Architect in Al/ML Solutions team with focus on providing enterprises with Al/ML ready solutions and Dell Validated Designs• Formerly Architect in Future Growth Engines group with focus on future technologies and emphasis on Dell Apex Cloud offerings• Lead architect on multiple projects incubating strategic direction for SaaS platform initiatives including Infrastructure as Code and policy based endeavors around active management• Lead architect for working group on implementing secure device onboarding with FIDO• Inventor on 17 patents (7 Granted, 4 Published and 6 Pending) in United State Patent Office, several of which are slated for inclusion into products (see patent portfolio appendix for details and clickable links)• Cross BU (SaaS, Datacenter, Edge, Telco) technical liaison working with Product Managers, Architects, Data Scientists andEngineering teams• Member of architectural review board subcommittee for management and orchestration• 2 year running annual hackathon winner (Global Runner Up 2022 in Apex Cloud implementing a working prototype of USPO patent on Client Browser to Endpoint Peer to Peer Redirection from Cloud Control Pane | Regional Winner in Advanced Computing 2023 showcasing a working prototype of a pending patent: System and Method for Managing Processes Performed by Host Devices Using a Management Controller) leading and personally selecting team members•Remote management and infrastructure deployment expert supporting development Al/ML workloads such as Dell PowerAssist within CTO (compute [multi-GPU systems], storage, networking, k8s, ArgoCD pipeline)

Cloud and Compute Business Unit Cloud software technical lead covering Private Cloud laaS and optimization product lines including UCS Director (Private Cloud laaS offering) Intersight Cloud Orchestrator and Intersight Workload Optimizer• Technical arm/SME for Product Management team helping define requirements, assisting with grooming of product backlog and acting as a technical liaison with the engineering teams•Managed and created technical decision maker collateral, live and online demonstrations using video recording and clickable demo software• Lead several partner integrations including Pure Storage, NetApp and Hitachi Provided formal field and partner updates (deep dive) sessions on product capabilities and updatesProvided support to field sales teams to win deals

Manager Product owner for Cisco integrations and supported on premises feature sets•Worked all aspects of product delivery• Cisco WOM Product Owner• Customer input gathering and translation to backlog items•Field/sales input gathering and translation to backlog items• Managing and prioritization of engineering backlog

Technical Marketing Engineer | Compute Systems Product Group• Engineer on Unified Computing Systems (UCS) competitive intelligence team with speciality in technical analysis of Cloud software, hardware management software, APIs and baseboard management controllers• Work directly with product management teams to educate on competitive landscape and customer mindset of features• Create technical analysis material of competing products for worldwide field distribution including battlecards and full competitive presentations• Programmability expertise utilizing APIs and extending into automation and provisioning engines• Hybrid cloud designs and use case development with Cisco CloudCenter• Designed, implemented and delivered customer environments for all UCS Walk-In-Self-Paced for CiscoLive tradeshow• Recurring speaker roles at CiscoLive US, EMEA, LATAM, and ANZ covering a multitude of products and technologies - Most recent recording from CiscoLive in Melbourne Australia: http://cs.co/Day1UCS • Support worldwide field sales teams with customer engagements• Implement and test competitive products including HPE, Dell, Lenovo and others in lab environments• Create technical videos showcasing advantages of products• Design and implement multiple greenfield cloud lab environments in Cisco San Jose Campus• Hire and manage lab staff to support lab environments• Lead software engineering team to create internal scheduling and automation software for lab environments• Liason with 3rd party software partners to integrate with UCS

• Senior architect for Travelport’s worldwide VMware vSphere environments• Senior architect on Cisco UCS infrastructure• Key role in creating purchasing requirements for hardware and software including VMware ELA and all server hardware infrastructure• Provide presale technical overviews to large prospective Cisco UCS clients per customer reference agreement• Design and execution of all MS Windows clusters utilizing Microsoft Cluster Services (20+ multi node clusters)• Senior architect for worldwide Altiris Server Management Suite Solution for 8,000+ Servers (Windows, Linux, and VMware) • Develop internal support applications and front end report engines for VMware VirtualCenter and Altiris Databases• Provide advanced training and presentations to peers, operations staff and management• Consult with IBM’s research team on blade center architecture and systems management architecture outlining strengths and weakness of their product offerings• Liaison between application development teams and technical operations• Team lead and mentor for junior engineers• Act as pre-vendor support (Level 3/4) for Microsoft, VMware, Symantec, Cisco UCS, IBM hardware, and HP Hardware• Publish online video training for all systems implemented• Built and maintained e-Commerce server farms; Largest farm of 1400+ rack mount Windows servers that functions as a grid style transaction processing farm• Designed Active Directory Infrastructure for production, pre production and development ecommerce environments• Engineered backend Microsoft SQL Server (2000/2005/2008) database clusters• Implemented Foundry ServerIron hardware and provided level 3 (pre-vendor) support for Layer 3 load balancingProvided LAN/WAN support down to packet level inspection

· Supported Mixed OS environment (Novell 3.x, 4.x, 5.x; Windows NT 4, 2000); · Administered LAN/WAN environment (Approx. 5,000 users)· Provided technical support for Field Network Engineers· Assisted in technical interviews for prospective employees· Prepared and installed servers at remote sites

· Repaired and troubleshot computer problems· Provided technical support for Field Technicians· Prepared 1000+ computers for use at state wide correctional facilities