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Spring Semester 2023 - University of Oregon (January-July)Spring Semester 2021 - University of California at Davis (March-August)Spring Semester 2020 - University of Denver (March-September)The 6-month Cybersecurity Bootcamp program that I teach includes: Governance/Risk/Compliance, Linux Fundamentals, Linux/Windows administration/hardening, Cloud Computing, Network Security, Threat modeling, IDS/IPS/SIEM, Cryptography, Vulnerability Scanning/PenTesting, Digital Forensics, and more.

Delinea creates software solutions for Privileged Access Management, along with Endpoint and Server privilege elevation and delegation efforts to enhance an organization’s security posture, which ultimately leads to a Zero Trust architecture. As a Senior Sales Engineer, I support and collaborate with Account Executives, secure technical win on sales opportunities, and provide competitive analysis with regards to other PAM solutions. I also perform product demos, presentations, lead technical discussions, best practice assessments, respond to RFPs, and provide technical guidance during discovery engagements. As a veteran sales engineer, I also contribute to establish and refine best practices standards among technical sellers, and interfacing with customers from individual contributors up to C-Suite executives.

Contracted to help establish automation and build standards for IaaS deployment on Microsoft Azure, and unifying efforts across AWS and VMware to coincide. #Azure #Ansible #AnsibleTower #CentOS #Windows

Thousands of small and medium-sized businesses depend on NexusTek to manage and optimize their IT and cloud environments for business continuity, productivity, operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. With an all-encompassing services portfolio, infrastructure, high-touch personal attention and IT consulting expertise, NexusTek delivers true end-to-end, outsourced IT management to organizations nationwide. An SSAE 16 SOC II certified company, NexusTek designs problem solving and efficiency-minded IT solutions that bring together storage, virtualization, unified communications and collaboration, data protection and networking technologies from the world’s foremost technology leaders. NexusTek Cloud Services offer the flexibility and control businesses need to be agile, and can address customers’ unique cyber security, business continuity, compliance and auditing requirements in cloud, hybrid or on-premise environments. NexusTek is ranked as a top Managed Services Provider in North America on the MSPmentor 501 List, is a CRN MSP Elite 150 list member and award-winning Microsoft Gold Partner. Unfettered visibility, 24 x 7 x 365 monitoring, management and a true 24 hour staffed helpdesk, coupled with its comprehensive solutions portfolio and more than 22 years’ experience, empower NexusTek to deliver better services to customers, regardless of how their needs change. For additional information, please visit https://www.nexustek.com.

Engineer in Ardent Mills’ Cloud Services organization insourcing Cloud/Windows support for the company. Design, support, and management of Microsoft Azure cloud resources for the company. Architectural planning, review/re-establishment of corporate standards, change control, Active Directory, SCOM, SCCM.

Account SE for major Denver-area Healthcare organizations, charged with leading technical initiatives to drive business results for our clients. Covering ALL Dell Technologies portfolio including storage (EMC), networking (Dell Open Networks, Pluribus, VMware NSX), security (RSA, Secure Works), software development (Pivotal), Virtualization (VMware), infrastructure (Vblock, vxRail, vxRACK), and Cloud (VRA).

Lead Solutions Engineer for CenturyLink Channel Alliance and Colo/Hosting/Cloud SME for Central Sales Region. Product portfolio includes traditional Telco offerings, Hosted VoIP, SIP, Metro Ethernet, MPLS, BGP. Hosting portfolio includes Managed Hosts, Dedicated Private Cloud, Public Cloud, VMware, DCI network access.

Joined AlchemyAPI in September of 2014, as Senior Sales Executive, which included various sales related tasks such as lead generation, go-to-market strategy, contract negotiation, account development. Now part of the IBM Watson group.

Solutions Architect for IBM PureFlex in the Rockies. Customer-facing product ambassador to IBM business partners. Provided hands-on technical assistance. NDA briefings, Pre-sales technical presentations,Business Partner pre/post-sales supportRFI/RFP responderPublic speaking engagementsPureFlex / Flex SystemFlex System Manager / IBM System DirectorStorwise / Flex System V7000SmartCloud EntryCloud ComputiungConverged Infrastructure

Storage Solutions Architect for the Rockies and PAC NW, specializing in SAN solutions and systems management. Primary focus on: IBM System Director 6.2 / 6.3IBM Storwise V7000IBM SONAS

As a Principal Storage Architect for Comcast (NETO), I managed approximately 8 Petabytes of data across 9 datacenters nationwide. My role was specifically around Storage Metrics and SRM solutions, where I evaluated many of the current SRM tools on the market to assess their viability for use in the Comcast environment.The storage hardware was a mix of EMC, NetApp, HDS, and HP storage primarily, with Brocade and Cisco SAN switching throughout. Comcast utilized HP Storage Essentials, but over the course of my time there, I was asked to evaluate NetApp SanScreen, SolarWinds, and EMC ECC among many other products. Additional duties involved:Storage planning and purchasingChange control Storage allocationsStorage request administration (using Jira as a ticketing system)Monthly storage utilization and performance presentations to upper managementDeployment of a test environment for building storage use-case scenariosMy efforts yielded approximated 33% savings in storage spending for FY2011.

Provided pre-sales technical engineering support for the General/Commercial district in Chicago, focusing on the Veritas brand products during the merger with Symantec. Duties included: Technical Sales PresentationsTechnical Validation of Sales QuotesResponse to RFP/RFI requestsCustomer Lunch and Learn sessionsPublic speaking engagements at vendor sponsored seminars and symposiums.Subject Matter Expert in Storage Management, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Replication.Was also in charge of the build-out and ongoing maintenance of the Oakbrook Sales Demo Lab at Symantec.Additional products supported: Veritas NetBackup / PureDiskSymantec Endpoint ProtectionSymantec BackupExecSymantec Live State Recovery / BackupExec System RecoverySymantec AltirisVeritas Command CentralRelacoreSymantec Intrusion Detection ServiceSymantec Control Compliance SuiteEnterprise Vault / Discovery Accelerator / Compliance AcceleratorApplication Performance Management (APM)Charter Member of the Storage Aces, an elite organization of 20 Veritas SMEs around North America that met quarterly with Product Management to convey customer opinions, best practices, and insight into product roadmaps.

Taught many Instructor-Led courses for Veritas Educational Services, including: Veritas Cluster Server for UnixVeritas Cluster File SystemVeritas Cluster Server for WindowsVeritas Storage Foundation for UnixVeritas Volume Manager for WindowsVeritas Storage Foundation / HA / DR for UnixVeritas Storage Foundation / HA/ DR for WindowsVeritas Storage Foundation Database Edition (Unix)Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RACVeritas Global Cluster ManagerVeritas Volume ReplicatorAdditional responsibilities included the hardware and software deployment of the VES Mobile Labs for use in onsite education classes, as well as Jumpstart technologies to refresh both mobile and facility labs at the end of each week.

Professional Services consultant for Veritas Software's Enterprise Consulting Services organization.Installation and Configuration services for the following:Veritas Cluster ServerVeritas Volume ManagerVeritas Storage FoundationVeritas Storage Foundation/HA/DRVeritas Global Cluster ManagerVeritas Volume ReplicatorVeritas Storage Foundation for OracleVeritas Storage Foundation Database EditionVeritas NetBackupIn addition, I wrote many custom agents for Veritas Cluster Server, some of which later became part of the core 'bundled agents' for subsequent versions of VCS. Most of these were written in KSH and Perl.

Configuration Management and Application Development Administrator for ABN-AMRO's Foreign Exchange and Money Market sectors.Duties included: Administration of several test environmentsConsolidation from 16 environments down to 4 full-size, production mirrored systemsApplication / Patch roll outSupervision of UAT testingChange ControlProduction DR planning and readinessSoftware Version Control (Rational Clear Case)

Provided technical support for the Veritas Foundation Suite products on Solaris, and other Unix variants. Later supporting Veritas Cluster Server when it was released on Solaris and Windows.Other responsibilities included QA testing, End-User Licence Key fulfillment, and beta testing for the new Vantive call-center system that was being deployed in 1997.