Frank Wilkens

Microsoft Alliance Director, Fortira–Canarys | Driving U.S. Expansion in DevOps, GitHub & Microsoft Cloud Modernization. Canarys defines Engineering Certainty for the AI era.

Nashville Metropolitan Area

About

With 20+ years in IT leadership, I drive AI-powered transformation and cloud modernization to deliver measurable business outcomes through the Microsoft ecosystem. I specialize in accelerating AI adoption with Agentic AI, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Copilot Studio—helping organizations unlock productivity and innovation. As an individual contributor, I have a proven track record of exceeding goals in national sales for professional and managed services, leveraging consultative SaaS selling and deep technical expertise to achieve strategic growth. My strengths include Generative AI strategy, Microsoft Fabric integration, Azure DevOps, and secure governance-driven implementations. Passionate about shaping the future of tech consulting, I combine innovation with execution to help businesses harness AI for efficiency, agility, and competitive advantage. consulting and deal closure.

Experience

  • Microsoft Alliance Manager-US at Fortira / Canarys
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    As part of Canarys’ acquisition of Fortira, I lead the Fortira–Canarys Alliance with a focus on accelerating our U.S. go‑to‑market strategy across DevOps, GitHub, and Microsoft Cloud transformation. My role centers on unifying the strengths of both organizations and bringing award‑winning DevOps capabilities to enterprise customers through a tightly aligned Microsoft partnership.

  • KiZAN Technologies (Greater Nashville Area, TN)
    • Regional Sales Manager
      Sep 2022 - Apr 2026 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      National Sales Focus for Professional and Managed Services Offerings within the Retail, Financial Services, Software & Digital Platform. South Enterprise, North East Enterprise Verticals for Microsoft Solutions. Heavy Focus on Employee Engagement utilizing the Viva Suite, Azure Application Modernization, IaaS to PaaS, Data to Azure Synapse and Security.

    • ATU Sales Director- South Region
      Aug 2015 - Sep 2022 · 7 yrs 2 mos

      In my role as the ATU Sales Director at KiZAN Technologies, I provided professional services for Microsoft Solutions, focusing on sales team leadership and strategic road mapping for Cloud Enablement and Digital Transformation. With a strong emphasis on Copilot M365, AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, Fabric and application modernization.

  • Channel Sales Manager at NeoNova Network Services
    Aug 2014 - Aug 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

    NeoNova has put together a suite of best-in-class cloud services and products to help you run your ISP or Business more efficiently, securely, and cost effectively than ever before. All of our cloud services include dozens of critical security features specifically designed to keep your data safe, secure and in your control. Your data belongs to you, and Apps tools enable you to control it, including who you share it with and how you share it. Our data center network provides exceptional security and guarantees reliable access to your data, 24x7x365.25 (that’s right: no rest, even on leap years).

  • Regional Channel Sales Manager at Momentum Telecom
    May 2013 - Jul 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Oversee the growth of Momentums indirect sales channel in the southeastern region of the United States. Momentum provides Hosted VoIP, High Capacity Data and Video to businesses of all sizes.

  • Director of Sales Nashville at zColo/Dolphini Data Center
    Feb 2009 - Apr 2013 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    Zayo Group is a provider of telecom & Internet infrastructure services. We provide our infrastructure services over our regional, metro fiber & fiber to the tower networks that span over 150 markets, including deep fiber in 60 Metro Markets & 30 states plus the District of Columbia. Zayo Group consists of four autonomous business units that target specific sectors of the telecom & Internet infrastructure space. Zayo Bandwidth provides lit fiber solutions for bandwidth intensive customers. Zayo Fiber Solutions provides dark fiber solutions. zColo provides neutral colocation & interconnection services. Zayo Enterprise Networks delivers bandwidth infrastructure solutions designed for enterprise. Brokered Assets of Dolphini Networks to zColo