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Denver, CO, US

• Collected, analyzed and shared insights on competitor strategies, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
• Identified and explored new business opportunities in existing, adjacent, and new markets
• Delivered high-quality market insights to product and senior leadership that guided product strategy, technology, and feature decisions
• Engaged with internal product teams, architects, and business leaders to inform on emerging technologies
• Lead Anomali’s participation in industry standards efforts including MITRE ATT&CK® and OASIS to influence standards development aligned with market informed product strategy

• Activated competitive analysis and technical oversight through sales enablement, product launch and marketing program activity
• Developed competitive intelligence program to inform go-to-market and sales enablement
• Provided technical product content for the development of white papers, solution briefs, battle cards, sales tools, videos, and presentations

• Lead the Solution Marketing function required to support product marketing efforts for capabilities that span the offering portfolio.
• Defined and executed the go to market strategy for various portfolio offerings including cloud infrastructure services and advanced analytics consulting
• Created awareness, differentiation and sales readiness for products and digital services
• Lead creative and content professionals to drive compelling and consistent messaging across all assets and channels, as well as elevate thought leadership in the market

Greater Denver Area

Portfolio architect developing cross business unit technical strategy within the context of data center transformation and outsourcing for Unisys products and offerings. Researched technology trends in Cloud, software defined data center, Internet of Things, Fabric Based Infrastructure to develop capability mapping models utilized in articulating and.

• Principal and focal point for the integration of a partner cloud storage network into IBM’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud offering.
• Pacesetter, providing direction and oversight for the development, test and delivery teams.
• Assessed business requirements, defined technical requirements and interfaced with internal organizations to establish operational readiness.
• Provided educational support and collateral to sales enablement.
• Consulted/interfaced with product offering, Distinguished Engineers and C-Level management (external and internal) on areas such as development methods, directly negotiating contract terms and providing program status

• Responsible for the development and architecture to support Cloud based medical imaging archive. Including technical design, direction and oversight to the development and test teams in accordance with IBM methodologies.
• Evaluated business needs to define technical requirements and communicate to company-wide organizations ensuring effective development of a cohesive service solution.
• Leveraged expertise in UNIX, database, storage, networking, security and management disciplines to create an end to end cloud service product.
• Worked closely with other lead architects across IBM in developing an architecture and service product design to meet the business objectives.
• Evaluated and incorporated design elements to meet or exceed government HIPAA guidelines for a covered entity in the processing of Protected Health Information (PHI).
• Responsible for leading and completing technical work products such as the Architectural Overview Diagram, Architectural Decisions, Component Model, and Build Plan.

• Senior architect on large scale server consolidation project using z/VM Linux mainframe as a PaaS cloud based infrastructure. Responsibilities included leadership, technical design, and direction to the IBM support.
• Implemented process and tooling to manage exponential growth in server provisioning, maintenance and management.
• Developed a High Availability solution based on Tivoli System Automation Multi-Platform within the z/VM hypervisor environment.
• Established a scalable and centralized Linux maintenance and management process using distributed shell technology that achieved 50 to 1 server administration ratios.
• Designed an efficient Linux image construction process that reduced provisioning and maintenance costs by 30%.

• Lead architect for the Standard Linux Server and Desktop Client based on Red Hat for the IBM customer. Responsible for working directly with the CIO's team in identifying business and user requirements.
• Orchestrated functional enhancements to enable an Open Standards based server and desktop platform.
• Managed cross functional team comprised of software development, integration, test and support personnel.
• Responsible for defining full product lifecycle from initial development through deployment and end-of-life.
• Constructed and ran beta release programs for rapid prototype development.
• Release coordinator for five major releases and multiple point releases. Responsible for O/S image unit and integration testing, packaging and production distribution.

• AIX team member in the Global Notes Architecture SP Complex build out during its growth from a 2 frame 32 node installation to a 22 frame 200+ node configuration hosting 80,000+ Lotus Notes e-mail customers and over.
• Technical team lead responsible for implementing new SP Gigarouter switches.
• Leveraged state of the art networking protocols on the SP switch to dynamically route traffic in and out of the SP complex.
• Supported infrastructures residing on both the Intranet and Internet leveraging Network Dispatcher (web request prioritization), HACMP (High Availability Cluster) and ATM network connectivity.

Provide lead consulting services for implementation of a corporate wide logistics and facility scheduling system. Responsibilities included planning, implementing and maintaining an AIX/SP configuration running DB2 and DCE/DFS services. The package installed was a SAP-like configuration approach to manage a 3-tier architecture.

Client/Server DBA and Systems Administrator for technology enablement at the new Pittsburgh International Airport. Technology used OS/2 and DB2.