Category: Skills

  • Coaching

    I am skilled at coaching others and lead by example. I frequently coach my peers on application of new technical skills, navigating complex processes, and communicating with difficult or hard-to-understand people. I know that success is a moving target, and maintaining relevancy requires a life-long commitment to learning, continuous improvement, with honest and direct communication.…

  • Communication

    I am a highly effective communicator, with years of experience in writing and delivering technical presentations, writing technical guides and documentation, and leading meetings. I am skilled at asking questions, discovering business use-case and technical details, and communicating requirements to technical and non-technical people alike.

  • Sales Engineering

    I have more than 20 years experience in Sales Engineering. Previous Sales Engineering roles include Technical Specialist and Enterprise Architect at Sun Microsystems, Solutions Architect and Principal Architect at Sigma Solutions, Principal Architect at Exebridge, and Senior Solutions Architect at WANdisco.

  • Adaptability

    Throughout my career, my ability to adapt to change has been key to maintaining my relevance and success. Technology is in constant change, requiring continuously learning new skills, and assuming new roles. I have successfully pivoted back and forth between roles of service technician, technical architect, and sales. As technology has evolved, I have gone…

  • Field Sales

    I have been involved in Sales and Pre-Sales activities for much of my career. As Account Executive at Sigma Solutions and at Exebridge, I was responsible for closing sales across several large accounts. This required going outside of the office, selling products and services directly to clients. I successfully developed and closed many large deals…

  • Identity Management

    While at Exebridge, I developed a comprehensive technical architecture for a client spanning on-premises, cloud, and geographically dispersed office locations. This architecture required managing the identity of employees accessing the work environment, including the roles and permissions they needed to access various infrastructure. The solution included a federated Active Directory environment that was used to…

  • Innovative Solutions

    Innovation important in developing technical solutions to complex business problems. While at Exebridge, I developed an innovative solution enabling critical employees of a chemical plant operating out of Southwest Louisiana to continue to work, even during a catastrophic outage such as during Hurricane Laura in 2020. The solution leveraged cloud-based virtual workstations, allowing displaced workers…

  • Technical Specifications Development

    Technical Specifications Development involves constructing a detailed plan that outlines a project’s requirements, constraints, and objectives. This is a crucial part of determining business use-case, and is a critical factor in creating successful outcomes. This has been a necessary component in all of my Architect roles throughout my career.

  • Technical Training

    I have attended and delivered countless technical trainings throughout my career. I am continually developing new technical skills through self study, online training, and through formal training. I have trained customers, peers, and students on a wide range of technical topics. I believe the best way to learn technology is to teach it to others.

  • Systems Analysis

    As Pre-Sales Solution Architect, and Principal Architect, one of my core functions was to analyze a customer’s business process to identify its goal and purpose (use-case), and then to develop technical architectures that would support and achieve those goals.