Delivering industry leading network automation platforms designed to allow customers to take advantage of software to help lower the operational cost of managing today's heterogeneous networks. Manage the product management team responsible for all of Itential's innovate products and solutions.

Lead an engineering and architecture team tasked with building a global fabric orchestration and service delivery platform as acquired from Pureport. Provide guidance and technical leadership to the engineering organization. Work jointly with product management to define and deliver on specific capabilities. Continue to evangelize the benefits of building a network fabric software orchestration and automation platform both internally and externally

Set the overall strategic direction for Pureport's Multicloud Fabric. Lead the product management, software engineering and network operations teams to deliver network as a service. Work in conjunction with customers to evolve cloud native networking to meet the challenges of multi and hybrid cloud requirements.

Responsible for setting strategic direction focusing on the integration of legacy and next generation network infrastructure into Ansible and Tower. Identify integration opportunities, outline technical architecture and lead engineering implementation. Meet with strategic customers with a focus on how to transform network operations introducing more automated solutions. Regular speaker at industry events discussing the changing role of network operations, network automation and network technology.

Lead a software team that focuses on providing innovation solutions powering today's massively scalable data center infrastructures. Development of applications with an agile driven, community based approach building on the intersection of networking engineering, software engineering and systems development. Focused work on integrating infrastructure automation tools with Arista's Extensible Operating System. Current work includes the integration of networking operations principals with automation frameworks including Ansible, CFEngine, Chef, and Puppet. Work closely with customers to unlock to potential of network programmability through the fusion of solid development methodologies and sound network operations principals.

Lead core network design, engineering and optimization solutions for mobility service providers. Focused delivery of content distribution solutions for mobility service providers with emphasis on optimizing video for enhance quality of experience. Solutions delivery including network design, engineering and operations of content delivery architectures for managed and unmanaged video and media asset consumption. Contributed to company-wide intellectual capital through the generation of comprehensive white papers and presentations.

Directed network operations team with responsibility for the Core IP network and supporting systems. Daily tasks included formation and implementation of operational best practices, facilitating process improvement and guiding network evolution. Implemented operational metrics reporting for network management, configurations and key performance indicators.

Successfully teamed with Product Managers to bring Carrier Ethernet solutions to market focusing on disruptive technologies. Prioritized and articulated formal product requirements to engineering through the development of marketing requirement documents and product lifecycle management. Delivered executive level presentations and product demonstrations that highlighted product strengths and articulated comprehensive value propositions. Key contributor in developing a certified partner program with a focus on technical specifications, operational readiness integration and solutions design

Diverse responsibilities included driving solutions, testing, and technical content creation. Instrumental in handling customer beta trials coupled with leading operational network integration efforts; managing multiple customer engagements simultaneously while delivering key market metrics to both product management and software engineering. Executed product and solution interoperability testing conducted by industry standards organizations for showcasing at organized, public events. Spearheaded technical content for inclusion in trade show appearances highlighting key product strengths and articulating value propositions