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Minneapolis, MN, US

Santa Clara, California, US

Mountain View, California, US

Event streaming using Kafka and Confluent. Consultative expertise in data mobility, integration, and event stream processing.

Raleigh, NC, US

Expert across Red Hat portfolio includes RHEL, Openshift Kubernetes, and Ansible.

Monroe, LA, US

Develop partnerships and integrate technology between complementary Software and Services organizations and the CenturyLink Cloud.Today I will drive an increase in cloud revenue by augmenting the core CenturyLink Cloud platform offering with these innovative software and services integrations. Success = Partners + Integration + Developer EngagementHybrid.

Monroe, LA, US

**PRE-SALES CLOUD SOLUTION ARCHITECT** Customer facing SME successfully conveying the culture + value within the CenturyLink Cloud product IaaS/PaaS offering. Within a startup embedded inside the greater CenturyLink org. act as a primary agent identifying and communicating the highly Agile and innovative culture that developed the vision, product roadmap.

Monroe, LA, US

• Pre-sales Engineer delivering consultative solutions drawing from across the entire CenturyLink portfolio (cloud, hosting, colocation, security, network, consulting). Successful lead Sales and Solution Engineer for the.
• Deliver engaging presentations to C-level executives, directors, decision makers, and technical groups
• Drive sales as part of a global sales consulting team; identify client business, technical, and process requirements, uncover unique client requirements, and design efficient, effective solutions
• Contribute to every aspect of client solution, including product management, product engineering, product development, legal, procurement, finance, and service readiness
• Architect and document complex technical solutions using standard and custom product sets including network, hosting, colocation, and professional services components. Advise client on alternate technical strategies.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge regarding applications and vendors within the industry

Dublin 2, IE

• Experience with cross-industry (e-commerce, telecommunications, and insurance) and cross-product (Microsoft, Unix, J2EE, custom) enterprise technology solutions.
• Identified technical solutions necessary to meet client requirements for performance, availability, security, regulatory compliance, and operating costs.
• Streamlined hosted product offerings for effective client presentations and detailed technical discussions. Reduced FTE requirements to support environments lowering the run costs for the client and allowing Accenture.
• Ultimately responsible for operational success, supportability, and cost of designed solutions until deployed environments are fully in-use and accepted.
• Managed team of technology architects responsible for investigating and defining technical standards and strategy.
• Resolved communication breakdowns between business and technically focused experts then provided mentoring for technical staff to increase communication throughout the design, build, and run process.

Dublin 2, IE

• Overall delivery lead responsible for implementing quality IT business process outsourcing solutions. Managed solution architecture, budgets, and timelines by rigorously defining otherwise project scopes, timeframes.
• Program lead for newly developed custom product aimed for multi-customer deployment. Managed build with development, infrastructure, and application teams. Developed process to decrease defects and effort required for.
• Successfully managed full cycle SAS70 audits for clients whose environments were not architected for auditability or separation of privileges. Guided all subsequent initiatives to achieve SAS70 and PCI compliance.
• Managed work queue for highly leveraged technical team. Increased team communication with internal clients and reduced uncertainty about their ability to deliver. Significantly increased number of successfully.
• Led Tiger team to quickly resolve critical issues for troubled projects. Took ownership of short term issues. For longer duration efforts, took over management, re-built project teams, and provided leadership for.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Supported global Solaris and Linux environments hosting both legacy and newly developed outsourced applications for external clients. Where documentation or other institutional knowledge was non-existent, built.
• Designed and maintained rapid deployment toolkits for web servers. Eliminated local backup requirements for web servers and decreased time to deploy from bare-metal to 15 minutes.
• Led initiatives to identify poor performing internal tools and to identify gaps that made support more difficult. Successfully developed high-quality tools for monitoring server security, server, performance, and a.
• Supported inexperienced clients by troubleshooting and resolving problem situations over the phone under tight deadlines as part of a demanding international on-call rotation.

Washington, DC, US

• Supported mail, firewall, web proxy, and other infrastructure services in a high availability environment. Built disaster recovery site and performed full tests once yearly.
• Developed extensive array of tools to audit servers and notify staff of adverse security or performance events. Identified and reacted to simulated intrusions within minutes.
• Deployed and maintained secure voice bridge and secure phones; obtained TS/SCI.

Northfield, MN, US

• Designed, implemented, and managed departmental databases
• Programmed in PHP and Perl for system scripting and web backends
• Built, maintained, and troubleshot servers and related networking

Mba

Computer Science, Computer Science, Economics