Leading teams providing architecture consulting and pre-sales technical guidance for North American enterprise customers in the Advertising & Marketing, Software & Internet industries.

As a Solutions Architect, I partnered with customers to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address critical business problems. As a trusted customer advocate, I helped organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud.

As a leader of a systems engineering team in Seagate’s systems division, I partnered with ISVs (Scality, Cleversafe, SwiftStack) to co-engineer joint GTM solutions. I led software development supporting automated systems deployment, oversaw processes to validate solution quality and led agile project execution.

As an IT leader, I led the design and deployment of multiple multi-petabyte Openstack storage clouds in Europe & US. I oversaw workload migrations reducing CapEx spend on legacy storage infrastructure, liased with engineering business units and contributed IP to product engineering. One of 30 employees recognized from 50,000 for excellence in support of key business initiatives

• Led private compute cloud deployments in US & Asia• Partnered with BU's & IT Dev organization to identify key service requirements• Reduced provisioning time for infrastructure stacks from 3 weeks to 15 minutes • Composed and managed SLAs. Provided real-time operational metrics dashboards. • Optimized incident and problem management processes for Cloud• Managed Store (B2C drive returns) & SOLO B2B (processing $2B+) eCommerce environments • Supervised… Show more • Led private compute cloud deployments in US & Asia• Partnered with BU's & IT Dev organization to identify key service requirements• Reduced provisioning time for infrastructure stacks from 3 weeks to 15 minutes • Composed and managed SLAs. Provided real-time operational metrics dashboards. • Optimized incident and problem management processes for Cloud• Managed Store (B2C drive returns) & SOLO B2B (processing $2B+) eCommerce environments • Supervised change management processes enabling SOX compliance & data governance• Pioneered cost modeling & optimization initiatives, DC consolidation and Co-lo migrations• Promoted to Senior Manager in 2008• Defined/automated change management, operational processes, roles & responsibilities. Show less

Provided technical expertise across hardware, virtualization, operating system, database & application technology domains. Promoted three times in seven years from entry level to principal systems engineer.