Cloud Architect at Dell's Chief Technology and Innovation OfficeCollaborate with Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Sales teams across the company to develop new product and service offerings.Perform proof of concepts and prototypes to jumpstart teams in creating new lines of business.Inventor of multiple new technologies and tools.

Led the Cloud Engineering team to bring Dell EMC storage products to the public cloud providers including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Launched Dell's first storage product in the Public Cloud, PowerScale for Google Cloud.Worked with customers to help build and architect cloud storage solutions that offer extreme scale and performance and address key challenges.Also contributed in a hands on capacity to architect a template network design to support multi-tenant cloud environments that can be easily applied to multiple different sites.

As part of the merger and a promotion from previous position at EMC, lead the Performance and Quality Engineering test strategy for the Virtustream Storage Cloud.Virtustream is one of the Dell EMC owned federated companies that offers an S3 compatible cloud object storage platform, and cloud management software to move existing mission-critical and production applications to the cloud.• Lead team of performance and quality engineers to develop test plans and perform stress testing of cloud storage, compute, monitoring metrics, and billing • Responsible for driving performance engineering for S3, ECS, Atmos, Cassandra, Kafka, and MLX• Drive the Performance and Quality Engineering strategy by integrating with development teams located across the world early on in the software development process• Transform test suites requiring Quality Engineering team intervention into a self-service model by utilizing Rancher catalogs and running test suites in Docker containers• Replace traditional load testing software with cloud native containers• Automate builds of Docker images using TeamCity and Artifactory• Setup automated TeamCity CICD pipelines integrated with Github for new development teams• Redesigned and implemented new lab network infrastructure to create several micro labs and allow for build out of Virtustream Enterprise Labs and customer proof of concept environments• Leverage RackHD to automate bare metal hardware provisioning of compute and storage for lab test beds• Lead durability testing of distributed systems to prevent data loss and ensure SLAs are met• Host team scrum calls and utilize Jira to track team tasks

Lead Cloud Engineer on the Quality Engineering team for Project Beatle, largest cloud storage deployment in the history of EMC. • Graduate of the EMC Global Services Associate Program and earned EMC Proven Professional (ISM Certification) • Performed certification on over 1 Exabyte of production storage before releasing to the customer• Lead project to relocate and rebuild Lab environment (consisting of 45+ Network/Compute/Storage racks) from the ground up across the US with zero downtime• Developed automation to deploy EMC Locust with Grafana and Influx inside Virtual Machines (VMware and Openstack) using Salt Cloud and Terraform• Developed Locust management suite using Fabric and Python to automate performance test stand up and tear down• Developed Slackbot to automatically report real-time status of performance testing• Conducted performance testing of EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) that resulted in several performance enhancements• Tested several Atmos Hotfixes and Upgrades in lab environment before turning over to the production team for deployment• Performed several Atmos and ECS cluster Object Storage Installations• Utilized Salt to assist in managing physical and virtual servers running Linux• Managed VMware and Openstack compute environments• Deployed Zabbix to monitor health and status of lab infrastructure

• Leveraged new and existing Customer/Partner relationships to grow the business• Contributed to sales team in pre-sales capacity to demonstrate iQ3 product and architected pilots and production solutions• Built elder care solution that offers WiFi and emergency pendants to residents of assisted living communities, utilizing a monthly reoccurring revenue model• Led the customer implementation team to bring clients online for both Cloud and On-Premise solutions• Oversaw the implementation of iQ3 and RFCode product customizations for customers• Continuously improved processes and selection of hardware to reduce the barrier to entry of the company's SaaS product offerings• Monitored trends in the sensor & RF industry and evaluated new technology to stay ahead of competitors

• Led inventory reconciliation process for Aftermarket acquisitions with a value of $80+ million in order to consolidate newly Acquired companies into Sikorsky's SAP System• Developed process to automatically track shipments using RFID and trained employees• Updated Procurement dashboard to better track Supply and Demand data using C# and SQL• Utilized Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Project to meet/exceed project deadlines

• HR Information Systems Specialist for Division• Automated HR processes with the use of MyWorkflow and SQL• HR report expert for ad-hoc requests and monthly headcount reports using Microsoft Access and Business Objects Webi

• IT - Business ApplicationsSAP SRM Implementation Team• Human Resources – Talent CenterAutomated HR reports and launched Learning & Development website• Center of ExcellenceAssisted with employee survey analysis