• Present AWS vision and technologies, strategy, and product roadmaps to executives, senior management, and engineers, while ensuring customer success and the adoption of AWS's services.• Lead the professional development and continuous training of our next-generation pre-sales leaders and solutions architects by designing key enablement programs and implementing operational excellence solutions.

• Partner with customers in defining and building joint Hybrid Cloud project plans with clear goals, milestones, and metrics by leveraging data-driven application dependency and mapping tools.• Align objectives and bridge communications with cross-departmental leaders to drive change across the customer’s organizations by identifying and resolving key project risks in a timely and effective manner while using multiple solutions to achieve their project goals.• Provide dynamic leadership and coaching to the first- and second-line Managers and Systems Engineering teams in guiding customers through the intricacies of VMware’s solutions.

• AMER Solutions Engineering Leader of the Year Award - Selected as the top Pre-Sales Engineering Leader in the SDDC organization for FY 19.

• Solutions Engineering Leader of the Quarter Award - Selected as the top Pre-Sales Engineering Leader of Q1 & Q2 FY 2019 - AMER SDDC organization.

• Designed and architected flexible and effective solutions, utilizing IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS services into the customer’s environments by leveraging Private, Public and Hybrid clouds platforms.• Worked with customers to design the right technical approach that mitigated the risks caused by technical complexity and legacy applications by using software abstraction layers, resource pooling and automation. • Led internal service discussions, translating customer needs and feedback into actionable insights to ensure successful customer on-boarding, business-wide adoption, and deepen service proficiency.• As a CTO Ambassador, I represented our customers during internal R&D and engineering team meetings to influence the product direction, define new customer use-cases, and adjust the go-to-market strategy.

• CTO Ambassador Leadership Award - Received the CTO Ambassador Leadership Award for all the contributions made to the user community during CY 2017.

• Specialist of the Year, Networking & Security - Selected as the Americas Networking and Security Specialist of the year for all the technical contributions made to the team, customers and partners.

• Big Hitter Award - Received the Q1 CY 2014 Big Hitter Award for closing the biggest Cloud Management deal in the region and helping our Government customer get the "Innovation Award" for best use of new technologies.

• Collaborated and closely worked with the named Account Executives leading the design and implementation of enterprise data center solutions for both corporate and commercial accounts.• Reviewed customer's business challenges and designed specific solutions to meet their business and technical needs by enhancing their existing systems and implementing new technologies.• Led the implementation of in-depth strategies for IT security, BC/DR, data center migration and consolidation, and new application implementations.

• Pioneered comprehensive projects aimed at enhancing internal systems and IT operations for the corporation.• Evaluated and planned application upgrades, working in partnership with developers and database administrators before and after each project implementation.• Led the design and first-generation implementation of a private cloud creating multiple parallel hardware PODs with VMware software, EMC & HP SANs, Brocade Fibre Switches, and Cisco Switches/Routers to support the internal real-time trading applications.

• Led the two internal Systems Engineering teams (IT Operations & Labs), to deliver on the organizational goals of the University. • Worked in conjunction with the Development team, allocating resources to new projects and helping them complete the deployment of new applications on-time and within budget. • Cultivated a teamwork-centric culture focused on productivity and timely issue resolution by tracking and prioritizing support requests based on campus location and potential service impact to end users.• Proactively managed the IT Operations & Labs teams’ performance, compensation, training, and recruitment.• Successfully developed and implemented the first formal program for IT Operations & Lab engineers to advance their careers and move internally into other areas of the University.