Consulting technical strategist with over twenty years of industry experience (fourteen with Red Hat) aligned to Red Hat North America Public Sector (NAPS). Possesses extensive pre-sales and consulting experience across the Red Hat product and technology portfolio working with customers, SI partners, ISV & OEM hardware hardware vendors to strategize and execute against ambitious, complex customer visions and requirements. Strong hands-on technical experience in the field with integrated hardware & software solutions coupled with a growth mindset and high aptitude facilitate rapid learning and application of new technologies and industry concepts. Proven capability to rapidly learn new technologies, products, and delivery solutions in both established and emergent technology markets and subsequently leverage customer-success focused understanding to lead both tactical and strategic pre-sales and delivery efforts across the Red Hat NAPS and Global business.Natural cross-functional leader and manager across consulting, sales, business development, marketing, technical support, engineering, and strategic business units with the goal of achieving tactical objectives and long-term strategic goals. Proficient at communicating at high levels of abstraction across long periods of time to C-suite leadership within Red Hat and at the customer level as well as in great technical detail to support short-to-mid term tactical planning & execution.Outstanding experience with emergent technology and succeeding with “first-of-a-kind” engagements without hand-holding. Adept at deconstructing complex industry concepts like DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, continuous compliance, and zero trust and converting these on a per-customer / use-case basis to customer success-focused strategic adoption roadmap artifacts guiding short, mid, and long-term technical execution. Formulated executive roadmaps focus on constantly delivering customer return-on-investment (ROI) through incremental realization of value-add capabilities and outcomes. Possesses over six years of management experience at Red Hat leading large, senior teams of seven managing architects and forty-three consulting architects across a wide variety of roles and technical backgrounds. A constant focus on leading through others, leveling up team-wide talent, and career development have maximized personal impact across both the Red Hat business and organization.