CEO MONTHLY / GLOBAL CEO EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2021 37 , Best IT Consulting Business Leader (Mid-Atlantic USA): Jacob Plummer The Plummer Group is a certified minority and service-disabled veteran owned small business. It provides its clients with the most innovative solutions possible, through unique and technical methods. Offering integrity, respect, and professionalism, it takes over 25 years of experience to deliver exceptional customer service and quality assurance. CEO and Founder, Jacob Plummer tells us more about his journey. Founded in 2019 in Virginia, USA, The Plummer Group offers technology solutions to federal and commercial sectors through Enterprise Resource Planning and Test Automation. It is focused on meeting the needs of the military industry through well designed technological systems. As an Enterprise Technology Consulting firm, The Plummer Group provides technology lifecycle support from blueprint and design through to development and implementation, deployment, and sustainment to customers in both the private and public marketplace. Its core services are technology solutions, logistics and training from functional and technical crossindustry experts. With an expert background, The Plummer Group emits a powerful and comprehensive knowledge that its clients can trust. Its team of experts use the latest technologies to help clients successfully achieve their organizational goals and visions. These solutions cover system design, integration, and configuration management. It offers full lifecycle SAP support as well as acceptance, functional, and regression testing. The Group also provides logistics and sourcing through supply chain management, temporary staffing services and operational support across warehouse May21036 management systems, inventory management, and its sourcing and procurement. Lastly, it works with its clients to introduce training and assessment strategies, instructional system design, curriculum and materials development, web-based learning development and delivery and learning management systems. Founder and CEO, Jacob Plummer brings with him nearly three decades of experience and expertise in his fields. He currently works for IBM/ IT Partners, Inc. on a NAVY ERP project in the defence sector. There, he serves as an ERP Solutions Expert and is responsible for design and defect resolutions, sustainment support, and enhancement developments. As a disabled veteran, Jacob believes in serving his country and supporting its war fighters through outstanding program delivery that meets the needs of a diverse customer base and by providing exceptional employment opportunities. He has worked with a number of large names across different sectors such as Northrop Grumman, Deloitte Consulting, and Nestle Purina Petcare. Having proudly served in the United States Army as an Automated Logistics Specialist, Jacob demonstrated leadership in Logistics Management, Procurement, Inventory Management, and Strategic and Operational support. Academically, Jacob has an MA in Information Technology Project Management and a BA in Technical Management. This means that he has the ability to guide all of his clients through their projects with a rich knowledge and passion for the industry. Jacob’s leadership style is based on influence. “Success is largely dependent on the ability to manage relationships,” he explains. “Knowing how to engage and influence people on various levels in the organization and manage teams based on strengths versus weaknesses provides obvious advantages. I like stability and order, but I also employ a diplomatic and relationship-oriented approach to leading my teams. It’s important to me that everyone in my organization feels that they can bring their authentic self to work every day. I want to create a space where my pioneers and drivers can feel free to drive innovative solutions. “At The Plummer Group, we use a combination of Marketing and CRM tools to develop a capture strategy that allow us to identify organizations where our services can provide value to their current operations,” Jacob continues. “Outsourced IT and logistics solutions are quickly becoming a vital part of today’s competitive business environment. Major trends affecting business spending include virtual work environments, the Cloud, social media, mobility, and the proliferation of data storage and security needs”. For small and mid-sized businesses, as well as government agencies, it is important to have especially web-based systems that can handle every task that they must carry out. This can’t always be done with their internal IT departments, and The Plummer Group is here to help. Throughout the pandemic and various lockdowns, organizations have been forced to adapt to working remotely. IT systems need to be adaptable, flexible, and reliable for this to not be a detrimental situation for all kinds of businesses. Cybersecurity is needed now more than ever, and it has become a booming market. For the future, The Plummer Group will further develop a comprehensive marketing plan in order to generate sales on a local, regional, and even national level for its services. A multipronged marketing strategy will help to achieve strong brand recognition. This goal will be achieved through a combination of traditional and internet-based initiatives. It will also focus on establishing and maintaining strong customer relations, while leveraging their many existing industry contacts in the government, military, IT, and logistics fields. Contact: Jacob Plummer Web Address: www.theplummergroup.com
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