May 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Led CDW Digital Velocity's AI Practice, building custom enterprise solutions using RAG, MRKL, and multi-agentic architectures. Founded CDW's AI Center of Excellence to coordinate AI strategy across divisions. Created the company's first enterprise-wide AI Market Overview, adopted by executive leadership. Evaluated LLMs and AI technologies from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, Cohere, and others. Frequent speaker on AI implementation for both internal teams and enterprise customers.

Oct 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Transitioned CDW's consulting organization into AI. Led 10 Field CTOs and 60+ Solutions Architects driving $100M+ in services revenue. Orchestrated the company's first corporate-wide AI strategy and built an AI reference architecture that aligned offerings across divisions. Advised Fortune 500 clients on cloud strategy (AWS, Azure, GCP), application modernization, and early AI use cases including RAG-based chatbots and private LLM deployments.

Jul 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Led presales and delivery consistency for a 1,100-person consulting organization serving Fortune 500, healthcare, and public sector clients. Technical leader for a team of Field CTOs and Solutions Architects focused on cloud adoption and Infrastructure-as-Code. Regular presenter on automation and DevOps practices.

Dec 2020 – Jul 2021 · 7 mos

• Joined CDW's Digital Velocity consulting practice. Led client engagements in banking, healthcare, and transportation. Delivered cloud, container, and Infrastructure-as-Code training. Contributed to presales, marketing webinars, and organizational strategy.

May 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Led Global Partner Organization's programmability efforts, working closely with Cisco DevNet to provide educational opportunities for career channel partner network engineers to learn Python, REST, Git, etc.
• Acted as primary judge of the Cisco Partner Innovation Challenge two years running
• Investigated and presented cloud competitive intelligence and subsequent Cisco product opportunities, such as the August 2019 Capital One breach, the state of serverless as it relates to the pace of innovation in line-of-business teams, and analysis of public cloud provider announcements
• Built sls-pypi, a functional equivalent of the public Python Package Index as an example of time to market gains possible using serverless application architecture

May 2018 – Apr 2019 · 11 mos

• Enabled Partner and Cisco internal sales on the company multi-cloud strategy and specific hybrid cloud partnerships with Google and Amazon Web Services
• Founded and maintained fonk-apps, an open source project that examined competitive differences between various Functions-as-a-Service on Kubernetes offerings
• Co-hosted of the "Cloud Unfiltered Podcast," which interviews internal and external thought leaders
• Co-created "When a CCIE Meets a Developer," a mock sales meeting which educates partner and internal salespeople on a day in the life of a software engineer

Apr 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Enabled partner sales staff and delivery engineers for the company cloud and container product portfolio, including Cisco Container Platform and Cisco CloudCenter (formerly CliQr)
• Led technical team that grew the number of channel partners with CloudCenter installations in house from two to 46 within the first year of being acquired by Cisco
• Published over 40 articles in 2017 on 19 different Internet sites, including regular columns on Network World, Dataversity, and Cisco Cloud Blog
• Presented technical content and demonstrations at Cisco Live, Partner Summit, Partner Connection Week, various Fortune 500 briefings, and internal Cisco gatherings
• Co-created FunctionRouter.com, which combines elements of DNS and a CDN to dynamically deliver functions to edge devices on demand so they can be called from mobile applications with low latency

Sep 2015 – Apr 2016 · 7 mos · Santa Clara, CA

• Curated the CliQr customer lifecycle, which described various phases through which a prospect advanced, allowing a growing sales staff to quickly transition potential customers to a proof of concept
• Created video and written collateral to train both internal sales and external channel partners in proper delivery of the triage and product introduction portions at the beginning of the CliQr customer lifecycle
• Authored a new delivery lifecycle methodology to improve consistency in CliQr customer adoptions
• Managed Salesforce.com contractors and created custom reports detailing sales funnel velocity

Dec 2014 – Aug 2015 · 8 mos · Santa Clara, CA

• Curated the CliQr customer lifecycle, which described various phases through which a prospect advanced, allowing a growing sales staff to quickly transition potential customers to a proof of concept
• Created video and written collateral to train both internal sales and external channel partners in proper delivery of the triage and product introduction portions at the beginning of the CliQr customer lifecycle
• Authored a new delivery lifecycle methodology to improve consistency in CliQr customer adoptions
• Managed Salesforce.com contractors and created custom reports detailing sales funnel velocity

Jan 2014 – Dec 2014 · 11 mos · Santa Clara, CA

• Worked directly with the CEO and CMO to rebuild company messaging to be more focused on CliQr benefits, created of a new sales deck for the field staff, managed contractors during the creation of white papers, and acted as a Product Owner for an engineering team that built a new marketing web site
• Developed content for analyst calls and press briefings, and contributed articles in publications such as Computer Technology Review, Datacenter Knowledge, Business Solutions, and The Cloud Expo Blog
• Represented CliQr at trade shows such as OpenStack Summit, AWS re:Invent, VMWorld, and Interop

Sep 2015 – May 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Contributes statistical analysis content for Fantasy Movie League (www.fantasymovieleague.com), a web and mobile game developed by ESPN fantasy sports personality Matthew Berry. Created a set of Javascript-based analysis tools used by the player base (http://analyze.fmlnerd.com) to make more informed game decisions. Across three properties (personal blog, main FML site, and analytics tools), this engaging content generates in excess of 65,000 monthly page views from an audience of 28,000 players, all using serverless technologies.

Feb 2013 – Jan 2014 · 11 mos

• Promoted company brand, differentiating features, and market placement as a trade show panelist and speaker at events such as Cloud 2020, Cloud Connect, MSP World, and Game Developers Conference
• Served as the leading technical voice for ProfitBricks in briefings with analysts and members of the press including Gartner, InformationWeek, SYS-CON Media, GigaOM, TechCrunch, and more
• Frequently authored articles on cloud thought leadership topics, with placements on GigaOM, Data Center Knowledge, VentureBeat, and HPC in the Cloud
• Developed partnerships with Independent Software Vendors in a Business Development role that included guiding potential partners through phases of technical assessment, proof of concept, business relationship definition, cross training sales staff, joint marketing, lead nurturing, and case studies

Jul 2012 – Feb 2013 · 7 mos

• Demonstrated capabilities of HP’s Public Cloud (built on OpenStack) offering in presentations for Global 2000 customers, internal HP Sales staff, and developers at trade shows
• Provided overviews of public cloud to HP senior management, including Meg Whitman and her direct staff
• Conducted interviews and briefings with media and analysts, including Gartner, Silicon Angle, and SDR News
• Developed new demonstrations that showcase emerging functionality as well as partner offerings
• Worked with product management on prioritization and features given data collected in the field

Aug 2010 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Lead technical decisions and manage for multiple Agile development teams responsible for API documentation, language bindings, Command Line Interfaces (CLIs), and Community aspects of HP’s Public Cloud offering
• Produced and edited a popular series of end user how-to videos across all products and at multiple levels of the developer experience stack (REST API, language bindings, CLIs, and the web UI)
• Acted as liaison and “chief explainer” between technical engineering teams and HP Cloud Services non-technical personnel in Outbound Marketing, Support, Sales, and Product Management
• Authored REST API reference documentation and web site content for publicly facing web services
• Contributed content to and implement look and feel of the HP Cloud Services customer facing blog
• Evaluated various technologies, including Salesforce.com, Drupal, Lithium, DocBook, Chef, and JQuery
• Presented demonstrations of HP Cloud Services at trade shows and discuss strategy in press interviews.

May 2008 – Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Managed long term architectural direction of 45 assets across a variety of topic areas (including employee portal, HP-wide translation management, global environmental compliance documentation, software partner portal, and pan-HP Web Content Management System) after a reorganization broke HP.com IT into smaller pieces
• Co-led technical evaluation of best in class 3rd party Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) as part of a program to replace the largely static HTML publishing solution traditionally used to build HP’s global web presence with a more modern, dynamically generated pan-HP toolset
• Routinely presented status and future plans for asset portfolio to HP Vice Presidents
• Designed highly available and scalable hardware architecture for the newly selected WCMS, comprised of 104 servers across 6 data centers intended to serve 300 million monthly page views
• Investigated multiple alternatives to achieve optimal final mile and backbone web page performance, ultimately selecting a leading 3rd party Content Delivery Network caching solution
• Evaluated replacement potential of aging parts of the asset portfolio with new, rapidly created solutions based on the Grails programming framework

Jan 2006 – May 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Led long-term strategy for a team of engineers responsible for technology standards that govern all HP 1000+ websites, the company portal strategy, HP.com search, the HP.com home page, and a variety of other web publishing challenges (corporate blogging platform, community forums and wiki's, etc.).
• As part of HP IT's transformation, oversaw a consolidation process that trimmed a portfolio of 170+ assets to 52 over a 2 year period. This included moving the go-forward assets from 85 data centers worldwide into 6 located in the US while balancing Performance and High Availability concerns.
• Wrote white paper "HP.com's Transformation through SOA and Governance" for TheServerSide.com, October 2007
• Vignette Village 2007, with Slawek Zachcial, presented "How HP consolidates its portals with an innovative WSRP solution", October 2007
• BlogWorld Expo, panelist for session entitled "Corporate & CEO Blogging", November 2007

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

• Provided training, consulting, and support for a suite of open source-based frameworks used throughout HP for building web applications. Technologies involved included Struts, JSF, EJB, ASP.NET, and Javascript.

Oct 2001 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Led a development team that provided both Struts and ASP.NET web application foundations to HP internal groups. Over a 45 month period, usage growth increased from 2 to 83 teams using the various tools.
• Issued U.S. Patent #6,397,2456 “System and Method for Evaluating the Operation of a Computer"

Oct 1996 – Oct 2001 · 5 yrs

• Researched and wrote a number of HP-UX/Windows NT interoperability white papers commissioned by HP Consulting, including one on security that was published in the June 1997 issue of HP Professional entitled "Looking Through the Looking Glass-House".
• Teamed with other engineers to create a remote diagnostic tool for NT environments that integrated results into HP call centers.
• Presented "Troubleshooting in NT Environments with an Internet-based Diagnostic Tool" at HP World '99.

Jun 1993 – Oct 1996 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Created among the first web-based applications within HP, which substantially simplified the document submittal process into a keyword retrieval system used by product support personnel.
• Contributed to the pioneering team that made all HP enterprise customer support experience accessible over the web through the IT Resource Center (ITRC, www.itrc.hp.com), which continues to cut overall support costs by providing customers with a variety of self-solve tools.

Oct 1992 – Jun 1993 · 8 mos · La Jolla, CA

• First developer hired for a start up building business planning software on Macs. It was a lot of fun, I hated to leave that place after graduation.

Jun 1992 – Sep 1992 · 3 mos · Rancho Bernardo, CA

• DBA for the system that tracked all parts, supplies, and final product at a chip fab plant. I developed mad bar code printer skills there (programming for them, repairing them) I've sadly not used since.

May 1992 – May 1992 · 0 mo · San Diego, CA

• Wrote programs that queried voter registration databases to build spreadsheets that were then used to create focused political mass mailings. I got fired for taking the afternoon off to attend my grandmother's funeral. Great first job in tech, right?