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Austin, Texas, Us

Responsible for strategic technical ventures within Oracle's North American Cloud Infrastructure Engineering. Leading a matrix team of specialists to design and implement secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions for cloud-native and ISV customers. Drive innovative cloud architectures to accelerate successful deployments for key clients, leveraging IaaS, PaaS, GPUaaS, AI/ML, HPC and DBaaS to achieve significant cost savings and business value.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Product management leader responsible for the vision, strategy, pricing, competitive positioning, and go-to-market of Cisco's cloud-native portfolio of products. Led and coached a matrixed team of product managers, technical marketing engineers, and developers within the Cloud and Compute Business Unit. Key Achievements- Led the cross-functional engineering and go-to-market of cloud cost and resource optimization service - Led the partner alliance and integration of Red Hat OpenShift and HashiCorp Terraform- Launched a Kubernetes and container-native (Kubevirt) virtualization platform - Developed and fostered Kubernetes ISV partnerships for service discovery, security, and BU/DR

San Jose, Ca, Us

Product management leader responsible for Cisco's multi-cloud solutions and reference architectures for customers and partners. Managed the integration efforts necessary for Cisco’s Multicloud portfolio to be easily consumed, installed, and operated. Working across Cisco engineering to ensure a consistent, effective multi-cloud strategy. Key Achievements:- Launched multi-cloud solutions with alliance partners (AWS & Google) and Cisco's Kubernetes Platform - Defined solutions with AWS IAM and Cisco's Stealthwatch Cloud (Unified Threat Detection)- Led Cisco's telco & private cloud platform with Red Hat OpenStack for 5G/vRAN, vASA/NGFW, CSR1Kv

San Jose, Ca, Us

Responsible for driving the technical pre-sales vision and strategy of Cisco data center, networking, and security technologies for North America Service Provider and Media accounts. Focused on catching critical market transitions through customer collaboration, influencing product development, and aligning with senior executives. Led, coached, and developed a team of 65 architects, system engineers, and senior managers.Key Achievements• Defined technical sales strategy for $1B product sales quota—achieving 110% of goal in 2018.• Created an innovation center of excellence to showcase emerging technologies• Received Manager Excellence Award for the top 10% of management.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Drove technical sales enablement that aligned with customers' needs and business initiatives. Led a team of 25 systems engineers and managers to serve as trusted advisors to customers.Key Achievements• Defined technical sales strategy for data center, networking, and security products• Received Cisco Champions Award for the top 10% of sales.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Solved customer business problems by working cross-functionally within product engineering and sales to define and deploy solution architectures.Key Achievement• Architect and authored solution technical requirements for Comcast’s IP streaming media and cloud DVR service.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Authored technical design and deployment guides, problem resolution documents, and root cause analysis assessments for data center, networking, and security. A trusted advisor and technical expert for Tier 1 customers focusing on data center, networking, and security.

Telco, Core Networking, and High-speed Data Services

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Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

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Fundamentals Of Finance For The Technical Executive

Masters Of Engineering, Internetworking

Bachelor Of Science, Genetics (Honors)