Lead a rapidly evolving data infrastructure practice at an extremely fast paced and swiftly growing solutions integrator. I worked to harmonize modern solutions for our customers by working with our sales, pre-sales, delivery, project management, and executive leadership teams. I enjoyed great success at Core by focusing my effort on these tenants:• Lead, manage, grow the Application Infrastructure practice, supporting sales opportunities, growing and mentoring the team, enhancing their best practices, setting strategy for growth, defining the offers, and managing the practice.• Build and grow the Application Infrastructure Practice, working closely with the sales organization, engineering teams, and technology partners• Effectively communicate complex, business-changing solutions with our customers C-level leadership, Director-level leadership, and technical engineering teams• Create resources that aid sales and engineering teams with Statements of Work, Bill of Materials, proposals, and RFP replies• Technical team leadership, with focus on Data Center and Cloud solutions• Experience in the following areas: Data Center Networking, Compute, Storage, Virtualization, Hyper-converged Infrastructure, Backup & Recovery, Disaster Recovery, Data Management, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Wireless, SDN, SD-WAN.• Acting as a player/coach for my team of Solutions Architects, strong team leadership and organizational skills• Scope solutions and services, helping to sell/position proposed solutions/services on client opportunities (SOWs), and standardizing solutions for profitable and repeatable solutions.Work with the following strategic vendors: Cisco (AppDynamics, Meraki), DellEMC, Pure Storage, VMware, Veeam, Cohesity, HPE, Turbonomics, NetApp, Commvault, RubrikAwards:- Pre-sales Resource of the Quarter - Q2 2019- One Core Award - 2019- SE of the Year - 2019

My role as a Senior Solutions Architect allows me to be a trusted advisor to both established and new customers. At Arraya, I am able to expand our presence within customers, using diverse product and services to answer my customers' most challenging problems. I assist sales efforts, both pre and post-sale to ensure customer satisfaction. My core technical competencies at Arraya include: Enterprise Networking, Wireless, Data Center Technologies, Network Monitoring, Industrial and Healthcare Internet of Things, Analytics, Collaboration, and Network and Endpoint Security.

As a Systems Engineer for the Pennsylvania Commercial Territory team at Cisco, it is my responsibility to provide Cisco customers and partners technical guidance through their networking projects. In addition to my core knowledge of Switching and Routing, my areas of specialization include: Internet of Things, Data Center Switching, Wireless, Enterprise Network, Server Virtualization, Unified Computing, IWAN, and Network Security.I also serve as a team lead, assisting in onboarding and training new Systems Engineers to the team. My passion for growing the teams technical and sales competencies is reflected in our region's ability to reach goal in the past 3 consecetive years. Awards: Q4 FY '15 (July 2015) East Territory Operation Systems Engineer of the QuarterFY '14 East Territory Public Sector Systems Engineer of the YearQ1 FY '14 (November 2013) East Territory Public Sector Systems Engineer of the QuarterQ4 FY '13 (July 2013) PA Territory Systems Engineer of the QuarterQ2 FY '12 (February 2012) PA Public Sector Systems Engineer of the QuarterQ3 FY '11 (May 2011) PA Public Sector Systems Engineer of the QuarterQ3 FY '10 (May 2010) PA Public Sector Systems Engineer of the Quarter

Delivered specialized presentations to Cisco partners and customers regarding Cisco SMB products and services in a mobile demonstration van. I rapidly assimilated into the team environment and gained the knowledge needed to deliver solutions to customers and partners.

Supported an environment of 500 users and 300 systems including servicing PCs, troubleshooting user problems, deploying new systems, maintaining an accurate inventory, servicing laser printers, running and terminating Ethernet cable, and deploying switches.Key Contributions:-Deployed Symantec Ghost, saving two hours of build time for new systems-Planned company wide physical security system using IP controlled locks-Provided critical troubleshooting and support to systems and end-users-Implemented a phased upgrade of computer systems-Documented time saving features for future use

Demonstrated company’s product line to potential customers with enthusiastic and professional attitude. Participated in the creation of a new marketing venture that increased company sales 10 percent.Key Contributions:-Became one of the company’s top three representatives within first month of employment-Harmonized and managed teams and trained new employees-Awarded multiple bonuses for lead generation-Rebuilt corporate website with interactive pages for generating new leads

Trained to complete an end of year purge on clients systems remotely. Involved dialing into a remote network via modem or Internet with a variety of remote access suites, remotely backing up data to external media, and purging database information. Key Contributions:-Remotely accessed customer systems to purge and rollover data using remote access suites-Trained two account specialists on rollover procedures-Provided backup of critical data to remote sites.