Jan 2020 – May 2020 · 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Nov 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

Apr 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

May 2015 – Apr 2016 · 11 mos

Jun 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Own product lifecycle for cloud solution platform. Lifecycle activities include feature ingress, prioritization, product backlog management, competitive analysis, and delivery coordination with engineering. Work alongside CTO and VP of Engineering to craft long term product strategy and roadmap.
• Support multiple divisions with product and industry expertise. Help marketing team with outbound communication by authoring whitepapers and bi-weekly blog posts, delivering webcast presentations, and preparing material for industry analysts. Assist sales team on RFP responses, sales tools, and product demonstrations. Aid engineering team by building prototypes and acting as a customer advocate and product owner during agile development sprints. Improve material used by services and operations team by authoring knowledge base articles and product description material.
• Perform industry and market analysis and provide guidance on product and company strategy. Engage in thought leadership on cloud computing through community involvement, proof-of-concept projects that demonstrate complex, real-world scenarios, and produce content pieces that explore the strategy and challenges around cloud computing.

Nov 2013 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

Sep 2011 – Jun 2012 · 9 mos

• Served as Lead Functional Architect for Amgen R&D which meant owning the technology direction of the R&D application portfolio. Provided leadership for over a dozen projects across R&D including evaluating cloud infrastructure vendors for compute-intensive scientific modeling, designing a global content publication system on Salesforce.com, and designing the company’s first clinical data warehouse. Additional responsibilities include defining and deploying a strategic roadmap program for use by internal IT teams, and producing an organization capability assessment.

Jan 2007 – Sep 2011 · 4 yrs 8 mos

• Delivered architectural guidance and system design for over a dozen RUP-driven projects including public facing websites, international CRM systems, system remediation for product launches, and enterprise document processing infrastructure. Functioned as lead architect on a multi-million dollar corporate program tasked with establishing a global call center and product quality system while harmonizing international business processes. Owned and documented the design of 5 total subsystems and all corresponding integration interfaces, approved all business requirement specifications, led technical team during software vendor selection phase, created project plans defined deliverables of the development team, and provided leadership and guidance to executive team, business analysts and development teams throughout the three year project.
• I authored Amgen IS standards for UML design and System Design Specifications,promote enterprise architecture principals through bi-weekly team workshops, and conducted research and shared findings on strategic concepts such as SOA, cloud computing, and complex event processing.

Mar 2005 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Assisted district team by building sales velocity through credible technical evaluations and proofs of concept. Owned, managed and accelerated multiple opportunities in top-tier accounts while simultaneously coordinating customer, partner and Microsoft resources. Maintained superior customer focus and deep customer relationships that extend beyond requirements of the job.
• I conducted or oversaw 17 different proof-of-concept projects, executed 10 formal architecture design sessions, and delivered 7 in-person training workshops to over 200 individuals.

Jun 2000 – Mar 2005 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Responsible for delivering high-performing, leading edge technology solutions with a focus on EAI/B2B scenarios using BizTalk Server. Designated as Application Integration Lead for entire West US region of Avanade. This additional role involved assisting in project proposals, building training materials, and regularly disseminating information about EAI and B2B solutions in the enterprise.
• Delivered web and integration projects in multiple sectors including government, finance, and hi-tech.

Sep 1999 – Jun 2000 · 9 mos