Cloud Solution Architect with extensive experience in optimizing customer environments and driving solution efficiency. Specialized in Cohesity Cloud Edition (CE) and SmartFiles NAS deployments, providing expert guidance in sizing, performance, and security. Proven track record of enhancing customer satisfaction through close collaboration with stakeholders, account teams, and SEs, leading pre-sales calls, and managing PoCs. Skilled in delivering field feedback and performance testing for AWS, Azure, and GCP deployments. Recognized as a global SME for NAS and cloud solutions, supporting account teams worldwide to ensure successful and efficient cloud implementations.• Improved solution efficiency by review of current customer environments - Support Escalations and World Wide Sales to Engineering communication• Sizing and review of opportunities for Cloud Deployments (CE) and SmartFiles NAS deployments. All SmartFiles opportunities flow through the team for review.• Enhanced customer satisfaction by collaborating closely with stakeholders and account teams by joining pre-sales calls, working with SEs on PoCs of products. Including the stand up PoC labs.• Worked with Product Management and Engineering to review, test, and provide field feedback for AWS, Azure, and GCP deployments as well as SmartFiles (NAS) sizing and performance testing.• SME NAS/Cloud Specialist - Global Scope. Worked with all account teams around the world.

Partnering with clients to understand and define top-of-mind business issues to pair with technology solutions that address these challenges.

My role includes the development of creative, robust, scalable, and reusable strategies to support business needs. In addition, I provide strategic and hands-on technical expertise to prospects and clients throughout their evaluation and implementation of technical solutions. I also articulate solutions directly with clients’ executives and staff, provide feedback on product features and priorities to the product management and core-engineering teams, seek out new industry and technology trends and apply this knowledge to solve business problems.

I worked as a Solution Architect with Trace3. My role involved the design of product solutions and consultative work with customers.

I am responsible for pre-sales engagements on all products in the NetApp portfolio. That includes ONTAP, Solidfire, StorageGRID, NetApp HCI, ONTAP Cloud, and various other software solutions. I’m responsible for many commercial and enterprise accounts in San Diego, CA. I also support two account managers in San Diego and Irvine. I work very closely with partners and customers on storage architectures, data management, and hybrid-cloud solutions.

I am responsible for moving the sales cycle forward and providing support for our AEs. I am required to hold partnership certifications with our manufacturers and can talk about all the products we resell. I work in pre and post sales engineering. My focus is mostly in pre-sales engagements for medium to large enterprise accounts. These engagements are around primary and secondary storage, backup/archive, and endpoint security.

I worked as a senior storage engineer on the datacenter team at Bridgepoint Education. I designed and developed standards for storage subsystems and integrations with VMware, and MSSQL. I worked with leadership to drive direction and storage road-map for the business . This includes evaluations of new storage systems and upgrades and management of current systems. Clustered DataONTAP (cDOT)Data ONTAP 7ModeSnapManager for SQLVSC for VMwareFlashpools All Flash FASNetApp WFA7MTT migrations to cDOTNAS/SAN SnapMirrorSnapVaultVMware SRM with NetAppCisco 5K Fabric - NX-OS

Systems - Project Delivery, VMWare, PowerShell, and Netapp Storage

I was responsible all client requests, these duties covered everything from desktop and application support, VMWare, and Datacenter. This role required an extra close focus on client needs.