As the first Principal Architect in Defense for Google Public Sector, I will lead and direct cross-functional teams to design, plan, implement, and govern cloud strategies, while combining technical vision and business insight to drive sales execution. In close partnership with Value Engineering, I will articulate the total value of solutions and the overall business partnership with Google Public Sector, with a focus on aiding public sector institutions in their digital transformations through purpose-built solutions. I will build trusted advisory relationships with strategic accounts, offering domain expertise and promoting Google Cloud, while recommending and managing integration strategies and enterprise architectures to deliver optimal business value.

Dan serves as a Global Principal Enterprise Architect for Dell Technologies Select. Responsible for all technology workstreams brought into his global manufacturing customers. Dan leads a large team of engineers, solution principles, and enterprise architects to align growth and innovation with the customer’s business needs. Much of his time is devoted to achieving integration and continued growth across large global services contracts. Dan is charged with driving the strategy of extending private cloud services into edge and manufacturing.Focused on complex integrations of Edge/Telecom solutions that align to customer outcomes to IT/OT solutions in manufacturing.Work collaboratively across client and all Dell Technologies businesses (Dell, Dell-EMC, VMware, Intel, PTC, CTS, Airspan). Work closely with the client’s internal IT organizations and architectural standards groups to identify, qualify and position potential Dell Technology solutions.Is the lead technical expert with an emphasis on pre-sales motions and scoping of the customers vision through Dell Technologies solution development.Act as the conduit for all technical architecture issues that arise in the account. Provide technical leadership across the company and partner teams, assuring quality, maximizing team output, across geographically dispersed teams with ability to maintain multiple streams of effort.

Responsible for providing technology direction, technical expertise, consultancy and clarity in complex technical situations for our largest customers across the Air Force. Working closely with the core and specialist account teams to help meet revenue, customer satisfaction requirements & develop customer understanding of VMware portfolio. Owns the technology relationships up to CxO level & provides technology thought leadership while applying VMware’s Outcome Focused approach to design strategies within the Air Force. Was selected and served within the Office of the CTO Ambassador Program for two year as a member of a small group of the most experienced and talented customer facing, individual contributor technologists. As an ambassador I helped to ensure a tight collaboration between R&D and our customers so that we could address current customer issues and future needs as effectively as possible.

Aligned with the DoD Sales Director supporting strategy oversight across all the DoD. This included promoting architectural consistency across all Defense Agencies to ensure that VMware has a consistent message with all DoD leadership. Worked closely with R&D teams on alignment of VMware’s cloud strategy to support federal cloud compliance requirements. Key contributor across all VMware’s DevSecOps efforts within the DoD, providing architectural guidance for Tanzu based solutions. Responsible for creating GTM artifacts and enablement for both customers and internal sales force within DoD sales team. Focused on roadmap design on both Space Force and Kessel Run projects within the Air Force. Key contributor on VMware’s cloud and tactical edge design for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI).

Providing strategic technical leadership in large IT programs within the Air Force and Combatant Commands. An expert at counseling and leading clients through transformative change in datacenter, virtualization, and cloud initiatives in a pre-sales capacity. Technical pre-sales Solutions Engineer supporting direct and channel partner’s sales teams. Providing design reviews with customers and workshops to allow the integration of many complex solutions into production environments. Ensure success of customer proof-of-concepts with VMware technology. Proactively seek out new sales opportunities by developing new and existing technical relationships within accounts.

Involved in the implementation of vSphere core services, vRealize Automation, and EUC products. Involved in design and implementation of Cloud Pod Architecture, App Volumes, and Mirage. Experience implementing Virtual SAN into customer environments, additionally supported performance testing through the use of I/O Analyzer against virtual desktops running on Virtual SAN to identify optimal tuning of Virtual SAN to support customer IOP requirements. Conducted design workshops to support large multi-site vRealize Operations Manager deployments supporting enterprise customers. Provided delivery of the technical components of each engagement. This includes the product installation, configuration per the architecture and/or the SOW. This might also include integration points with a customer’s existing monitoring solution or other VMware products. Applied the use VMware and industry best practices for consistent software delivery.

Senior engineer supporting an enterprise infrastructure comprised of vCloud Director 5.5, View Horizon 5.2, and a large assortment of VMware software applications. Additionally I provide complete storage administration of both enterprise NetApp storage arrays and Fusion IO arrays. I am also trained in FlexPod technologies supporting Cisco UCS blades, Nexus 5548UP switches configured on a 10GB networks. Additionally I provide technical solution design for contract proposals to include technical writing, diagram design, and integration development of both hardware and software in datacenter environments.