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Professional Services Director with over sixteen years of experience working in IT, software development, and AI technologies. I currently do independent consulting in the AI/Cloud space with my company 2am Consulting.I managed the Ex Machina Services program at C3. C3 offers PaaS and SaaS solutions to rapidly develop applications in AI, big data, IoT and predictive analytics. I'm there to make sure our customers successfully turn their ideas into reality while using the C3 platform. I also led various AI programs for customers at C3 AI- constructing Centers of Excellence, managing customer projects, and working with leadership to get the most out of the C3 AI Application Suite.Before that, I spent the past four years at Narrative Science, the leader in advanced Natural Language Generation. NS' products take the world's data and turns it into insightful narratives that anyone can understand. I've managed both client projects and new platform development as we continued to both expand the technology as well as the engineers developing it.Previously, I spent about a decade as a manager working within Infrastructure Strategy for Accenture Technology Consulting. I worked on early stage cloud computing initiatives, performing IT cost and technological analyses to determine how best to leverage cloud computing in the enterprise. For my first five years with Accenture I worked for the Accenture Technology Labs helping numerous clients achieve superior business results with new and innovative technologies. I mainly focused in data center innovations, acting as a technology evangelist for clients interested in virtualization and cloud computing, and how they could fit in their current architectures.Specialties: Innovation; Agile (Scrum; Kanban); Project Management (Jira, Confluence, Aha! ProductPlan); Public Cloud Technologies (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, RackSpace, Salesforce); Private Cloud/Virtualization Technologies (VMware, Xen); Infrastructure Management (BMC, CA, HP, IBM, etc) Data Center Consolidation & Migration; Storage Platforms (EMC, NetApp, IBM), IT Cost Analysis, Infrastructure Strategy

Listed skills include Cloud Computing, Data Center, Virtualization, Business Intelligence, and 22 others.

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  University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Computer Engineering, Business Administration