David Spurlock
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Experience

A career built around consequential customer decisions.

Five roles trace a consistent through-line: understand the real need, translate complex information, align the people involved, and carry the work through to a clear next step.

Professional chronology

Commercial range with a technical center of gravity.

This is the concise public chronology. Related Work stories explain selected decisions and operating lessons without reproducing every résumé bullet.

  1. Hire Love

    Account Executive

    Recruiting services · Denver, Colorado

    Applied experience
    • Sold recruiting services to founders and hiring leaders through a consultative, relationship-driven process.
    • Built pipeline through targeted outreach and owned discovery, proposals, fee discussions, and delivery handoff.
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  2. GoDaddy

    Hosting Sales & Support

    B2B/B2C hosting and web services · Gilbert, Arizona

    Applied experience
    • Advised small-business customers on domains, hosting, SSL, backup, and website-security products.
    • Translated technical issues into clear options and coordinated customer escalations across support and engineering.
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  3. Land Advisors Organization

    Land Broker

    Land advisory and brokerage · Scottsdale, Arizona

    Applied experience
    • Advised developers and investors on Arizona land acquisition, feasibility, entitlement, pricing, and market positioning.
    • Supported transaction decisions through site analysis, due diligence, relationship development, and regulatory coordination.
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  4. Russ Lyon Sotheby's International Realty

    Sales Associate

    Residential real estate · Scottsdale, Arizona

    Applied experience
    • Managed referral-led residential transactions from valuation and listing strategy through negotiation and close.
    • Used market-backed pricing, targeted marketing, proactive communication, and issue resolution to support clients through the transaction process.
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  5. Pontrelli Fountain Company, LLC

    Managing Partner

    Specialty-products entrepreneurship · Gilbert, Arizona

    Applied experience
    • Co-led a specialty-products business spanning sales, product development, digital marketing, supply chain, and logistics.
    • Used customer and trade-show feedback to inform product development, market expansion, and operating decisions.
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Capability through-line

Sales judgment, customer context, and technical fluency.

The roles changed, but the operating pattern stayed consistent: discover carefully, communicate clearly, and coordinate the work that moves a decision forward.

Commercial execution

  • Full-cycle B2B sales
  • Outbound prospecting
  • Consultative discovery
  • Proposals and negotiation

Customer strategy

  • Technical troubleshooting
  • Account development
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Executive communication

Technical fluency

  • Web hosting and infrastructure
  • Cybersecurity and cloud
  • AI and product training
  • Technical-to-business translation

Education & selected training

Business education with product and security depth.

Credential status stays explicit. The CEH was earned in 2022 and expired in 2025; it is not presented as current.

  • Graduate degree

    MBA, AI & Marketing

    Arizona State University · 2025

    Degree
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Marketing
    • Business strategy

  • Undergraduate degree

    B.S. Business Entrepreneurship

    Arizona State University · 2018

    Degree
    • Business fundamentals
    • Entrepreneurship

  • Boot camp completion

    Cybersecurity Boot Camp

    Arizona State University · 2020

    Completed
    • Security fundamentals
    • Technical labs

  • Course completion

    Product Management for Engineers

    Cornell University · 2021

    Completed
    • Product discovery
    • Stakeholder communication

  • Course completion

    Splunk 7.x Fundamentals Part 1

    Splunk · 2020

    Completed
    • Log-search fundamentals
    • Security operations concepts

  • Course completion

    Web Application Hacking and Security

    EC-Council · 2022

    Completed
    • Web-security concepts
    • Security testing concepts

  • Certification

    Certified Ethical Hacker

    EC-Council · Earned 2022 · expired 2025

    Expired
    • Ethical-hacking concepts
    • Security fundamentals

Résumé

A concise record for hiring conversations.

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