Sales Engineer Manager, AMER Elite Partners

• Oct 2022 - Present

Cloud Channel Solutions Engineers Team Lead

• Oct 2021 - Oct 2022

Global Azure Lead Solutions Engineer, Cloud Channels

• Mar 2021 - Nov 2021

Leads development of technical enablement, guidance, and collaboration around Azure-specific initiatives for strategic partners and sales teams. Technical team lead for go-to-market efforts around Azure-focused cloud-native and serverless technologies for cross-functional teams (sales, product, product marketing) across AppDynamics and Cisco.Led technical efforts from the AppDynamics side for partnership with Microsoft around making AppDynamics available within Azure Spring Cloud. Show less

Senior Solutions Engineer - Cloud Service Providers

• Jun 2020 - Mar 2021

Leads development of technical enablement, guidance, and collaboration around cloud-specific initiatives for strategic partners and sales teams. Efforts include curation of workshop content pertaining to AWS serverless monitoring with AppDynamics. Supports efforts around cloud-native and serverless technologies for cross-functional teams (sales, product, product marketing) across AppDynamics and Cisco. Assists with GTM activities around monitoring cloud-native technologies with AppDynamics and evangelizing cloud-native monitoring with AppDynamics at industry and partner events. Show less

Demo Architect

• Jul 2018 - Jun 2020

Supported 200+ sales engineers worldwide through maintaining and enhancing a common demo platform for showcasing product features and customer scenarios.Led efforts in partnering with marketing and events organizations in the company to curate and develop relevant and engaging content. Architected innovative and engaging art-of-the-possible demo assets for use throughout the company (including demo applications, video recordings, and documentation).Supported marketing and events organizations through presence at trade shows and events, showcasing solutions and relevant demo scenarios. Show less

Demo Architect

• Aug 2012 - Jul 2018

Supported over 150 sales consultants and solution engineers by building out reusable/configurable assets and templates including art-of-the-possible demos, integration prototypes, and product extensions. Contributed to high profile opportunities as the subject matter expert around integration and extension capabilities. Bolstered product management vision for innovation by architecting and building Oracle Service Cloud demos centered around innovation areas such as robotics and IoT. Primary demo architect for Art of the Possible demo showcasing product capabilities, including building multiple integrations between Slack and Oracle Service Cloud. Lead demo architect in buildout of Foundational Demo used by North American solutions consultants as a first-contact demo to new prospects. Collaborated with solution engineers and product management in multiple product pillars and global regions during buildout of integrated demos for the Communications and Utilities sectors. Prototyped out integrations between Oracle Service Cloud and Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing (CC&B) for use in Utilities vertical demo. Lead demo architect for building connected car demo to showcase bidirectional integrations between Oracle Service Cloud and Oracle Internet of Things Cloud Service that was delivered at Oracle OpenWorld and GM Geek Week. Proved out design patterns for integrating Oracle's CX suite of SaaS applications into the Pepper robot. Integrations include knowledge management, policy automation, configure/price/quote, marketing, and commerce. Delivered integration-focused demos to customers at onsite meetings and marketing events to facilitate discovery and drive conversation around how product capabilities can be utilized to solve challenges. Show less

Senior .NET Developer

• Nov 2010 - Aug 2012

Responsible for all aspects of software development life cycle, including estimation and deployment of projects. Lead developer on web site redesign for Chip Ganassi racing websites. Integrated proprietary content management system software into website. Primary developer responsible for updates and feature enhancements to PHP-based social network software. Lead developer on proprietary web-based application to retrieve data from an external site and re-publish data to multiple social networks. Lead developer and architect on n-tier MRP software project spanning multiple platforms. Responsibilities include creation of quality assurance testing software for hand-held scanner and desktop as well as development of web-based portal. Show less

Webmaster / Senior .NET Developer

• Aug 2006 - Oct 2010

Responsible for maintenance, development, and enhancement of multiple major ASP.NET sites (VB.NET and C#) with traffic up to 20,000 page views per day. Responsible for all Microsoft SQL Server database development and maintenance. Responsible for development and maintenance on in-house custom web and desktop applications (written in C# and VB.NET). Lead developer involved in the redesign and restructuring of auction site and auction site administrative area from VB.NET and ASP.NET v1.1 to C# and ASP.NET 2.0, resulting in a 100% increase on auction site revenue over the previous year. Developed .NET 3.5 application suite to retrieve web analytics data via RESTful API and generate custom reports to be sent to executive staff on a weekly basis. Established event result reporting for online auction website by creating a Windows Service written in C# to render reports generated by SQL Server 2005 Report Services to PDF format and distribute to staff. Show less

Webmaster

• Aug 2005 - Aug 2006

Responsible for website / software side of IT consulting firm. Worked directly with the CEO of the company in providing website consultation to clients in the Southern Illinois area. Responsible for establishment of new web site clients using PHP and MySQL as well as consultation throughout the entire web site development phase. Served as the primary point of contact for all web and software related issues. Reduced company overhead by porting web applications from ColdFusion and Microsoft Access to PHP and MySQL. Show less

Programmer

• May 2002 - Sep 2004

Created Velocity-based Java application to email invoices to customers and clients in HTML or text format. Implemented system to track member requests for letters of recommendation and press releases as well as actions taken on these requests. Optimized a Perl program that generates web pages for each individual chapter by breaking out static HTML content into a pre-built template. Created Velocity-based Java application to email invoices to customers and clients in HTML or text format. Implemented system to track member requests for letters of recommendation and press releases as well as actions taken on these requests. Optimized a Perl program that generates web pages for each individual chapter by breaking out static HTML content into a pre-built template.