Jan 2023 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area · Remote

• As a Cloud Architect for Instabase, I worked with customers, Sales Engineers, and Engineering to ensure that the Instabase platform can be deployed in both customer environments and in our managed SaaS platform.
• I enabled clusters to deploy the Instabase platform as a complex, scalable, cloud native Kubernetes application. This included integrating all aspects of infrastructure and support for Machine Learning, Deep Learning Training, and Large Language Models. In addition, I worked with customers to integrate our solutions into their upstream and downstream systems and act as a customer advocate to drive internal change to better meet our customers' needs.
• Internally, I supported our go to market team and sales engineers to understand complex, multi-discipline challenges that customers might face in implementing or integrating the Instabase platform in their environments. To better enable scale, I produced internal and external documentation on topics of infrastructure, deployment, integration, and CI/CD pipelines.

Nov 2017 – Jan 2023 · 5 yrs 2 mos

• As a member of the Strategic Partnerships Team, I worked with the largest, most strategic Azure cloud opportunities within Microsoft.
• My technical role was to support strategic pursuits and deals across the entire company. My responsibilities included technical data gathering, support for Account Directors and other teams within Microsoft. I used my understanding of our products, the customer position, and industry experience to perform analysis of applications and their technical requirements, synthesize this into technical architectures, detailed consumption plans, and supporting technical documentation for large Azure deals.
• Supporting these large deals required interaction with customers at various levels, from CIO and IT leadership to individual technical contributors. I further interacted with members of Azure Global Engineering, Microsoft Finance, and Sales Leadership to advocate for the customers' technical requirements as well as to bring agreement between Microsoft and the customer for a cloud migration plan going forward.

Jul 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

• As a Cloud Solution Architect, I worked with targeted Enterprise customers and helped drive initiatives for digital transformation by leveraging the Microsoft Azure platform.
• My role was a technical, customer facing role that was accountable for the end-to-end customer cloud deployment experience. As a CSA, I owned the Azure technical customer engagement including architectural design sessions, specific implementation projects and proofs of concept.
• My key responsibilities included: driving the deployment of the customers’ workloads into Azure and increasing their consumption of the platform. Establishing deep relationships with key IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company. Identifying, validating, and growing opportunities to accelerate consumption in high potential customer accounts. Leading deployment of projects, creation of collateral, and training of sellers and partners in my area of specialization.
• In addition, I was involved with and presented at the SoCal Microsoft Azure User Group.

Nov 2015 – Jul 2016 · 8 mos

• As a Technical Solutions Professional, I worked with customers and field sales teams to deliver technical pre-sales expertise as part of the Azure sales process.
• Using my deep technical understanding of the Azure platform, I worked with customers to ensure that the correct products and solutions would be used in the most effective manner resulting in my customers' ability to achieve more.
• Working with the field sales team, I was responsible for technical thought leadership, education, and execution of proofs of concept.

May 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Orange County, California, United States

• Datacenter TSA for all DC technologies. I worked with enterprise customers to understand business needs and designed and helped implement new and improved datacenter technology, software, management, and processes. I also collaborated with OpenStack Team to deploy private cloud for enterprise customers.

Apr 2010 – May 2013 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Orange County, California, United States

• My role was as Datacenter Consulting Systems Engineer and I worked with Cisco Unified Computing System, MDS SAN, Virtualization, and Cloud Services.

Mar 2007 – Apr 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• I started my vendor career at HP as a pre-sales architect working with ISS Products. My focus was on HP BladeSystem, ProLiant, HPC, and Management Software.

Aug 2006 – Mar 2007 · 7 mos

• Senior IT Engineer for Alcone Marketing Group. Managed Windows network infrastructure and applications.

Mar 2002 – Aug 2006 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Senior System Adminsitrator responsible for all aspects of IT. Managed Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, IIS, VMWare ESX, Cisco WAN and LAN, Brocade SAN, HP BladeSystem and HP EVA Storage.

May 2001 – May 2002 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• IT System Administrator for Seasons 3, 4, and 5.
• I worked as on location system administration for all aspects of tournament management. Set up and tear down of location network and computer systems. Monitored all IT systems including contestant check-in, judges stations, and management workstations. Interfaced with television production crew as needed to provide technical IT and network support. Created and maintained reports for scoring and tournament results.