Experience

SingleStore

• United States
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Principal Evangelist

  • Apr 2023 - Present

  Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 I spend most of my days working on content or experiences for our customers, focusing on functional demos, webinars, videos, and speaking sessions at conferences. All day, every day, I'm thinking about AI, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and ways to make them effective in various industry segments. SingleStoreDB is a database built for this AI first world. I work closely with our CMO and broader PLG team to find ways to improve our marketing workflows… Show more 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 I spend most of my days working on content or experiences for our customers, focusing on functional demos, webinars, videos, and speaking sessions at conferences. All day, every day, I'm thinking about AI, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and ways to make them effective in various industry segments. SingleStoreDB is a database built for this AI first world. I work closely with our CMO and broader PLG team to find ways to improve our marketing workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and also how we can best implement Generative AI in our PLG processes. Show less



NVIDIA

• United States
• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Nov 2021 - Mar 2023

  Columbus, Ohio, United States As a Senior TME covering DOCA and BlueField DPUs, I focused on the day 2 experience of our product for our customers. I worked with engineering, marketing, sales, partner companies, as well as customers to ensure that the product we designed met the expectations of our customers. My primary focus was on deployment methodology, management and health reports, as well as multiple operating system support for the BlueField Product Suite. I worked closely with our partners to ensure… Show more As a Senior TME covering DOCA and BlueField DPUs, I focused on the day 2 experience of our product for our customers. I worked with engineering, marketing, sales, partner companies, as well as customers to ensure that the product we designed met the expectations of our customers. My primary focus was on deployment methodology, management and health reports, as well as multiple operating system support for the BlueField Product Suite. I worked closely with our partners to ensure that solutions they built using our product were easy to demo and use. Key Projects: - Project Monterey (with VMware) - A complete re-imagination of VMware Cloud Foundation Architecture using NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPUs. I lead the way to have operational demos that enabled customers to get hands on with Project Monterey. - NVIDIA SNAP Demos - Demonstrations of various ways to use SNAP to solve problems, by presenting a remote NVMe as if it were a local NVMe device. Show less



Druva

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Technical Marketing Manager

  • Aug 2021 - Oct 2021

  Columbus, Ohio, United States Worked with product teams to curate content and collateral for Phoenix and CloudRanger product lines. Presented on webinars with PMM counterparts. Was the pipeline between customers, PM, and engineering. Created compelling demo videos, blog posts, and other assets to accompany product and feature releases.



Nutanix

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Dec 2019 - Aug 2021

  Columbus, Ohio, United States Create and Manage technical content and Test Drive experiences for Nutanix Objects and Nutanix Mine products. Work closely with internal stakeholders such as Engineering Leadership, Engineering/QA, Product Management, Marketing, and Sales Engineering, as well as external partners, analysts, and customers to ensure marketing and training tools were available for Objects and Mine. Key Projects: - Nutanix Test Drive - A highly immersive Test Drive experience for most of Nutanix's… Show more Create and Manage technical content and Test Drive experiences for Nutanix Objects and Nutanix Mine products. Work closely with internal stakeholders such as Engineering Leadership, Engineering/QA, Product Management, Marketing, and Sales Engineering, as well as external partners, analysts, and customers to ensure marketing and training tools were available for Objects and Mine. Key Projects: - Nutanix Test Drive - A highly immersive Test Drive experience for most of Nutanix's enterprise software products. Greatly increased customer engagement with 10's of thousands of test drives taken each year. Helped implement automation through Python and Calm to enable deployment and demos for many Nutanix products. - TME Tech Bytes (YouTube) - Worked closely with another team member to develop the TME Tech Bytes video series process and branding. Developed templates for videos with Nutanix Video team and helped create extensive documentation and tracking for production of the videos in our homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. - Nutanix Bible - Took over and re-designed The Nutanix Bible after the original author moved on from Nutanix. The Nutanix Bible has well over 10k views per month. The re-design, which launches June 2021, should greatly speed up access to relevant information, increase viewer retention, and make it easier for people to contribute future content.

• Senior System Engineer

  • May 2015 - Dec 2019

  Columbus, Ohio, United States - Apply architecture experience to ask the hard questions of business owners and technologists to ensure proper design requirements are documented and met - Design reliable and highly performant Nutanix Clusters to meet technical and business requirements, including budget - Attends trainings and bootcamps including: Storage Xperts, vBCA Bootcamp, NPX Bootcamp, Hackathons - Critical Deal Reviewer within SLED, supporting other SEs to ensure nothing is missed on large deals



Carenection

• Lead Architect

  • May 2014 - May 2015

  Columbus, Ohio, United States - Built a highly available and scalable Tele-Video Platform for Remote Video Interpretation Company while maintaining service to legacy customers on proprietary video conferencing solutions. - Helped split IT department into separate company (Carenection) to leverage powerful private healthcare network we built to service more than just tele-interpretation for health care customers. - Lead small group to develop next-generation video platform, utilizing WebRTC, Auto-Scaling… Show more - Built a highly available and scalable Tele-Video Platform for Remote Video Interpretation Company while maintaining service to legacy customers on proprietary video conferencing solutions. - Helped split IT department into separate company (Carenection) to leverage powerful private healthcare network we built to service more than just tele-interpretation for health care customers. - Lead small group to develop next-generation video platform, utilizing WebRTC, Auto-Scaling Containers, Customer Call Routing and Queuing (RabbitMQ), etc. to replace the proprietary Polycom and Cisco Solutions implemented through Microsoft Lync.

• Virtualization Engineer

  • Oct 2012 - May 2014

  Columbus, Ohio, United States - Implemented Nutanix to simplify 3-tier virtualization platform (Early Nutanix Customer) - Deployed Polycom Virtual RMX (on Nutanix) to perform live video transcoding, connecting various video platforms over a singular video interface designed for Healthcare Provider use - Involved in troubleshooting hundreds of different hospital network environments, specifically highly noisy WiFi installs, for video and audio codec performance issues and firewall and network… Show more - Implemented Nutanix to simplify 3-tier virtualization platform (Early Nutanix Customer) - Deployed Polycom Virtual RMX (on Nutanix) to perform live video transcoding, connecting various video platforms over a singular video interface designed for Healthcare Provider use - Involved in troubleshooting hundreds of different hospital network environments, specifically highly noisy WiFi installs, for video and audio codec performance issues and firewall and network misconfiguration - Architected dual data centers to ensure platform resilience and performance



BayCare HomeCare, Inc.

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Help Desk Analyst

  • May 2010 - Sep 2012

  Clearwater, Florida, United States