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Portworx by Pure Storage is considered by many industry analysts as the "Gold Standard" for data management in Kubernetes and it has been a privilege, so far, to represent Pure Storage in this ever evolving IT landscape. Since joining Portworx, or better known as Pure Storage's Cloud Native Business Unit, I have had the pleasure of working cross-functionally from my native Pre-Sales Solution Archtect role to Marketing, Partner Alliances, and Channel enablement, bringing a unique field based perspective to these conversations.- Authored and published a joint Technical Whitepaper with AWS to address running CI/CD at scale, The whitepaper passed and addressed the covered pillars of Amazon's Well Architected Design review process and has become a staple piece of collateral for the AWS/Portworx relationship- Collaborated on Pure Validated Designs for VMware Tanzu, Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Arc data services- Created several demo videos on my Youtube channel- Performed product and design validations with various Alliance partners- Assisted in creating the refreshed "Portworx Enterprise Professional" Exam and received a Charter memember Certification- Worked with other colleagues around the globe to help support their campaigns at global enterprises- Exceeded first year plan and qualified for Pure's Performer Club 2021Here's to the great people I work with and hopefully continued success at Pure Storage! Cheers!

I founded this company in 2003 out of my house and have worked tirelessly for the last 14 years to grow it into something amazing. We have made the jump from Break-Fix to Managed Services and on to Private/Public/Hybrid Cloud solutions. Now we are on the cutting edge of Technology Providers for the SME market by offering a comprehensive IT as a Service offering that fits companies from 20 to 200+ employees.• Founded company in 2003 • Evolved the company’s service offerings from Break-Fix to IT as a Service• Grew Recurring Revenue to over 70% of total revenue• Grew Revenue from zero to over 3.5m/year• Built a team of highly skilled engineers to service our customers • Designed, implemented and managed a multi-tenant cloud hosting environment• Designed and implemented network topologies to meet HIPAA, HITECH, SOX, GLBA and other regulatory requirements.• Work closely with our customers to ensure our service and product offerings meet the demanding needs of their businesses• Extensive experience working with technologies from: Cisco, VMware, Dell, EMC, NetApp, Fortinet, Meraki, Citrix, and more• The IT Company was voted "Best IT Company" in Knoxville's City View Magazine for 2016• Recognized as a member of CRN Magazine's NextGen 250 IT companies in 2014

My role on the Global Systems Services Team as a P3 engineer to ensure architectures delivered by the Global Systems Sizing team adhere to EMC's best-practices for all platforms. As well, I will assist with consulting other EMC System Engineers with solution sizing delivery to their customer-base. Lastly, I'll help to drive new toolsets that will allow the field as well as GBS the ability to offer the highest quality in service to our customer base. My focus will be cross-platforms as well as specific application stacks such as the Epic healthcare EMR solution with EMC technology.

My role on the Presales Shared Services Team as a P3 engineer to ensure architectures delivered by the Presales Shared Services Sizing team adhere to Dell EMC's best-practices for all platforms. As well, I will assist with consulting other Dell EMC System Engineers with solution sizing delivery to their customer-base. Lastly, I'll help to drive new toolsets that will allow the field as well as PSS the ability to offer the highest quality in service to our customer base. My focus will be cross-platforms as well as specific application stacks such as the Epic healthcare EMR solution with EMC technology.

San Jose,Ca

Manages retail sales and service function. The primary goal is to serve the customers' total financial service needs resulting in greater market share, wallet share and profitability. This is accomplished by creating a vital sales and service organization, promoting teamwork with partners and other corporate departments. Creates, trains and coaches a successful sales team through the development of staff as a competitive advantage. Responsible for effective staff salary administration and rewards. Develops and administers budgets, business development goals and objectives, staffing models, schedules and performance standards. Guidelines: The store manager level is determined by valuing a number of key store measurements. This position requires compliance with the S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 and all related regulations. Ongoing employment is contingent upon meeting all such requirements, including acceptable background investigation results.

Door to Door sales of Kirby Vacuum Systems* Named Top Sales Person in the Knoxville area in 1995 and 1996* Named Top Field Sales Trainer in the East Tennessee Region in 1997

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services

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Activities and Societies: Arts and Communication College Athletics Department President - Director of the University Athletics Department

B.S., Electrical Engineering

Semester Abroad Program: Vesalius University in Brussels, Belgium. January - May, 2000

Master Of Music, Jazz Studies

Ba Music Education, Music Education