Principal Architect/Field CTO

• Jan 2022 - Present

In this role I am a senior level, technical thought leader within the Global Presales organization. I engage with customers, partners, sales, and product teams at a global level to provide technical leadership for the most complex strategic pursuits and sales opportunities across many technology domains and business industries.I strive to hold the coveted title of Trusted Advisor with our customers and their stakeholders. I am very comfortable presenting to customer IT and C-suite executives, discussing process with business managers, working with application and cloud ops teams on solution architectures, and with various systems admins designing operating models and integrations with existing applications. Show less

Solutions Advisor | Sales Engineering

• Aug 2021 - Jan 2022

Panzura is the fastest multi-cloud, Global File System on the planet. Panzura enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations globally at massive scale. As a Solutions Advisor, I work with our Solution Architects and our Enterprise customers and prospects to fully understand both the technical and business requirements, develop technically sound solutions, and validate those solutions with our customers.

Advisory Systems Engineer

• Sep 2017 - Aug 2021

As a Presales Systems Engineer, I am responsible for consulting with customers and designing solutions based on Dell EMC's hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) portfolio which includes VxRail and PowerFlex systems. My responsibilities include understanding and gathering customer requirements, designing the right solutions to help meet and exceed customer's business needs, and ensuring those solutions advance customer success in their deployments. As a Presales Systems Engineer, I am responsible for consulting with customers and designing solutions based on Dell EMC's hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) portfolio which includes VxRail and PowerFlex systems. My responsibilities include understanding and gathering customer requirements, designing the right solutions to help meet and exceed customer's business needs, and ensuring those solutions advance customer success in their deployments.

Senior Systems Engineer

• Jun 2016 - Aug 2017

As a Presales Systems Engineer, I am responsible for consulting with customers and designing solutions based on Dell EMC's high end, mid-range and software defined enterprise storage portfolio. My responsibilities include understanding and gathering customer requirements, designing the right solutions to help meet and exceed customer's business needs, and ensuring those solutions advance customer success in their deployments. As a Presales Systems Engineer, I am responsible for consulting with customers and designing solutions based on Dell EMC's high end, mid-range and software defined enterprise storage portfolio. My responsibilities include understanding and gathering customer requirements, designing the right solutions to help meet and exceed customer's business needs, and ensuring those solutions advance customer success in their deployments.

Solutions Architect

• May 2015 - Jun 2016

As a Solutions Architect at Dell I am a presales quota carrying Sales Engineer focused on driving the sale of the Dell Enterprise portfolio (with focus on storage, networking, servers and both converged and hyper-converged system solutions) along with having a deep understanding of virtual and software-defined technologies. I work with account SE’s to evangelize, propose and architect advanced solution configurations as part of the 'eco-system' around the Dell Enterprise portfolio offering.

System Consultant

• Apr 2013 - May 2015

Responsible for Dell’s Enterprise business to new and existing customers.

Sr. IT Manager

• Feb 2009 - Mar 2013

Data Architect

• Mar 2008 - Feb 2009

Sr. SQL DBA

• Sep 2006 - Mar 2008

Lead SQL DBA (Carlson Account)

• Sep 2005 - Sep 2006

Sr. SQL DBA

• Apr 2004 - Sep 2005

SQL DBA

• Dec 2001 - Apr 2004

Help Desk

• 1998 - 2000