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Seattle, Wa, Us

Amazon Web Services, Inc. provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis. AWS powers many of the companies, websites, apps, and services you use today. As a Sr. Solution Architect I am a trusted advisors to our customers, helping them solve some of their largest business challenges by designing and advising from the C-Level to the developer workstation on some of the most scalable, flexible and resilient solutions in the world. I partner with customers early in their cloud journey at the highest leadership levels, work backwards from a desired outcome while fostering a culture of innovation to push technology boundaries and deliver beyond what they think is possible.I act as a builder and a thought leader who creates repeatable solutions, presents architecture, wrangles resources, and generates content to help customers scale and grow in non-linear ways, using AWS as their building blocks.

Palatine, Il, Us

William Rainey Harper College is a public community college in Palatine, Illinois serving over 35,000 credit and non-credit students a year. At Harper College, I develop curriculum and programs, train educators, motivate students and instruct classes, focused on Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, and Technology Careers.Impacts achieved at Harper College -- Partnered with Amazon Web Services and Harper College Continuing Education to implement AWS Academy for professional learners:- Developed course content including lecture, labs for AWS Solutions Architecture.- Executed outreach publicizing AWS Academy at Harper College driving up attendance and convincing in-role professionals to view Harper College as a professional training hub.- Sourced and facilitated the presence of industry expert guest speakers in AWS Academy classrooms.- Directly instructed multiple AWS Academy cohorts.Partnered with Dell and Intel via the AI for Workforce combined initiative to create and implement an Artificial Intelligence curriculum:- Engaged Harper College leadership through the Dean of Students, President of the College, and Board of Trustees to scale AI based curriculum college wide. - Course developer of AI Awareness, AI Foundations I, and AI Foundations II. - Directly instructed the first cohort of student’s through and AI Curriculum.- Developed training material and trained other Harper College instructors to deliver AI coursework.

San Jose, Ca, Us

PayPal's suite of products power payments for large platforms, small/medium business, and peers. Our networks fuel over 900B+ of Payment Volume per year. PayPal's Global Network Service organization builds the unified network that connects our cloud, datacenters, offices, partners, and customers. I am responsible for leading network strategy and execution for the Braintree Payments suite, as well as overall convergence and scale of Braintree branded payments within PayPal networks. Every time you pay for a Lyft or Uber ride, book a stay through Airbnb, reserve tickets with Fandango or Ticketmaster, or shop at most major retailers online, you’re likely using our networks. I spend every day working with awesome people, and leading world class engineers around the globe to make payments happen safely and reliably 24/7/365.Responsibilities include:- Guiding PayPal/Braintree multi-cloud and hybrid cloud (AWS, GCP) networking strategy- Driving operations, scale, and uptime of our on-premise and cloud environments, maintaining a 'five nine' SLA- Leading internal and external partnerships to implement new datacenter networks, backbone transit, and peering relationships, globally- Owning Infosec and Compliance (SOC, PCI) relationships and controls- Managing vendor relationships, procurement, and cost optimization for hardware, transit and facilities- Strategically preparing for incidents and tactically leading teams through networking incident remediations- Collaborating with crossfunctional teams to guide overall business unit merger and acquisition strategy and execution- Ideating and implementing the Braintree GNS Convergence Playbook; merging processes, finding optimizations, eliminating redundancies, and guiding teams to efficient, collaborative, post-merger operations- Creating a true culture of community where engineers Ask Why, Care A Lot, and always Solve Together- Hiring motivated engineers, and managers that love serving teams

San Jose, Ca, Us

PayPal is a world leader in Payments. I had the opportunity to take a dual role leading all Networking, Datacenter and Incident Coordination activities for Braintree Branded Products. This role required managing two a multi-regional teams in different disciplines, managing all PX/P0/P1 events, operating Post Mortem activities, presenting business critical information to VP/SVP/C-Level, and owning disaster recovery process and regulatory controls, while also keeping our global operations online during a year when our networks scaled from 300B to 936B of Payment Volume per year.Milestones achieved at PayPal:- Led teams to scale during our biggest year in company history- Grew team staff by 25% through direct hiring- Steered and drove partnership with PayPal SVP level Incident leadership to scale and transform all of BT Incident Management into PayPal Global SRE- Fully onboarded and ramped a new manager from PayPal Incident Management- Successfully transformed and transitioned all of BT incident staffing to new PayPal Incident Management structures.- Facilitated a promotion of our Incident Management Tech Lead- Owned and managed all major PX/P0/P1 Incidents within the Braintree Platform- Managed 24/7/365 triage, escalation, on-call, and emergency processes- Scaled and uplifted Post Mortem processes and remediation actions- Owned all disaster recovery, and compliance controls (SOC, PCI, etc) for Braintree Infrastructure- Scaled physical datacenters by 30% to meet growing customer demand- Project Managed the planning, solutions discovery, and execution of net new Cloud Native networking within Amazon Web Services- Spearheaded the long term migrations and transformation of multiple on premise payment partner peering relationships to cloud native methods.- Continuous member of hiring panel, facilitating hiring of all new Engineering Managers.Transformed and transitioned myself and my teams within Global SRE and Global Network Services in late Q2 2021.

Chicago, Il, Us

Braintree’s Payment Gateway and API suite powers some of the largest applications today. Every time you pay for a Lyft or Uber ride, book a stay through Airbnb, reserve tickets with Fandango or Ticketmaster, or pay with PayPal when you check out online, you’re probably using our product. I’ve had the tremendous opportunity to lead all Networking and Datacenter activities for Braintree. This includes managing a multi-regional team, loving our internal and external customers, guiding our networking roadmap, and keeping our global operations online. Our networks fuel tens of thousands of transactions per day and over 300B+ of Payment Volume per year. Milestones achieved at Braintree:- Rejuvenated a long unmanaged team, adding energy, gumption and encouragement to engineering staff and projects- Transformed staff culture, championing positive attitudes and drive to tackle hard challenges, while always caring for our customer- Established Braintree’s Network Roadmap and network planning processes- Led the Networking Team to ‘pave the roads’ of an organization wide Cloud Migration- Focused Tech Lead’s to deploy connectivity between physical datacenter and AWS regions that facilitated early application migrations - Organized the horizontal scaling of physical datacenter hardware, facilities, and utilities for current business needs- Optimized physical datacenter Operational Expenses, reducing costs by ~20% Braintree was acquired by PayPal and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary until 2020 when full brand and operations mergers completed

Chicago, Il, Us

Edovo seeks to help everyone connected to incarceration build better lives.I had the opportunity in a dual role of Director of Infrastructure / Principal Infrastructure Engineer to lead the strategic building of customer experiences, teams, technology, training, process, products, capital, sales and sustainability while also undertaking the opportunity to directly architect, build, deploy and maintain the nation's first generation of connected devices and private networks for Inmate rehabilitative use. This role offered a duality of strategic business growth and management responsibilities combined with tactical engineering development and execution.Milestones achieved at Edovo:- Founded and implemented the infrastructure vision of Edovo- Principally engineered our cloud (Multi-region AWS, multi-account, multi-VPC, transit gateway peered, direct connect hybrid cloud, EC2 / RDS workloads, ELB load balancing, S3 storage, Route53 DNS), physical datacenter (VMware, Cisco UCS), and on-site environments (Cisco Campus, Ruckus Wireless, Custom CDN, VPN or private transit to Edovo Datacenters)- Raising 10M capital over several rounds directly alongside our CEO- Created all Sales Engineering processes including marketing, and Technical RFP Strategy- Recruited infrastructure and multi-regional support teams- Successfully closing 20M in revenue, and multi-year contractual agreements- Made international partnerships with Samsung, Google, and OEM's- Architected the first Private CDN in Prisons. Reduced costs to the customer by 70% and provided a competitive advantage- Architected and implemented all AWS Direct Connection, ISP Links, IGP (OSPF) Routing, EGP (BGP) Routing, and Core / Backbone / Hybrid Cloud connectivity- Scaled the product and technology from absolute 0, to 100,000 daily served customers, 200 customer locations over 22 states, and over 30,000 managed endpoints - Delivered over 10 Million Minutes+ of Education content to incarcerated customers

Founded in 2011, Totally-Tek! Inc. was a technology consulting firm specializing in secure data infrastructure in the industrial, and enterprise spaces. As a founder and executive, I was dedicated to providing the best consultancy to Totally-Tek! Inc. clients, as well as building and maintaining strategic, operational and financial direction of the business.Milestones achieved at Totally-Tek!:- Sourcing and closing our book of business, including fortune 500, small business, and startup clients- Architected, price negotiated, procured, and deployed datacenters comprised of Cisco UCS and VMware vSAN serving Voice Termination to 100,000+ Customers- Designed and deployed multi-regional AWS Cloud Infrastructure (EC2, ELB, RDS, EFS, S3,) serving voicemail services to 100,000+ Customers - Deployment of robotic forklifts and automated packing on hardened full-mesh wireless in a 500k sqft sub-zero warehouse operation (1B business, Fortune 100 Client) - Full infrastructure design, procurement and deployment in a 250k sqft manufacturing facility for a large-scale fiberglass producer (100M Business, Fortune 500 Client)- Complete critical incident response related to Ransomware followed by connectivity and security overhaul for a major Midwest CNC Operator. Recovered all data by brokering an exchange with the attacker, followed by a complete and total security overhaul of the entire business (10M Company, Privately Owned) - Created the very first remotely managed and secured, CDN based encrypted IP TV over CATV system in Cook County Jail for Edovo- Developed CRM and support processes leveraging Salesforce.com, Slack, and Observability to comprise a complete customer relations offering.- Brokered all peering and resales partnerships with Tier 1 Carriers.Myself and our Founders were acqui-hired by Edovo in 2014 after architecting Edovo's first customer deployment in Chicago IL.

Irving, Texas, Us

Recruited directly into Caterpillars top research division to serve as the data communications expert to multiple research projects. I was responsible for designing, engineering, analyzing and implementing new managed communications technologies on some of the largest mining machines in the world. Our team was the first to fully autonomize the shelf mining and hauling process using on vehicle networked sensors, machine vision, and service based architecture on Linux on/off board systems. I directly executed design, prototyping, and engineering leadership necessary to develop the communication systems that connected on/off board autonomy systems, and test them in the largest surface coal mine in the world.Milestones achieved at Caterpillar Inc.:- First engineer to virtualize a Caterpillar ECM on x86 hardware - Developed communications systems integrating Wifi, LTE, and RFID, allowing us to fully remotely control a D11T Bulldozer remotely, from over 1000 miles away, with a PlayStation controller, with failover networks and safety controls/sensors- Deployed early versions of on vehicle Linux x86/Ethernet replacements for CAT CANBUS ECM's- Created Caterpillars first 'on-machine' testing tools that ran on hardened embedded x86 computers, attached to the wiring harnesses of Caterpillar Compact Tracked Loaders

Champaign, Illinois, Us

Provided nation-wide Network Operations development and support for hundreds of campus locations. Responsibilities included new site deployment, new service turn up, vendor partnership and procurement coordination, project management, backbone and co-location design, network incident management and resolution, as well as routine device configuration and maintenance. Ensured proper response and triage of network incidents, and also led deployments of new customer sites, co-locations, and network services.Milestones achieved at Pavlov Media:- Scaled our services in new markets (NC, NY, GA, FL) building to 500+ Sites, and 150k+ Customers- Design and deployment of new co-location/backbone site in Indianapolis, serving 50k+ new customers- Leading Deployments of over 100+ new customer sites (1000 beds, 5000 endpoints per site)- Spearheaded new peering and CDN partnerships and integrations (Netflix Open Connect, Steam by Valve, Google Global Cache, Akamai)

New York, New York, Us

Directly managed team sizes of 4-15 technicians, to refresh all PNC Bank Branch Locations in IL, IN, and MI. Deployments at each branch averaged 200 devices, made up of Cisco / Juniper Layer 2 networks, Dell workstations, and Diebold security devices. Responsibilities included software and hardware installation, configuration, and documentation of deployments, management of other IT contractors, interfacing with PNC Corporate IT and Security teams, as well as customer service and training considerations with PNC Bank Branch staff.

Champaign, Illinois, Us

Managed customer support and assistance at multiple Champaign Park District facilities. Staff sizes managed varied seasonally from 10 - 50 employees under direct supervision. Responsibilities included staff management, training, and scheduling, as well as coordinating customer interactions over various mediums. Daily duties required facility open and close, cash accounting, point of sale management, staff management and fielding customer issues as they arose.

Master’S Degree, Engineering Management

Bachelors Of Arts, Liberal Arts And Sciences, Minor In Philosophy