My primary objective is to offer smart, strategic advice to my clients and prospects to help them achieve their goals - faster. I couple big picture thinking with microscopic attention-to-detail to creatively and succinctly solve the most challenging business problems Fortune 1000 companies face. I'm most proud of my successes in strategizing technology solutions for clients around a variety of needs including cloud/hybrid cloud, public cloud offerings, big data, data lakes, machine learning, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, compute, governance and security, storage, virtualization, network, and automation/orchestration - resulting in increased top line revenues and improved operational efficiencies. Mentorship and staying active in the community is important to me. I'm proud to sit on the board for the Center for the Visually Impaired. I enjoy spending time with my wife, children and black lab. Together, we travel internationally, hike, camp, and generally live an adventurous life. I'm an avid snowboarder and mountain biker, and overall outdoor enthusiast. I am thrilled to continue my academic journey in Emory University’s Executive MBA program [class of 2024] in parallel with my career at Elastic.