Scaling to facilitate and manage 50+ Technology Partner integrations for Palo Alto Networks with primary focus on Strata-Core & Prisma Access products [incl. Panorama, Strata Cloud Manager (SCM), the ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) (various form-factors running PAN-OS), Cloud-Delivered Security Services (CDSS)/WildFire subscriptions, IoT/OT, GlobalProtect, Identity, and Decryption, etc.].Collaborate company-wide to successfully manage and facilitate the formation of “better together” technology partnerships that deliver “what’s next” in real-time prevention (ML/DL - Powered) cyber security solutions from various perspectives (i.e. Product, Sales/Partnerships & Ecosystems, Business Development/Go to Market), and Coopetition opportunities.

Collaboratively teaming cross functionally with Product Management, Marketing, and Go-to-Market teams to identify, facilitate, and form technology partnerships which create strategic and synergistic value for PANW stakeholders.SASE = SSE + SD WAN

Technical member of a cross-functional product management/product marketing team collaboratively translating technology into products offering the right customer relevant benefits.☑ Technical Marketing Engineering (Geek-Speak Translated into Solutions & Benefits Focused)☑ Technical Product Management (Problem Space/Persona/Product Planning Focused)☑ Product Marketing Management (DMU/Go-to-Market/Product Launch Focused)The loom of the quantum computing threat hovers deceptively distant (See Neven's Law) . Together with our partners, QuintessenceLabs protects encryption keys and data (at rest, in motion, or while in use) on premises or in the cloud, today and in a post-quantum world. Considering the amount of time it takes for organizations to migrate from legacy to quantum-resistant systems cryptographically agile and capable of protecting sensitive data from the threat of "harvest-now-decrypt-later" make it an imperative that organizations begin planning data protection initiatives for a post-quantum world now. Consider Mosca’s Theorem:If X = How long encrypted data needs to be secureIf Y = How long it will take your organization to re-tool existing data protection to be quantum resistantIf Z = How long until large-scale quantum computers become availableIf (X + Y) > Z, you should worry.If Neven's Law & Mosca’s Theorem isn’t enough for you, what about all the public keys stored in clear text freely shared on the BTC blockchain? With digital assets, all you own is a private key that's mathematically related to a public key, and that's if you don't keep your crypto on an exchange and you securely hold your own private keys (NYKNYC - Not Your Keys, Not Your Crypto). If someone has access to enough quantum computing power to break Elliptic-Curve-Cryptography (ECC) – all your bitcoin no longer belongs to you - because you thought you had more time. Qubits will be your friend or your worst nightmare. Proaction or reaction will determine which.

Technical Program Manager | Professional ServicesShape was a Kleiner Perkins, Norwest, and Google Ventures funded start-up that successfully launched a completely new approach to web security, making web sites expensive to attack and inexpensive to protect. Laid Shape’s foundational groundwork to create a deployment planning process and program management framework for multiple customer deployments from essentially nothing. Partnered and collaborated with executive and professional services team members to define and continuously refine how Shape ensures that newly acquired customers’ ShapeShifter Botwall data center deployments are successful. The program management framework I put in place is cloud-based, scaled concurrent active customer deployments by 700+%, and provided the executive team with near real-time visibility into the status of each PoC and deployment. With a rapidly growing list of customers, the foundation laid, and a scalable program management framework in place, the strategic aspects of my role continued to diminish while the administrative aspects continued to snowball. In order to continue career growth, the reality of then current and projected company size and maturity required that I explore additional opportunities.

Escalation Engineer | Global Engineering ServicesFound solutions, drove escalated issues to resolution, and provided advise to Riverbed SEs, professional service consultants, partners, and external customers worldwide for the SteelHead WAN Optimization and SteelCentral N/APM product families.

Facilitated the pre-sales process by showing enterprise and SP customers how to significantly reduce CAPEX & OPEX, improve customer experience & employee productivity, eliminate the cost of downtime, and enhance business agility by leveraging Radware's Attack Mitigation System (AMS) and Virtual Application Delivery Infrastructure (VADI) technology solutions.

Provided pre-/post- sales technical support to Brocade's sales teams, OEMs, partners, and end user SP and enterprise customers primarily on various L2-3 switches/routers, occasionally hybrid case issues involving L1-7, as well as on converged Ethernet fabric VDX (VCS fabric technology) hardware and software products.- Disambiguated customer requirements in order to reproduce difficult-to-reproduce customer-found issues in order to facilitate providing fault isolation and root cause analysis.- Leveraged my broad internetworking and deployment planning experience to assist major customers with improving/correcting critical Brocade specific sections within their MOP (Maintenance & Operations Procedure) documents.- Collaboratively worked with developers, test developers/QA, internal and external customers to drive issues to resolution.- Defused high-level escalations at both the technical and political level.

Significantly impacted customer business success and Citrix System's bottom line by teaming and collaborating with other cross-functional experts to strategically plan the deployment of cutting-edge load balancing, application acceleration, and application security technology systems to the enterprise and service provider space.

Significantly impacted customer business success and NetScaler's bottom line by teaming and collaborating with other cross-functional experts to strategically plan the deployment of cutting-edge load balancing, application acceleration, and application security technology solutions to the enterprise and service provider space.