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Dallas/Fort Worth Area

- Led the North America Commercial Application Development Solution Architects ensuring they have the onboarding, enablement, career progression, and technical support to drive technical sales- Collaborated with the Business Development Directors to define Application Services go to market strategy and solution focused sales play to build a strong pipeline of opportunities- Prioritized and provided critical feedback based on sales field input to the Product and Technology team to ensure our technology products and support continue to evolve to ensure customer success- Collaborated with the global technology team to drive standardization and consistency across the application development field teams- Managed a team of Solution Architecture Practice Leads and Specialists to ensure the technical sales field has deep technical experts to deliver demos, workshops, deep dives, and PoCs to customers

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

- Developed team of architects and consultants to become SMEs across Red Hat technologies focused primarily on business rules, BPM, complex event processing, and resource constraint optimization- Supported Red Hat Consulting Business Automation pre-sales and project delivery to meet bookings and revenue targets across North America as well as exceeding team billable utilization targets- Defined and executed a solution strategy by gathering field experience and developing standardized go-to-market materials- Collaborated with Marketing and Talent Acquisition to build out a high performing team and grew the team size from 2 to 10 members in only a year - Established relationships and feedback loops with other parts of the organization (BU, Engineering, Sales, Training, etc) to ensure field feedback is provided to them and that we are aligned on product roadmap and sales strategy- Drove pre-sales activity and success through discovery sessions and scoping meetings- Performed risk reviews on solution proposals by ensuring conformance to scoping guidelines and avoidance of known technical risk

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

- Managed project delivery for $4M+ of annual revenue across strategic clients such as Verizon, Level 3 Communications, Motorola, Walmart, Express Scripts, BP, Exxon, and UnitedHealth Group- Executed all phases of the opportunity lifecycle including scoping, sales, resource management, financial management, project management, and implementation- Partnered with resource management to appropriately staff projects and ensure consultants are a strong technical and soft skills fit- Developed Hackerrank exams to test candidate technical skills in order to ensure quality of candidates in the hiring pipeline and reduce interview burden- Standardized the project management process by creating templates and organizing them into a checklist in order to improve delivery quality and reliability in the Central region- Drove career development for 8 consultants as their people manager- Led projects involving many different Red Hat technologies including JBoss EAP, JBoss BRMS/BPMS, JBoss Fuse, OpenShift, RHEL OpenStack, and CloudForms- Monitored project revenue, margins, and utilization to meet defined targets

Greater Chicago Area

- Provided technical leadership for teams of consultants to design and implement technical solutions to a variety of problems with a focus on open source technologies- Led the design of system architecture and JEE applications based on the client’s needs- Major customers include Gogo, Tessco, and Noble Foundation

Greater Chicago Area

- Provided technical solutions to a variety of problems with a focus on open source technologies- Assisted in designing system architectures and developing JEE applications based on the client’s needs- Major customers include US Bank, Cars.com, and Frost National Bank

Madison, Wisconsin Area

- Worked with a small team to develop a web application to provide beneficial utilities for Epic’s customers- Developed an algorithm to plot zip code locations onto a conical map projection- Analyzed over 900,000 provider data entries to design a tagging system for efficient searching of medical specialties- Attained Epic certification in C# and .NET