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Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

New York, NY, US

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I helped a startup learn to grow and operationalize Neo4j in GKE Kubernetes, Creating Kubernetes services for backup, recovery, updates, and growth and developing advanced Helm charts to better automate DevOps and adding a database migration tool to capture changes and drift in the database schemas between environments and reviewing queries and schema.

San Mateo, CA, US

Currently thriving as a Pre-Sales Graph Database Engineer with Neo4j in the vibrant Pacific Northwest, I am an integral part of a dedicated pre-sales team renowned for its track record of success. In this multifaceted role, I engage in a comprehensive journey with our clients, guiding them from their initial inquiry through discovery, enablement, and proof.

Palo Alto, CA, US

VMware Pulse was a startup product team inside. Pulse was a new concept in device management for IoT applications. In that, it was neutral to hardware and software, focusing solely on the device management aspect and not with the data ingest aspect.My primary roles were pre-sales technical activities, including initial presentations, discovery, follow-up.

Redmond, Washington, US

IoT Ecosystem team is responsible for engaging with OEM, SI, SA, ISV and other partners globally to deliver embedded, client-server experiences based on Microsoft, Azure and Open Source technologies that drive cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Work with emerging technologies, sensors, processors and cloud services to orchestrate end-to-end.

Redmond, Washington, US

OEM/SA/SI Enablement – Worked on assigned global OEM/SI/SA accounts helping these partners become better cloud-enabled and to help discover, plan, POC, build and deliver fast-track projects. I have provided on-site and virtual cloud education to internal teams who need to understand and make the pivot from traditional solutions to deploying modern cloud.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Was invited to transition from my previous successful role into being more focused on open source analytics products, like Hadoop and Spark fit into the emerging IBM Bluemix cloud ecosystem. Workered with data engineers and data scientists to help them better understand the IBM offerings and how they may fit-replace "legacy" tools like Netezza and Cognos.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Joined IBM as a Cloudant NoSQL database global team member covering Pacific Northwest and surrounding territories, subsequent reorganization saw the job role expand to include the entire cloud data services portfolio (DB2, dashDB, and others) for the West coast and created several new, unique demonstrations, presentations, lunch-and-learns to highlight the.

Arlington, VA, US

Boeing initiated a large, enterprise-wide project to convert many aspects of IT to “as a Service” in 2013. My Oracle knowledge, end-to-end infrastructure hardware skills (server, network, storage, OS) and virtualization skills (VMWare), earned me the lead architect role for the DBaaS project. I researched and authored the business case to treat this as a.

Arlington, VA, US

Technical lead for the team responsible for 55% of Oracle databases for all of Boeing – totaling around ~18000 instances and ~10 PB’s of storage. A mixture of hardware and operating systems, a wide span of Oracle versions and mixture database deployment models – RAC, Stand-Alone, Data Guard, and Golden Gate. Support was 365/24/7 and as the technical lead.

Mclean, VA, US

TRAVELOCITY.COM - Part of team building a new data center from scratch. Historically has outsourced data center operations and is bringing it all in-house, they needed people who have done this before. Reviewed proposed design, made several infrastructure changes to eliminate points of failure and bottlenecks. Used Golden Gate to replicate existing.

Large US Steel Mill - Designed and deployed the database-tier for the multi-vendor MES system – the backbone of a $6.6B steel mill recently built near Mobile. Recommended Oracle Standard Edition and Quest FogLight; this saved millions in license and support costs over a five (5) year period while yielding a 100% HA solution. Setup PXE/Kickstart/YUM for.

Virginia Beach, VA, US

Worked many projects for Mythics, I include this one as showcase project (and Mythics still does).Martin County Florida - Extended RAC (2 Mile)Martin County needed a cost effective high availability and disaster recovery solution. Original design was a 4-Node at primary and another 4-Node at remote. Discovery revealed dark fiber had already been run.

Round Rock, Texas, US

Worked many customer projects for Dell, PSS World Medical Project is a notable one to share.Customer outgrown their data warehouse (DW)/business intelligence (BI) system. Desired a Linux/RAC solution around Dell blade servers and existing HP EVA storage. A number of show stopping blade, network and storage issues required multiple vendor assistance to.

• New data center build out in Tokyo managing a team of ~40 people as direct reports and a dozen Azora resources. Supported all production, test and development Oracle projects. Supported SAP G/L, SAP BASEL2, Golden.
• Managed multi-national DBA team supporting +150 database servers and +2000 databases
• Created Japanese/English run books for all databases
• Oracle/EMC technologies such as SRDF and BCV, mirrors and snaps in relation to ASM
• EMC software products for virtual tape backup and compliance archival storage (Legato)
• 10 domains, 3 languages and multiple countries Oracle Collaboration Suite (Beehive)

Austin, Texas, US

• Began as a database pre-sales consultant covering strategic accounts in the Northwest. Very skilled at helping customers understand the database and core technology stack; helped design, sell and delivery solutions..
• Acknowledged RAC and Linux expert
• Answered RFI/RFPs and Recommended Infrastructure Architecture
• Installations, Benchmarking and Proof of Concepts
• Supported sales teams in existing opportunities and an ability to uncover and create additional opportunity
• Excellent Demonstration and Presentation Skills

As, Graphic Arts, Computer Science

High School Diploma, College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program