SUMMARY:

• Highly experienced, cybersecurity - focused Technologist (Sales/Cloud/Solutions/Systems Engineering), Instructor/Trainer, Leader/Mentor, seeks opportunity to bring decades of experience in the IT industry to help grow your business.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Sales Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential creates software solutions for Privileged Access Management, along with Endpoint and Server privilege elevation and delegation efforts to enhance an organization’s security posture, which can lead to a Zero Trust architecture. As a Senior Sales Engineer, I support and collaborate with Account
• Executives, secure technical win on sales opportunities, and provide competitive analysis with regards to other PAM solutions. I also perform product demos, presentations, lead technical discussions, best practice assessments, respond to RFPs, and provide technical guidance during discovery engagements. I also contribute to the organization to help establish and refine best practices standards among technical sellers, and interfacing with customers from individual contributors up to C-Suite executives.

Technologies: Privilege Access Management, Privilege Elevation/Delegation, Active Directory ID Bridging(Linux), MFA

Adjunct Lecturer - Cybersecurity

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Governance
• Compliance
• Linux Fundamentals
• Linux System Hardening
• Bash Shell Scripting
• Windows Admin.
• PowerShell Scripting
• Windows Hardening
• Network Fundamentals
• Cryptography
• Cloud Security
• ELK Stack
• Web Dev.
• Web Vulnerabilities
• Penetration Testing
• Intrusion Detection
• Intrusion Prevention
• SIEM
• Digital Forensics

Technologies: Azure, Virtual Box, Docker, Ansible, Splunk, Wireshark, Metasploit, more

Sr. Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Hired as contractor to initiate Microsoft Azure and IT Server Build Automation projects. Defining Azure for the IT System Administration team, development of golden images (Linux) for Azure.us deployment, source code control for Ansible scripts, implementation of Ansible Tower for automation initiative covering Azure, AWS, and on-site VMware environments.

Technologies: Ansible, Ansible Tower, Microsoft Azure, Government Contractor

Adjunct Lecturer - Cybersecurity

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Governance
• Compliance
• Linux Fundamentals
• Linux System Hardening
• Bash Shell Scripting
• Windows Admin.
• PowerShell Scripting
• Windows Hardening
• Network Fundamentals
• Cryptography
• Cloud Security
• ELK Stack
• Web Dev.
• Web Vulnerabilities
• Penetration Testing
• Intrusion Detection
• Intrusion Prevention
• SIEM
• Digital Forensics

Technologies: Azure, Virtual Box, Docker, Ansible, Splunk, Wireshark, Metasploit, more

Technology Consultant / Solutions Engineer

Confidential, Greenwood Village, CO

Responsibilities:

• Developed ~ $250,000 in Professional Services engagements over 6 months.

Technologies: Microsoft Office 365, Active Directory, Microsoft Azure, Email Security, Network design and setup, VOIP, SEIM, Anti-Phishing, Data Center Migrations, Private Cloud, Hyper-V, VMWare

Cloud Engineer

Confidential, Denver, CO

Responsibilities:

• Engineering support for Confidential ’ cloud infrastructure (Azure IaaS) and Windows administration, in-sourced from previous off-shore third party IT management staff, architectural planning, review/established new corporate IT standards.

Technologies: Change control, Active Directory, remote access, PowerShell, system and network security, audit review.

Senior Solutions Engineer

Confidential, Centennial, CO

Responsibilities:

• Drove technical initiatives to achieve business results for clients. Healthcare vertical.
• On track for $60M annual quota attainment.

Technologies: Dell Open Networks, VMware NSX, RSA, Secure Works, Pivotal, VMware), VxBlock, VxRail, VxRack), and Azure Stack.

Lead Systems Engineer

Confidential, Littleton, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• $4.5B quota for entire Confidential Channel (individual attainment not tracked)

Technologies: Hosted VoIP, SIP, Metro Ethernet, MPLS, BGP, Managed Hosting, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, VMware, DCI network access, Wireshark, TCP/IP, DNS

Technical Sales Lead / Pre-Sales Engineer

Confidential, Greenwood Village, CO

Responsibilities:

• Sales Systems Architect for software systems, then moved to STG Growth Initiatives Group. Appointed to tiger team for IBM PureFlex product line. Subject matter expert for Flex System Manager and Flex System Storage. Developed materials for the extended team, various public speaking opportunities and served as proxy for management on occasion.
• Average annual quota around $20M
• > 130% quota attainment for FY2013

Technologies: VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, and PowerVM, PureFlex, IBM StorWize V7000

Principal Storage Architect

Confidential, Centennial, CO

Responsibilities:

• Developed innovative approaches to storage management, capacity planning and performance monitoring across the organization. Drove 33% lower storage spending for 2011.

Technologies: Solaris, Linux, Oracle, MySQL, EMC VMAX, HP EVA, Hitachi, and NetApp. resources. Evaluated SRM solutions: NetApp SanScreen, EMC ECC, SolarWinds, HP Storage Essentials.

Senior Principal Pre-Sales Engineer/Product Specialist

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Sales quota of $30-35M annually for Midwest region
• Outstanding - Specialist SE for 2006
• Achievers Club 6% attainment on $85m quota)

Technologies: Anti-Virus, Endpoint Protection, Network Security, Firewall, Storage Management, Email Compliance and Discovery, High Availability, Disaster Recovery

Senior Instructor

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Delivered classroom sessions for all Veritas Availability products Volume Manager / Filesystem / Clustered Filesystem, Veritas Cluster Server, HA/DR, Storage Foundation for Oracle and Oracle RAC, Veritas Volume Replicator . Designed and implemented automation scripts for weekly classroom workstation rebuilds.

Technologies: Oracle, Oracle RAC, Storage Management, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Data Replication

Senior Consultant / Professional Services Engineer

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Midwest VIP 2001 for Outstanding Performance and Dedication
• Subject Matter Expert in HA/DR, Enterprise Storage Management and SAN technology

Technologies: Volume Manager, File System, Volume Replicator, Cluster Server, NetBackup