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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Everywhere, Us

As the Head of Technical Sales and Customer Success at Modular, I’ve played a pivotal role in shaping our go-to-market (GTM) strategy and product direction during the early stages of our journey. - Early Design Partnerships: Successfully identified and onboarded key design partners, fostering close collaboration to collect valuable feedback that directly influenced product development and refinement. - Product Strategy: Partnered closely with engineering and product teams to align technical innovations with customer needs, ensuring our solutions deliver maximum value. - GTM Leadership: Led the development of our GTM strategy by integrating customer insights and industry trends, enabling a targeted approach to market entry and expansion. - Technical Engagement: Bridged technical and business discussions, demonstrating a deep understanding of customer challenges and crafting tailored solutions to drive adoption and success.Through this role, I’ve helped Modular lay the foundation for scalable growth while ensuring our offerings resonate with the evolving needs of our early adopters.df

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Joined pre-revenue and helped to build the GTM motion and built out the following teams: - Sales Engineering- Customer Succes Management- Post Sales EngineeringAlso responsible for the following areas of the company:- Documentation- Customer SupportIn my time at Redpanda I've helped to build a team that has achieved a 100% POC win rate along with achieving a 150% NRR.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Joined to build out the GTM team. As the first field engineer I lead POCs and implementations. Along with helping to recuit and build a team.

New York, Ny, Us

I help customers and prospects with their evaluations and usage of CockroachDB. My duties include working with customers and prospects to gather requirements, architect global deployments, and plan for migrations and ongoing operations. - Built the first iteration of the Django adapter for CockroachDB.- Helped to design topology patterns, which helped to expand the number of use cases in which can use CockroachDB. - Troubleshoot performance and hardware issues with several customers. - Lead technical proofs of concepts with prospects.- Give in-depth technical presentations to customers and perform presentations at other public forums on CockroachDB.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Own all technical aspects of the sales process. My duties included presenting Cloudera’s offerings, proposing comprehensive solutions, and ensuring the continued success of existing customers.- Responsible for the largest account in the company.- Helped to design and deploy some of the largest HBase and Hadoop clusters in the ecosystem. - Tied directly to over 100 million dollars in revenue. - Awarded Sales Engineer of the Year for two years.- Work with engineering and product management to meet the scale and business needs of our largest customer.

San Francisco, California, Us

I was responsible for all technical components of the sale cycle for OEM customers and partners. Managed critical areas of development that provided connectivity to several SaaS, NoSQL, and enterprise applications, along with driving product usability:- Closed the largest OEM deal in the company’s history by architecting a solution for zero message loss using ActiveMQ that addressed a key concern for the customer.- Prototyped a new connector framework for Mule ESB and, from this work, was put in charge of a newly created team that was responsible for the development of 20 new connectors. These connectors have had a direct positive impact on sales and market traction.- Developed the first customer application for MuleSoft’s iPaaS solution that provides integration services in the cloud.- Provided vital input to the engineering team around reliability, high availability, security, and overall product usability.- Created several extensions and patches for Mule ESB.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Managed major releases and developed new product prototypes while working closely with customers to increase market share and revenue. - Implemented a new product prototype that made use of GoldenGate, Tibco EMS and Oracle RAC, which was critical to a multimillion-dollar sale, using resources from outside contractors along with engineering and professional services. Personally responsible for designing the user interface along with providing Flex and Java development support.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Presented the technical aspects of Composite technology to a wide audience from C-level executives to database administrators and application developers.- Responsible for over 3 million dollars in revenue in 2007. - Supported 3 sales executives covering verticals ranging from financial services, pharmaceuticals, and energy.- Scoped and delivered proof of concepts to prospective customers, managing all technical aspects of the engagement. This included answering RFIs and creating summary presentations highlighting the solution in regards to the predefined success criteria. - Implemented data services for prospective and existing customers that integrated data across multiple data sources including web services and databases such as Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, Netezza, and Teradata.