Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Remote

• Solvesight helps you see and solve the right problem. Our consultants, typically 20-25 year veterans of technology, provide intelligent consulting on strategy, architecture and implementation for automation, SRE, AI, networks, big data, clouds, containers and security - organizational structure, process, tools, techniques, supply chain, systems architecture. People who work with us say "you're different - you ask unusual questions that highlight problems we didn't realize we had and that helped us immeasurably".

Jan 2024 – Jun 2024 · 5 mos

• I enjoyed striving to deliver excellent outcomes for Myriad360's customers, driving great relationships and driving our technical teams forward in the implementation of the most innovative products and services in the infrastructure world.

Aug 2020 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• I worked as part of a very talented team to drive triple-digit growth in product sales and services across Myriad360's customer footprint, identifying new and innovative vendors in the marketplace and helping them achieve product-market fit while maintaining our technical competence and acuity.

Jan 2020 – Jul 2020 · 6 mos

• As the leader of Myriad360's entire presales engineering team, I drove velocity and accuracy in product and services sales while generating and guiding enablement efforts across a huge portfolio of OEM/ODM partners.

Jul 2019 – Jan 2020 · 6 mos

• As an senior individual contributor within Solutions Architecture, I assisted with both delivery and sales obligations within individual projects across Myriad360's client base, in the following technologies:
• Network Engineering and Architecture
• Security Engineering and Architecture
• Network Management & Visibility
• Distributed systems (e.g. Kafka, NSQ, Redis, other SRE focus areas)
• Python (mostly around network and systems automation)
• Virtualization (from VMs to Containers), across VMware, Openstack, KVM and Xen

Jul 2015 – Jul 2019 · 4 yrs · Atlanta, GA

• NUF's Security and Virtualization practice encompassed architecture, engineering, and systems design for our clients for all security, virtualization, automation and distributed systems products (e.g. firewall, IDS/IPS, NAC, ADC, WAF, etc), contributing several million dollars of revenue for the business and delivering solid outcomes for our integrator and VAR partners and their respective clients.

Aug 2011 – Jul 2015 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Atlanta, GA

• Helmsman Technology Group provided advanced network consulting services in the areas of cloud computing, security posture assessments, advanced network architecture, network reliability, service-specific networking, and advanced platform analysis to service providers and enterprises.
• Examples of services we formally offered are:
• Network hardware platform analysis and test plans
• Quality-of-Service assessments and service assurance
• IPv6 readiness assessment and transition planning
• Business to technology mapping and network financial analysis/ROI
• Reducing network complexity
• Network risk assessments
• Network operations center consulting, process work, and training
• As the business owner and chief consultant, I handled pretty much everything.

Jan 2007 – Aug 2011 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• At Cisco, I provided pre-sales and post-sales consulting services in Mobile, Video, SP Routing & Switching and Managed Services areas to global customer base, recommending products and services and assisting with product development through suggestions to product managers and owners. I was also selected as member of the exclusive team that directs technical education at Cisco through the Virtual Team program. I was a track head and speaker at Cisco Live and a valued technical advisor to many internal TME/BU teams.
• My contributions included playing a key role in critical sales efforts across a 120+-country footprint, generating millions of dollars in new revenues as the Emerging Markets business grew significantly.

Sep 2004 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• In this role, I provided pre-sales support to one of Cisco’s largest customers (the largest mobile wireless carrier in the U.S.) in product selection, recommending protocol and technology solutions.
• I was able to contribute to the exponential growth of the Cingular/AT&T Wireless franchises, successfully protecting business from competitors by providing counter-balance to their offerings and providing technical advisory and strategy services.

Nov 2003 – Oct 2004 · 11 mos

• In this position, I served as the single point of contact for network infrastructure vendor management, including Cisco, Juniper, and Foundry. I was accountable for 1,000+ ports of switched, customer-facing infrastructure and oversaw 100% of peering and transit relationships, including daily operations and architectural designs.
• Contributions included cutting business bandwidth costs by 70% and helping with the transition to a new data center.

Nov 2001 – Oct 2002 · 11 mos

• Designed and configured network, provided pre-sales consulting, and oversaw initial phases of new data center construction. Built fully functional network infrastructure from the ground up in under 30 days. Provided on-site management for local data center and led initial phases for new data center build-out.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr

• Oversaw entire North American infrastructure for digital media distribution and streaming network. Drove increase in network uptime from 95% to 99.9%, deployed over 40 new sites with zero onsite staff required, and optimized database infrastructure that supported over 500,000 songs and associated media files.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 · 1 yr

• Managed several high-profile engagements as the 1st service provider consultant for the S.E. region of the U.S. Developed business plans and technical architecture, contributed to definition of service provider strategy, served as a liaison with Cisco personnel, and delivered presentations to T-Mobile and Sprint/Nextel.