryBids, RazorReef.com, Kozmo.com, VF Corporation, IHS, Nissan, Playaway, Entrepreneur.com, Warner Chappell, McKesson, and Dick's Sporting Goods. He has extensive experience with several e-Commerce platforms, including IBM WebSphere Commerce, Hybris, Magento, and Oracle Commerce. Erich has performed project sizing exercises and gap analysis to correctly map out project plans and estimate resource needs and requirements to complete the project within required time frames. Erich has a BS in Information and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Irvine. He has worked for Avnet Technology Solutions as a Senior e-Commerce Domain Architect and for CenturyLink Technology Solutions as a Lead Sr. Business Development Manager - Smart Solutions, UCC, Cloud/Migrations, SAP, e-Commerce. Erich has excellent closing skills, is highly motivated for sales, and has an intimate market knowledge. He is driven to meeting sales goals and has a high level of professionalism.