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San Jose, CA, US

New York, NY, US

Supporting the US West sales team as a pre-sales engineer and Solution Architect. Joined at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and helped sales rapidly acquire marquee logos in an uncertain work environment, and with an evolving cloud product and business model. As an expert in CockroachDB and customer advocate, I helped customers learn about CockroachDB.

San Mateo, California, US

I worked closely with Ople prospects and customers in problem formulation, data selection, data preparation, and ML model interpretation. I employed a variety of data science tools, including Python, Pandas, Jupyter, Scikit-Learn, and the Ople.ai Platform.Reporting to the COO as a member of the Ople executive team, I was responsible globally for leading.

San Francisco, CA, US

Joined the Databricks Field Engineering team supporting the West region’s velocity territory as a Technical Solution Architect. Our mission: to rapidly acquire new customers by delivering deep technical expertise in Big Data and Machine Learning to solve real customer business problems.Assisted customers in deploying Data Engineering and Machine Learning.

Redwood City, California, US

Joined MariaDB through the Clustrix acquisition.Served as the Director of the North America Sales Engineering & Professional Services teams, reporting to the VP of Customer Success, while helping MariaDB integrate the ClustrixDB acquisition and enabling the MariaDB sales force to sell ClustrixDB.Products covered by our team:- MariaDB Server (Leading Open.

Redwood City, California, US

Clustrix Inc. was acquired by MariaDB Corporation in Sep 2018.Hired by the CEO as the sole Sales Engineer, and rapidly assessed and re-defined the technical sales processes at Clustrix.Hired and trained the SE team on:- ClustrixDB product concepts and competitors- Technical positioning, discovery and objection handling- POC project planning (what to do.

Hired by the CEO & CTO as the first Sales Engineer/Director, and to build out & lead the technical sales team. Additionally took ownership of critical areas in Product Management, Sales leadership, and general business operations which resulted in my promotion to Vice President.Accomplishments:- Identified the ideal customer profile (ICP) given the.

San Mateo, CA, US

Hired by the CEO as the 1st Sales Engineer/Director to bootstrap, build & lead the Sales Engineering team.Most Proud of:* Hired an awesome SE team, and made their success my top priority* Secured the first 10 paying customers within 6 months of initial product GA- - Including first 2 pre-GA super-reference customers- - The 1st East Coast, Fin Svcs, $1M+.

Brought in by the VP of Worldwide Sales & Channels to build a scalable technical selling team, and advise the company on a product strategy designed to target large enterprise accounts.Accomplishments:- Strategized, and planned the sales approach & methodology with the VP WW Sales & Channels- Advised Engineering on the critical feature set necessary for.

Supported all ParAccel organizations as a Consulting Engineer in a strategic role through the creation of materials, tools, knowledge reuse, training, white papers, demos, and internal & external processes. Reported to the ParAccel Worldwide Sales management team. Managed the technical relationships with ParAccel's Strategic Partners. Facilitated.

Member of the technical pre-sales engineering team at Aster Data.* Presented the Aster Data nCluster technical architecture to prospects, focusing on Advanced Analytics* Executed prospect/customer PoCs including the installation, configuration, and tuning of nCluster hardware & software* Diagnosed and resolved performance issues in customer PoCs*.

Austin, Texas, US

Oracle Grid Platform product specialist. Functioned as a field sales consultant supporting the nationwide sales organization.* Educated customers on Grid Computing best practices, architectures, and software development techniques* Assisted customers in evaluating and deploying Oracle technology* Trained Sales Consultants and Sales Account Managers on an.

Austin, Texas, US

Oracle Consulting Services (OCS) Oracle Advanced Programs Group (APG)* Oracle database technology implementation consultant & DBA* Specialized in Very-Large DBs, Oracle RAC, and High-Performance Oracle database implementation.* J2EE and core Java developer* Project lead and senior consultant responsible for training & mentoring junior consultants*.

Randolph AFB, TX, US

Active duty. Separated at the rank of Captain (O-3).Primary Duty Assignment:Peacekeeper ICBM Combat Crew CommanderAdditional Duty Assignments:* Operations Crew Training Instructor* Computer-based Training (CBT) developer* Unit Computer Security Officer

M.S., Computer Science

Basic Officer Training & Commissioning

B.S., Aviation Technology W/ Minor In Computer Science

A.S., Avionics Engineering Technology