Joshua Blankenship

Examiner
DISC Type : cs

Director, Infrastructure Platform Services at Avery Dennison

Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Overview

Joshua is a results-driven technology leader with 21 years of experience in infrastructure and security technologies. As Director at Avery Dennison, he leads teams in securing and optimizing business-critical systems across numerous data centers and cloud services. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Central Arkansas.

He strategically supports multiple Global Data Centers and more than 135 global production facilities.

Personality Overview

Tough To Convince

Late Adopter

Process Oriented

They tend to be clear about their needs and limitations and are unlikely to promise too much.  They do not like taking risks at all and go for proven options in the end. Being observant comes to them naturally.

Topics They Care About

Global Infrastructure
Manages multiple enterprise data centers, over 135 remote production facilities, and various cloud-hosted infrastructures on a global scale.
Enterprise Security
A core competency is leading highly-skilled technical teams with a focus on securing business-critical systems.
IT Cost Optimization
His role emphasizes optimizing costs while ensuring the high performance and availability of essential systems.

Media Appearances

Joshua has no verified media appearances

Work History

3-2025
Director, Infrastructure Platform Services at Avery Dennison
2-2021 - 3-2025
Director - Infrastructure and Business Systems at Vestcom
2-2012 - 2-2021
Manager - IT Infrastructure at Vestcom
1-2004 - 2-2012
Network Infrastructure Administrator at Vestcom
6-2002 - 1-2004
IT Engineer at Defiance Metal Products

Education

1998 - 2002
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from University of Central Arkansas

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Exp : 23 Location : Little Rock, Arkansas, United States Job Level : Mid-senior Designation : Director, Infrastructure Platform Services at Avery Dennison
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Insights For Selling To Joshua

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • First of all, focus on building their confidence by sharing examples, case studies etc.
  • Be firm in your communication and stay in control
  • Spend time addressing concerns around risk and change, they will have them even if they don't express them

DONT's

  • Don't be very accepting if that is your natural style, stay firm
  • Don't rely on relationship building even if they act pleasantly
  • Avoid getting into storytelling mode, especially when they ask specific questions

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Joshua is

  • Adoption by others is very important to them, followed by confidence in ROI.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Joshua

  • Often, they don't say no, or keep going about it in circles.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Joshua move?

  • They don't like to hasten, so their speed of decision-making may be slow.
  • Can Joshua take some risk or not?

  • They have little willingness to take risks, and prefer making calculated decisions.

You And Joshua

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