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Redmond, Washington, United States

Chartered with Azure enablement among the Small-Medium sized (SMC) organizations to drive proactive services delivery. Enabling Azure growth across SMC as the Azure SME lead for SMC Digital for Services through technical customer engagement and delivering broad technical training to SMC Digital for Services.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Providing account management of Microsoft’s Services customers. Organizing and enabling technical support, timely resolution of technical support requests and using appropriate resources and escalation paths. Provisioning of technical and systems management advisory services that include ensuring skills transfer and customer readiness through the provisioning of workshops and training events. Delivering technical knowledge of the development and maintenance of current and future Microsoft Cloud Solutions. Creating and maintaining partnerships by effective working relationships with Microsoft Partners and the Microsoft Product solutions ecosystem.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Cloud Solution Architect working in the Partner Enterprise Architecture Team. Working closely with our Global SI, DXC (Americas) to drive building their Microsoft Azure solution practices and delivering cloud services to our joint customers. - Work closely with the Solution Architects at DXC to provide/support Azure solution architectures for solution building engagements (Services and IP)- Qualify Azure solution sales opportunities for joint customers of DXC and Microsoft (Proctor and Gamble, Rolls Royce, CIBC, GE, American Airlines)- Deliver several Azure technical presentations weekly to DXC technical sales, CTO and Solution architects at DXC to qualify on net-new Azure capabilities- Work with Azure Engineering to capture Azure product feedback from DXC and DXC (Americas) customers to integrate into potential new Azure updates- Engage DXC support engineering in conjunction with Microsoft Premier Support to assist issue resolution if escalated- Twice a year, I deliver Azure “Roadshows” to evangelize Azure capabilities and Azure training curriculum for DXC Azure support and Azure solution architects- Maintain and update Azure (external teams site) learning channels for DXC technical staff for Azure enablement to DXC America’s customers

Honolulu, Hawaii

- Managed our technical sales relationships with Department of Defense (DoD) personnel in Asia-Pacific (APAC). - Drove technical sales qualifications for Microsoft Office 365 Defense and for Azure and Azure Stack for defense through presentations and demonstrations. - Delivered regular technical briefings and tracked deployment of Windows 10 APAC theater wide to support DoD CIO directive to deploy Windows 10 across DoD. - Delivered Cloud and on-premise solution architecture to US Army Pacific (USARPAC), 30th Signal Brigade (Army) INDOPACOM (Pacific Command), Navy Sea Mission Systems (NAVSEA), Marine Forces Pacific (MARFORPAC) and Pacific Air Force (PACAF).- Key deployments included Office 365 at PACAF, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) and Azure at INDOPACOM, PACAF, Army Regional Cyber Center Pacific (RCC-P) and Army 30th Signal Brigade and Navy System Center Pacific (SSCPAC) for Dev-test. - Coordinated with Continental United States (CONUS) teams spanning Premier, MCS, Solution Team Units (STU) and Account Team Units (ATU).- Developed overall theater technical sales strategy for Microsoft product for APAC DoD units. - Collaborated with CONUS-based Microsoft teams to maintain visibility on DoD guidance, efforts, and direction that impact OCONUS units.

Honolulu, Hawaii

- First Account Technology Strategist in Hawaii region to support top Enterprise Hawaii-based accounts. - Drove key technical sales qualification and strategic deployment and consumption of Office 365, Azure, Windows Server, Remote Desktop Services, System Center 2012-2016. - Qualified Office 365 at Hawaiian Airlines, Bank of Hawaii (Bankoh), Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), Hawaiian Electric (HECO), HawaiianTel, Hawaii Pacific Heath (HPH) and Queens Medical Center for deployment and consumption. - Drove key technical sales and strategic deployment and consumption of Microsoft Azure at Hawaiian Airlines and Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO). Regularly partnered with Premier, MCS and STU/ATU to coordinate customer sales and services engagement. - Qualified Office 365 E5 EMS @ HMSA for deployment supporting 2000 users.- Technical sales qualification and virtualization design of HyperV at Hawaiian Airlines.

Bellevue, Wa

Founding member of Microsoft technical sales and Cloud solutions technology delivery to Cloud Providers. Led Initiative of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management pack for Amazon Web Services (AWS)Led technology team for Remote Desktop Services POC at AWS for Project Skylight (AWS WorkSpaces)

- Provided support and technical assistance to Appliant customers running various network architectures. Tasks included troubleshooting customers’ web servers, web page content and network to determine performance problems. - Helped to create an entire Customer Care and Professional Services group for customer support- Responsible for all customer installation, configuration, complete product training, and support.- Responsible for product (user interface and software monitors) testing on all components of software prior to GA and Beta release.- Delivered pre-sales qualifications of Appliant software to customers.- Designed, wrote and implemented all technical content for the support component of the Appliant Corporate web site.

Education record

Liberal Arts and Business

General Studies