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Chapel Hill, NC, US

Redmond, Washington, US

Redmond, Washington, US

I help businesses gain a competitive advantage with data, AI, and advanced analytics

Seattle, Washington, US

• IBM Power Systems run natively in Azure. I help customers rehost and modernize their demanding applications running on IBMi (AS/400), AIX, and Power Linux on Azure. Application examples include JD Edwards, Manhattan.
• As a Microsoft Business Guest, my team helps enterprises transform the most demanding applications into Azure.

San Jose, California, US

• First hire into NetApp’s Azure Business Group. Helped launch a new Microsoft First Party Service, called Azure NetApp Files - starting when it was a concept on a napkin.
• As part of the Azure NetApp product team, helped build the Azure business strategy that grew from 3 individual contributors into a global team of 88 Specialists, cloud architects, and customer success pros.
• Helped Coca Cola CONA accelerate their journey to SAP Hana on Microsoft Azure five months ahead of schedule and achieve 39% TCO savings over legacy SAP deployment. Coca Cola celebrated their success in this video.

San Jose, California, US

• Account Executive responsible for NetApp’s Cloud Data Services and Cloud Insights analytics suite working with select enterprise customers in the Mid-Atlantic region (SAP America, Red Hat, Marriott Global, Exelon.
• Helped the world’s largest hotel firm discover and leverage near-real-time analytics to optimize the infrastructure supporting 243 critical applications spanning 9 data centers and two AWS regions following large.
• Led the team in transforming a legacy perpetual software business into a subscription business.

San Jose, California, US

• Helped cloud service providers bridge the gap between IT finance, operations, and engineering systems leveraging cross-domain analytics.
• Helped cloud service provider with 32 data centers transform their chargeback model to prevent billing leakage. The net-net resulted in $4M in top-line revenue growth and $3.2M in capex deferment savings from.
• Helped cloud service provider with 14 data centers reclaim orphaned assets and drive $11M in capEx deferral savings
• Responsible for revenue across three cloud service providers and four global systems integrators (GSI) relationships.

San Jose, California, US

• Responsible for solution focusing on end-to-end analytics of app to infra dependencies, optimizing VM densities, and application abnormality detection.
• Developed an emerging technology adoption program that quickly helped incubate NetApp's acquisition of Akorri Networks driving annual sales growth of 150%+ two years in a row, and growing client-base from 300 to 1000+.
• Launched partner enablement and partner-led software assessment programs, which in turn accelerated NetApp tech refreshes with 88% software attach rate.

San Jose, California, US

• Business Development Rep of the Year, Enterprise – FY 2011
• Highest Grossing Net-New acquisition of FY 2011 in the Americas
• Promoted to Channel Development Manager after spearheading new strategic DMR partnership with Softchoice.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Helped Fortune 100 beverage company accelerate their journey to SAP Hana on Microsoft Azure five months ahead of schedule and achieve 39% TCO savings over legacy SAP deployment - see reference video featured here.
• During the initial onset of the pandemic, helped 25 enterprises in the Southeast migrate their Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to Windows Virtual Desktop or Citrix on Azure as evidenced by the Ferguson Enterprises.
• Microsoft Business Guest aligned with the MS Southeast Intelligent Cloud team.

Houston, Texas, US

Helped clients succeed with BMC Software’s IT Service Management software (ITSM - Remedy & Service Desk Express), data center automation, and virtualization lifecycle management software solutions.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics

Accounting