I led Cognizant’s 1st Global Distinguished Architect Group. For the past 4 years, as a Chief Architect, I have been in a global leadership role of Architects and Engineers. I design and lead strategic transformation programs. I am customer billable to Fortune 500 customers and Account Team Support for Technology Leadership & Contract Development.

I am responsible for Cognizant's North America IDE Digital Architecture and DevSecOps Communities. My team delivers Technology Solutions to all Fortune 500 Organizations .

Design, develop and implement technology Architectures and deliver solutions. Best practices of Cloud and DevOps Architecture. Collaboration with senior executives and contribute to planning and execution. Manage and nurture the client relationships. Develop, assess and validate a client’s business strategy (including industry and competitive positioning and strategic direction). Estimate scope, challenges and define the risk mitigation challenges pertaining to the delivery of solutions.

Customer Success & Managed Services Delivery, Americas Lead Globally, I am responsible for the Customer Success Framework and Customer Journey In the Americas, I am responsible for Cyber Security Customer Success and Service Delivery; inclusive of Customer Strategy, Governance, Deliverables, Milestones, Escalations, and Scalability. I lead Cyber Security MS implementations inclusive of PCI SSC and NIST 1800 & 800 Compliance. CyberProof, a company of UST Global, provides an intelligent Cyber Security SOAR platform as a Managed Service. DX (Digital Transformation) is an opportunity for systems convergence: Devices (IoT) + Intelligence (AI+ML), Data (CRM+) and Engagement (Omni Communications). Define — Measure — Learn

For 10 years; organization, development & leadership of 8 different Engineering and Solution Delivery teams (Advisory, AI/Machine Learning, IaaS & SaaS, SD-WAN, SDN/NFV, Agile CI/CD, DevOps, Cisco UCS & Cisco Nexus, VCE Vblock™, Cisco Cloud Solutions (MetaCloud, NewScale, Meraki, Cloupia & Tidal), Cisco Cloud-10 hybrid platform, Managed Services, Cisco VMS (virtualization), Operations Enablement and the Tier 1 Telco Solutions & Strategy groups. The start-up teams required new orgs & product dev to enable the transformation of orgs, revenue, skills, tools, methodologies, portfolios and communications. Head of Strategy, Asia Pacific, India, NZ & Australia / Global Solutions 2015 – 2018As Head of Strategy, I engaged with customer leadership as a Consultative enabler for Transformation. Lifecycle solutions were built by the customer and for the customer. Results were technology product and process innovation. Cloud Platforms, AI/Machine Learning, Blockchain, Containers, Software & Hardware disaggregation.In 2016, relocate to Singapore to lead Cisco’s Strategy & Transformation initiatives (Solution Dev, Service Delivery, Business Dev & Support) in Asia, India and Australia. My primary work was with Telecoms to build innovative Cloud platforms. I worked with AU Telstra, Japan NTT and India Reliance to develop NoOps for Infrastructure Mgt, AIOps for Support Centers and DevSecOps for developing aaS Solutions. Transformation = Simplify, Automate, Improve, Metric & Innovate at Scale. In 2015, relocated to Sydney, AU to lead Telstra & NBN to build & deploy VMS (virtualization) Cloud platform. My responsibilities were to lead the Software DevOps CI/CD architecture design and education, CxO customer management, Agile program office, Operations SME, org transformation and the federation of Sales, Software Engineering, NFV Solution dev & delivery.

I assembled a virtual team to build the Cisco Private/Hybrid Cloud with DevOps and Agile principles. The Cloud Solution delivers an outcomes based, hybrid Cloud solution. This cross-org team (delivering $2-3B in FY15) of the Cisco Managed Services and Cloud & IT Transformation teams. CMS is responsible for Cisco's Inter-Cloud/Nimbus/MetaCloud Solutions and Cloud & IT Transformation has global responsibility for Cisco's Operations, Unified Infrastructure, Automation, Cloud Consumption, ITSM/DevOps, Application Platform, Analytics & Software Orchestration.

I was responsible to build and lead the Cisco Global DC/Cloud Services for Operations Enablement & DevOps team. My responsibilities were to develop the Global Sales GTM, Sales Leadership messaging, Solutions Portfolio & Solutions delivery. Our Operations Enablement team led customers to develop Operational Solutions, build ITSM models, build People, Tools & Process guidance as well as enable Day 2 Operations and Managed Services.This "first of its kind" Cisco team enabled customers to completely transform their IT Operations. The portfolio & team of SMEs accelerated & maximized Operational efficiencies which realized substantial OpEx & CapEx reductions. --> Transformation of Managed Services, Cloud, Applications, SDN and Support Organizations.The Operations Enablement team is product agnostic contributor to revenue in the Americas, Europe, Emerging Markets & Asia Pacific.

I organized and led a startup team of Engagement & Program Managers to build core Data Center Advanced Services delivery. Support Service Provider, Commercial & Enterprise valued at $150M annually. Led the delivery of Cisco state of the art data center services; integrated cloud solutions, and orchestration of network, security, storage, compute, and applications. Core member of leadership team that developed UCS architectures, portfolio, scopes of work, and scalable framework. • Developed and delivered global Vblock™ training to Cisco, EMC and VMware teams on how to design, deliver, and support cloud solutions with integrated technologies (Vblock™).• Led the development of a new delivery framework for Cisco AS and within four weeks, a comprehensive program delivery and cloud delivery framework began global implementation.• Developed and implemented the PMO mentoring framework, a four phased approach to PM resource development.

Co-led the collaboration of Cisco, EMC and VMWare to create the VCE/Acadia Sales & Services leadership team. I led the creation of the initial VCE Solution portfolio, the 1st BETA implementation, the 1st vBlock customer production implementation and the 1st global vBlock training for Cisco & EMC architects.Acadia / VCE Coalition - Cisco, VMWare, & EMCUCS - Unified Computing System Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Stateless Computing, DC Specialist

Joined the start-up Nuova/Cisco leadership team for Project California (UCS). I led the UCS Solution product engineering, GTM, delivery portfolio and methodology development. I led the global UCS customer Betas and first production Cisco UCS customers. I realized a passion to inspire a world class UCS delivery team and enable our customers to quickly realize the benefits of Cisco Data Center capabilities.

I was responsible for the P&L for Sales GTM, Sales teams, Solutions development and Solutions delivery teams. TIG (22-branch/$350m MBE IT integrator) core focus is virtualization, storage, security & networking. Partnerships with Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, Dell, EMC and Hitachi. In the initial 6-months of FY08, my team exceeded the FY08 sales quota.

I led the Sales GTM & Solutions delivery teams. Within the 1st 6-months, we built an industry recognized and unprecedented Sales GTM & Delivery PMO. CompServ ($100m IT integrator) provided project-based solutions for virtualization, storage, networking, security and VoIP. Partnerships with Microsoft, IBM, Citrix, VMware, Cisco and Symantec. Tampa Biz Journal recognized my 2006 team as the #1 Florida Systems Integrator. CEO passed away and CompServ assets were sold.

As a Sales Engineering Sr. Manager, I was responsible for Engineers/Consultants who supported $30m of product quota. As a Consulting Services Manager, I led teams in North America, EMEA & APAC. My teams delivered lifecycle enterprise projects which spanned multiple continents.

Clarify Software development & customization. I supported & led teams in the development, implementation and support of the Clarify eFrontOffice CRM Suite. The eFrontOffice suite operated on Sybase, Oracle and SQL database platforms on the UNIX and Microsoft OS'. I obtained the Clarify Certified Developer status in Nov 2000. Nortel sold Clarify division to Amdocs 6-months after I joined.

Directly responsible for 125 contractors & 18 Technical Consultants. I was responsible for customer delivery, internal technical development and sales support of 15 account managers and 18 recruiters. As “C4” certified (subset of PMI), the programs which I implemented realized an annual GP growth of >$3m and >$1.5m of Service revenue. In 1999, the Tampa office had net revenue of $4m and 195 contractors. Aerotek had revenue of $3.5b and 200+ offices throughout the US, Canada and UK.

Responsible for corporate technology and support of 35-resorts. Technology and Automation solutions for the hospitality industry.

Focused on healthcare solutions in the SE U.S.; Consulting, PM, training, software & hardware product and support for healthcare facilities. I led an unfunded startup technology company to 30 employees and >$30m in annual revenue.

USN & USNR Federal Employee, GS-11