I lead Ahead's national Security Solution Engineering team (pre-sales), helping organizations strengthen their security posture through cross-domain expertise that delivers transformative outcomes. Our four key differentiators:• Advisory Consulting: Pen Testing, Gap Assessments, Risk Analysis, and Business Impact Assessments (BIA).• Secure Architectures: SASE, Security Operations (SecOps), and Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP).• Cyber Recovery: Incident Response and Execution (IRE) and Clean Room Services.• Managed Security: End-to-end protection through Ahead's Security Operations Center (SOC).

As the CTO of Security at CDI, I lead the security go-to-market strategy and the cybersecurity services catalog for the fastest-growing business unit at CDI.Our go-to-market strategy emphasizes the relationship between zero trust security, data intelligence, and contextual response. Modernizing our customers' approach across these three key categories helps our customers become cyber-resilient. The services catalog includes a comprehensive portfolio of Advisory Cybersecurity services led by our Red Team and vCISOs. We also provide implementation and managed services to help our customers achieve total value from their investments. I also work closely with marketing on planning Cybersecurity events along with our partner echo system, often speaking at these events. Our security GTM strategy has led to 200% in revenue growth, making Cybersecurity our fastest-growing line of business.

Focus Area: Cybersecurity posture hardening, Ransomware Recovery, Modern ApplicationsAs CTO at Clearpath Solutions Group my goal is to support strategic sales opportunities with account teams, closely follow industry trends in an effort to shape our go to market strategy for our Modern Applications and Cybersecurity practices.

Focused on helping strategic accounts understand how VMware’s advanced solutions can help cut costs and bring in additional revenue. This is a hands on keyboard position often requiring advanced POCs to help technically validate solutions. Areas of specialization: vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator.

Strategic focus on core VMware technologies including but not limited to vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SRM, Horizon, and the vRealize Suite (vRA, vRB, vRLI, vROps, and vRCS)

Data Center architecture design including cybersecurity (CheckPoint, Cisco FirePower, Palo Alto Networks), route/switch (Cisco Nexus/Catalyst), compute (Cisco UCS/HCI), Storage (EMC, Nimble, and Pure), and HCI solutions (VSAN, SimPlivity, Nutanix)