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After working for decades at companies large & small, in individual contributor & leadership roles I decided it was time to take a big risk and see if I could make it on my own. I resigned from my position at Google and became self-employed, with a plan to decompress and dive into my own ventures.

Canada

Leading the charge in educating the Google Cloud technical field force.As Technical Enablement Lead, I develop and deliver technical training for the Google Cloud Consulting Organization, focused on developing and enabling the technical roles (Consultants & Strategic Cloud Engineers) with the skills they need to be successful in delivering engagements.

Professional Services

The Principal Architect within Professional Services Engineering (PSE) drives a culture of innovation into how we develop and deliver Professional Services to our customer and acts as a mentor and technical leader to the PSE individual contributors. In PSE I am focused on how we can change the nature of work for our Professional Services delivery.

Global Services

Principal Architect and Director of the Innovation Office within Global Services at VMware. My team and I invented and delivered VMware Skyline from concept through POC/POV to customer facing beta, with Skyline being launched at VMworld in 2017.https://www.vmware.com/ca/support/services/skyline.html- Created, secured funding and ran all aspects of the GS.

Global Technology Solutions Center Of Excellence

Lead Architect for Cloud Infrastructure Management in the Global Technology Solutions (GTS) CoE.In this role I was regulary tasked with developing systems and extensions to deliver on customer specific outcomes that were not facilitated by VMware's core product functionality. This was accomplished through the development of systems, code, and workflows.

The role of the Solutions Architect (SA) is to act as trusted technical advisor to our prospects and clients to ensure that they are fully leveraging the capabilities of the uptime software products to achieve their business goals. In this role I bridged the gap between customers goals and product capabilities by researching and developing new product.

The systems architects at Scalar Decisions designed infrastructure (hardware & software) solutions for our customers to meet their specific business needs. Acting as trusted technology advisors and implementation engineers for technologies from Sun, Oracle, HP, Cisco, VMware, f5 Networks, Netapp and many others.

The Systems Architect at STG designed solutions to meet STG's customer needs based on software and hardware technology offerings from Sun Microsystems. The SA acts as a trusted advisor to STGs customers, and as the key technical contact during the sales process.

- Systems Administrator and implementation architect for mission critical unix infrastructure (Solaris, AIX)- Capacity Planning- ERP infrastructure management- Design, deploy and manage all unix based infrastructure initiatives related to backup and recovery, authentication, administration, SAN management and monitoring.- Development of in-house.

Provided datacenter management consulting services to enterprises throughout the world, specializing in IT service architecture as well as operations management assessment, planning and methodology development. Primary focus on FI, Energy and Telco verticals.Acted as a trusted advisor to Sun Microsystems strategic enterprise accounts throughout Latin.

Open Systems team architect and integration developer for the launch of HA-Web, the precursor to the Easyweb online banking platform.Assess new technologies and develop deployment architectures for services deployed on open systems platforms. (Primarily Solaris & AIX)Evaluate and POC integration strategies between the Open Systems environments and host.