Doing the same thing as before except helping out our MSP/MSSP, VAR, and Channel partners with learning and selling Tailscale!

Part of the growing Sales and Solutions Engineering organization here at Tailscale. Helping customers manage secure access to their infrastructure no matter where it lives.When you need a robust L3 programmable network overlay that's secure by default. Then you need to use Tailscale.

Summary of my time at Teleport:- 4th SE hired (post-Series A round with around 50ish employees)- Built out the Partnership processes/documentation and more for our new Channel Partners program.- Did technical enablement for partners, help onboard partners, etc.- Was working on partner accreditation/certification (built the test and was getting ready to launch it)- Supported both Mid-Market and Enterprise AE's and accounts to demonstrate and sell Teleport- Did numerous webinars both internal and with 3rd party companies on behalf of Teleport. Topics included: IaM, DevOps, DevSecOps, Certificates, Cloud Security, etc- Spoke at different industry conferences (All Things Open, CIVO Navigate)- Wrote technical blog articles for both Teleport and partners- Built internal Sales Engineering processes for onboarding new SE's to the org- Heavily involved in our OSS project via GitHub issues, assisting community users, and more.- Mentored and helped with Teleporters (both on the SE side and other divisions) with learning more about Teleport- Probably more. It's a startup life. You do all the things. :)Old:Rearrangement of internal titles and such. Still doing SE work for customers and solving problems with INIA (Identity-Native Infrastructure Access) with Teleport.Also working with our awesome Partners to help them implement and sell Teleport to their customers.

Doing what I love - helping solve access problems for developers, SRE's, engineers, and more! Now with more partner love :)

What I really do:- Engage with companies and teams that are wanting better insight and visibility into their workloads. Be it K8s, SSH, Databases, etc. I help them understand how Teleport can really help them achieve compliance and have better visibility.- Work with customers in POV's. Troubleshoot issues as they come up in the pre-sales cycle. - Assist our awesome Sales team in closing deals and making sure that all the technical questions that a customer might have been answered properly.- Submit issues and work with our dev and product teams to make Teleport a better product.- Speak at conferences, both virtual and in-person.- And more! :)Marketing blurb:Teleport is the first identity-native infrastructure access platform for engineers and machines. By replacing insecure secrets with true identity, Teleport delivers phishing-proof zero trust for every engineer and service connected to your global infrastructure. The open source Teleport Access Platform provides a frictionless developer experience and a single source of truth for infrastructure access.

Pre-sales and Architecting DevOps/DevSecOps solutions with our client base around some of the following technology stacks:* Red Hat - Cloud Native stack including: OpenShift, Ansible Automation, 3scale, etc.* HashiCorp - Terraform, Vault, Consul, etc.* Atlassian - JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence, JIRA Service Desk, JIRA Data Center, BitBucket* Containerization - Docker, Kubernetes - Red Hat OpenShift primarily.* Configuration Management/Automation - Ansible Automation primarily, Puppet, Chef* AWS, GCP, Azure - Mainly AWS and GCP-related work* Culture and DevOps AssessmentsAnd more!Involved in POC's, workshops, technical blogs and podcasts, assessments, scoping out architectural requirements, pricing, and design.Product evangelism around Kubernetes, Automation, DevOps/DevSecOps. Spoken at Meetups and have conversations with technical and C-suite teams around DevOps/DevSecOps tooling, culture, state of containers, automation and more.Conference involvement (booth work and education) at DevOps Enterprise Summit, Red Hat Summit, and regional DevOps Days.Involved in day-to-day work in helping sales teams across the SouthEast in identifying opportunities and helping close deals from a technical perspective.GCP Professional Cloud Architect, HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate, Splunk SE and Red Hat accredited SA/SE in various tech stacks.

Ecommerce and Technology consulting as well as personal entrepreneur think tank/implementation company.Solid Experience in the following:* Shopify, 3DCart, CoreCommerce, Wordpress + Woocommerce and Woozone* Amazon FBA and Affiliate Marketing* Stripe, Braintree, 2Checkout, Paypal* Security and ecommerce consultingWorking on a variety of web-based ecommerce platforms (some successful, some not).

Configuration and management of Elasticsearch Clusters + various plugins (Marvel, Bigdesk, etc.) for production systems (dennys.com). Cluster running on 2 Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS VM's.Security and network management utilizing Recon-ng, nikto, Kali, RackConnect V2 policies, Server Density, MRTG, etc. Network/server architecture and planning.Rackspace Cloud expert in most facets of Rackspace Cloud (Cloud Sites, Servers, Monitoring, Databases, Rack Connect, etc). AWS and Terremark SME as well.Other stuff:* DevOps - deployment, planning, configuration of applications, systems - Docker, Ansible, Team City, Octopus Deploy, Jenkins, etc.* Docker and Ansible experience - custom playbooks, development, and test containers* DNS migration - consolidating various DNS servers/systems to DNSimple.com. Edit: 2015 - migrated from DNSimple to DNS Made Easy with 0 downtime.* Terremark Enterprise Cloud & vCloud Express - capacity planning, systems architecture, DevOps for client applications* Adobe InDesign Server - single and multi-instance systems handling back end IDML processing for a variety of applications. Using Indesign Server CS6 - CC14 (migrating production systems to CC 14 in 2015/2016).* ServerDensity.com, New Relic, and Loggly - for monitoring various servers and web sites* Sendgrid.com - bulk SMTP email relay. Leveraging their API for advance analytics.* Rackspace.com - deeper integration with Cloud Sites, Cloud Files, Cloud Servers, Cloud Backup, Managed Rackspace systems, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Monitoring, etc. Our #1 hosting system with over 25 servers (Windows and Linux) and scores of applications and websites.Older but still relevant information on Technology stack/skills being used:* C#* MVC4* SQL Server 2008R2 and SQL Server Express* ASP.NET* jQuery* Adobe DPS for building client mobile projects (iOS). Code:* Git - https://github.com/Valien* BitBucket - https://bitbucket.org/allenv

You need me to help you find the right person for your IT organization. Why? Because I come from the IT world and I understand what other agencies don't understand. I'm flexible when others aren't flexible. I'm committed to your success when others don't care. I consult when others only want give you what you don't need. I will walk away from bad business if it's not a win for my candidates or for our company.In my 1st full year at FGP I brought in over $300K in billings and net margin.Successfully broke into 5+ new accounts and placed over 45 IT professionals in the Upstate area in contract and direct-hire positions.This was all in a 'down economy'.As of Fall 2010 I have generated over $1.3 million in recurring revenue (contract and project work). On top of that have billed over $150K in permanent billings. Who do you want to help you find the best talent for your organization? Me or the other guy who doesn't have a clue as to what you really need?

I started as a Executive Recruiter focusing on IT related searches in the South Carolina area. After 3 months I was asked to step into a sales role which I currently hold. My time as a recruiter helps me as a sales person close more deals.I also have a strong IT background which is invaluable in this industry. I can better understand my clients needs and also know what great IT people look like.

As the Programs Officer I help with identifying topics, speakers, and meeting agendas with the assistance of a programs committee, other board members, and Chapter members. Leads Chapter meetings and social activities in the President’s absence or on a rotating basis with other officers.

Owner of ChumpmonkeyGames.com (no longer). Online e-store selling family and German-style boardgames like - Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne, etc. Business was profitable from day one. Ended closing it down due to the fact the storage closet/room became the baby's room. ChumpmonkeyGames.com was a Sole Proprietorship.

Now a defunct company but while it was active was responsible for all things IT related; including hardware, software, architecture, etc. Also handled day-to-day operations management, inventory, technical sales and sales support, and who knows what else. When you work with a small business you do everything to keep it going.CII was the management holding company that controlled the following LLC's and DBA's: + Triple C Technologies, LLC - main company that was a VAR in the IT and Access Control/Automation/Security marketplace. 90% of my responsibility was with Triple C. I oversaw up to 4-6 technicians, did RFP's, handled all IT support, did accounting, etc. + Safety & Security International Distributors, LLC - saw a need for a security distributer in the Upstate so started SSID to sell security and safety related products to other VAR's and online.+ Security Hut (DBA) - retail storefront that sold nothing but personal and commercial security equipment. Also had a profitable e-commerce store hosted via Yahoo! eCommerce that sold security related products to NASA, US Army, multiple private companies. Shipped products all over the world. + Radix Hosting Solutions (DBA) - hosted client websites and utilized Plesk and cPanel. I managed everything related to this company + Radix Interactive (DBA) - did web design and development work for small businesses. Mainly utilized OSS (Mambo anyone?) software to host client websites + Palm Magician, LLC - software company that was supposed to develop and market an OCR reader for the Palm Pilot device. The owner missed the marketing opportunity for this and product never came to market.Technologies used during this time included: cPanel, Plesk, Mambo, Quickbooks, QuoteWerks, MS Office 2003/2007, MS Small Business Server 2003, DansGuardian, Smoothwall Firewall, Sielox Access Control, HID Proximity readers, multiple DVR and CCTV systems, multiple Linux distros, Windows XP Pro, etc.

After being laid off from ScanSource did freelance IT consulting, and short-term contract work for TekSystems, and others.

Transitioned back into Network and Systems Administration in July of 2001. Experienced with Lotus Notes, Domino, Linux, Sendmail, Solaris 8 administration, Cisco and HP ProCurve administration as well.Utilized Veritas NetBackup, BackupExec, StorageTek, SolarWinds, etc.Also, managed over 70 Windows NT/2000 servers, some Exchange work and Active Directory maintenance. Managed ADP Payroll server and was the primary Solaris Administrator.EMC Clariion SAN Array Administrator - managed over 500 GB of raw data hosting Oracle and SQL databases. Created partitions and slices as needed, troubleshot issues with SAN as they arose. Installed and configured Fibre Channel cards for Solaris 8 and Windows 2000 servers to gain access to SAN.

Technical project lead for corporate website redesign for both external (corporate and micro-sites) and internal (intranet) sites. Worked with marketing department to create new sites and maintain existing sites.Created a time sheet (Classic ASP) for internal use that was still being used in 2009 (with enhancements I believe). Worked with a team of 4-5 other developers on multiple projects.Did all software development using a variety of technologies including Python, PHP, Classic ASP, Lotus Notes, ColdFusion, HTML, CSS, Lotus Notes and Domino, etc.Sites that I was responsible for included: www.scansource.com, www.channelmax.com (defunct), www.product-catalog.com, www.catalysttelecom.com, www.paracon.com, www.blackarrowecom.com (defunct), etc.

+ Tasked with creating the Web Technologies Department from scratch+ Managed a team of 7 developers, content editors and artists in charge of all of BJU's websites, both external and internal.+ Helped develop Internet and intranet strategy for the University and BJU Press+ Involved in a major e-commerce project for www.bjup.com in conjunction with IKON Consulting Services. Dealt primarily with screen layout, design, usability, and content along with other e-commerce issues+ Taught training courses on Internet/Intranet technology and publishing for the school, both on an Academic and an IT training level

+ Managed all Internet related activities for the University+ Instrumental in helping deploy Internet access for 4000+ users (Faculty and Students)+ Implemented MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) to monitor traffic and usage on T1's, Switches, Routers, and other SNMP devices+ Wrote technical and acceptable use policies for the school in conjunction with Dean of Students Office.+ Developed and maintained the University's first Intranet site+ Did network administration on a hybrid Novell, NT, and Linux network (20+ servers)+ Extensive experience with Cisco products (PIX Firewall, 2900 Series switches, 1900 series switches, 5500 Router/Switch, and 3600 Series Router)+ Successfully converted and implemented Sendmail solutions for our external SMTP boxes. Including hacking Sendmail to close an open bug that was letting spammers relay thousands of emails through BJU's external e-mail system (took about 8 hours to find the bug, research the code and patch is successfully).+ Extensive knowledge with Internet content filtering using Novell BorderManager and N2H2's Bess Proxy filter.+ Helped maintained network security both internally and externally via our Web servers, firewalls, router ACL's.