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Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Strategic solutions architect, consultant in pre and post sales activities covering cloud services, DevOps, DevSecOps, Cybersecurity, Regulatory compliance, et al practice areas.

Provided cybersecurity, technology, process and architectural strategy for startups, mid-range and enterprise organizations. Served as interim CTO, CIO and startup bootstrapping advisor for a variety of clients with focus on data privacy, information security and production readiness for new service and product platforms.Engaged in architecture, design and integration of R3 Corda, Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT; aka permissioned Blockchain) for fintech startups and financial institutions. Assessed existing business apps and developed new methods to leverage DLT as an immutable, verifiable record of truth. Articulated business value, use cases, reference architectures, implementation strategy and deployment plans.

Newton, Ma, Us

- Advised prospects and customers on aligning CyberArk solutions with security and business goals.- Developed and presented tailored security architectures addressing customer challenges.- Acted as a bridge between product teams and clients for feature feedback and adoption.

Palo Alto, California, Us

- Drove customer adoption, ensuring alignment with business objectives and ROI.- Identified and mitigated adoption risks, while uncovering opportunities for account expansion.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

- Provided executive-level guidance on DevSecOps transformation, scaling expertise in the field.- Architected solutions integrating third-party tech to create new use cases and revenue streams.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Guided technical implementations and PoC, ensuring customer satisfaction and long-term relationships.- Promoted CircleCI through content creation, webinars, and events to build brand value.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed the design, planning and implementation of passwordless MFA delivery for HYPR's Enterprise customers.Replaced 100's of 1000's of ID/Password based credentials with True Passwordless MFA

San Francisco, California, Us

Hired as the first Technical Account Manager for GitLab, having the privilege to shape and define the role and its function, managing enterprise account portfolio sustaining estimated $8M in ARR. Technical engagements followed consistent ramp-up, onboarding, architectural and implementation consulting, migration strategy, refactoring CI/CD pipelines and bringing new teams from broader technical disciplines to streamline DevOps and SDLC lifecycles.Responsible for all post-sales technical responsibilities, using telemetry and platform utilization analytics to drive renewals, expansion and adoption of new capabilities to significantly lower operational costs, reduce security risk and make higher quality software, faster.Applied broad technical expertise in tools, platforms, process, design and architectural frameworks within each stage of the DevOps Lifecycle.Primary technical point of contact for engineering stakeholders and a strategic advisor for VP and C-suite leadership to reduce cycle-times, security risks and incidents while increasing quality and velocity using GitLab's purpose-built, end-to-end SDLC/DevOps platform.

Developed the conceptual models, platform architecture, implementation and design specifications for a multi-dimensional, autonomic, borderless and universal digital recognition engine for human authentication.The digital recognition engine data architecture was built on a blockchain model for immutable and distributed user authority, removing centralized control of the user account and activity records, ensuring individuals maintained control over disclosing personal data.

San Francisco, California, Us

Partnered with account executives to articulate the technical architecture and business value of Distil's solution and get the technical win.Provided hands-on expertise for during implementation and integration with many top 100 Alexa ranked sites on the Internet.Developed an SE toolkit that automated the discovery, traffic-based sizing and implementation architecture diagrams to streamline the transition to Distil's customer success and engineering teams.

Research Triangle Park, Nc, Us

Brought on as a change agent, to evaluate the current state of a FISMA compliant compute, analytics and data storage environment. Synthesized input from customer intake forums, individual interviews, hands on discovery and analysis of system design and configuration. Developed a series of recommendations, the most substantial being a re-design of a fully managed hosting infrastructure.Led re-factoring effort for a NIST Moderate Security Infrastructure and HIPAA compliant managed services environment that hosted $300M in US Federal and International research contracts.Responsible for strategy, design, delivery and operation of NIST Moderate and HIPAA compliance fully managed application and infrastructure services environment. The role required deep technical expertise, government and commercial business acumen. Actively engaged with customers, engineers, developers, executives, researchers, administrators and the front-lines of technical support. Acted as change agent, established forums, processes and technical solutions that resulted in next-level collaboration between disparate teams. The efforts resulted in improved user-experience, reduced TCO and faster cycle times across the board.Architected a multi-data center platform for shared and dedicated application hosting services for large-scale research studies and federal contracts. Led the architecture and implementation of Business Intelligence, HRMS, Travel and Expense system and other critical infrastructure platforms.

Research Triangle Park, Nc, Us

Architected a multi-data center platform for shared and dedicated application hosting services for large-scale research studies and federal contracts. Led the architecture and implementation of Business Intelligence, HRMS, Travel and Expense system and other critical infrastructure platforms.

Established and operated an independent consultancy specializing in managed services architecture, internet-scale infrastructure design and automation. This included identifying opportunities, developing statements of work, negotiating contracts, managing account relationships and financialsCarried out performance and architectural assessment and implemented a series of improvements covering security, networking, database, integration and query performance for the logistic services platform.Designed and implemented application infrastructure with conventional hosting provider using XenServer as platform for constructing purpose-built web, app, cache, database servers as well as network segments and security boundaries.Led architecture, implementation and deployment efforts for AT&T, BellMobility, Verizon, Sprint, TracFone, et. al mobile content delivery platforms. Automated the build, release and deployment of content delivery infrastructure for development, QA, engineering and operation teams, dramatically reducing cycle time and increasing operational efficiency and accuracy.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Led architecture, implementation of State of NC ITS Shared Hosting Infrastructure and Based on z/VM mainframe platform, shared storage and multi-zone network security model.Built automation and translation scripts used to migrate 180+ state agency applications from disparate hosting providers, w/stand-alone Sun/Solaris, Linux, Windows platforms to High-Availability clustered IBM z900, z/VM host running RedHat Linux guests on-demand using a shared, single-disk image and automated config distribution and roll-back.

Toronto, On, Ca

Provided architecture, design, implementation and transition services for a corporate consolidation of data centers and web applications. Developed automation scripts for pushing code between development, staging and production environments.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Responsible for technical value proposition, technical discovery, solution design, quote development and defining the to-be customer architecture for web properties like Commerce-One, soccerage.com, GE global email, NBA.com, blueman.com, et al.Engineering lead and technical liaison to managed app hosting customers during integration of applications and data into Intel global data centers and managed services infrastructure.

Troy, Michigan, Us

Administered server, application, database and network infrastructure for internal software development team.

San Francisco, California, Us

Provided front-line support and triage during consolidation of Novell Netware NDS to Windows NT 4.0 platform, handling integration challenges ranging from IBM CICS, z/OS, AS400, NDS, NT 3.51, Solaris and OS2-Warp.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Deployed "Ericsson Standard Office Environment" using network-based automated build and installation, upgrade and migration of backend infrastructure to Windows NT 4.0, Exchange 5.5 and deployment of T-1 circuits between Ericsson N. American sites.

Business Administration

Computer Networking And Information Security