Working alongside Regional Sales Directors in North America, leading technical pre-sales engineers for large and strategic prospective customers. Helping with hands-on customer evaluations and deployments, facilitating enterprise sales cycles.

Pre-sales solutions architect for IT Infrastructure designs featuring Cisco, EMC, HP, VMware, HP, and F5 products. Lead a team of highly experienced and skilled solutions architects across technology domains. Responsible for customer solution design, customer technology education, professional services quotes, and transitioning projects to implementation teams. Focus is on getting in front of the customer to help!

Created new line of business to augment managed services operations and to create recurring revenue. Offering application, backup, and VM hosting for small/medium businesses in South Texas. Developed multi-tenant hosting offerings around Microsoft communications products. Also served as pre-sales engineer on network infrastructure upgrades and deployments.

IT Infrastructure consulting, operations, and architecture services, primarily in San Antonio and Dallas Texas. Key customer projects included disaster recovery planning, data center design, storage virtualization design and implementation, business intelligence development, and go-to-market strategy development for cloud providers.

Senior leader in the IT department responsible for the operations of Networks, Data Centers, SAP, Disaster Recovery, and 24x7 IT Operations Support. Handpicked for every IT project that had a critical infrastructure component. Responsible for both capital and operating budgets annually.Highlights while at Tesoro include: Pipeline Control Center creation and technical integration. Refinery acquisitions. Development of Trading floor compute environment consisting of multiple markets, pricing feeds, and ERP integration. Launched 400-site PCI certified Retail Network. Designed, built, and moved to 23,000 square foot Data Center Facility. IT Lead on $250 million Corporate HQ construction, included LAN, WiFi, Diverse Telecom, and Digital Signage.

Assigned to the 92d Information Warfare Aggressor Squadron, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas. Executed full spectrum information operation aggressor activities against AF and joint forces through the replication of adversary capabilities and tactics. Conducted Information Operation-focused "Red Team" vulnerability assessments against DoD installations, networks and critical systems. Identified, reported and recommended solutions to known/found vulnerabilities. Lead engineer on Air Force site-to-site Virtual Private Network technology research, testing, and recommendation. Completed Air Force wide Windows 2000 security configuration guidelines after implementing a distributed multi-site proof of concept architecture. Conducted research and analysis on vulnerabilities associated with Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network protocol. Hand picked to participate in USAF Information Technology Summit, a landmark redesign of Air Force infrastructure and network communications services. Presented findings and recommendations to senior USAF leadership.