Category: Skills

  • Technical Discussions

    As a career technical architect, engineer and technician, I have lead and participated in countless technical discussions, white-board sessions, public technical briefings, and business discussions as they relate to technology.

  • Technical Presentations

    I have delivered countless technical presentations throughout my career. This includes online presentations and demonstrations over business communications software such as Zoom or Teams, as well as in-person presentations and demonstrations at customer locations and trade-show events. I am proficient at building Power Point presentations, as well as delivering unscripted technical presentations and discussions.

  • Engineering Support

    I am a skilled technician, providing Engineering support to Sales at WANdisco, Exebridge, Sigma Solutions, and Sun Microsystems. At Exebridge and Sigma Solutions I performed dual-roles of Sales Account Executive and Principal Architect.

  • Concept Testing

    One of my primary responsibilities at WANdisco was Proof-of-Concept, or Proof-of-Value demonstrations for prospective customers. I have regularly and frequently demonstrated solutions to customer use-cases in a virtual lab, and in customer-owned on-premises test environments. Conducting Proof-of-Concept testing has been an essential part of Solution Selling for my entire career.

  • Unix Systems

    I have held advanced certifications in the Solaris operating system. I have lead the installation of and have supported many massive Unix system clusters from Sun Microsystems. I have extensive experience with Unix systems such as University of California, Berkley (BSD), Microsoft (Xenix), Sun Microsystems (SunOS/Solaris), HP/HPE (HP-UX) and IBM (AIX). I am also proficient…

  • Systems Installation

    As System Support Engineer 4, I was a fly-and-fix, area-level support technician covering the entire State of Texas. As such, I was the lead technician on all major systems installations, including massive Unix compute clusters requiring large storage systems and complex network systems. I have installed thousands of compute systems in my career at Sun…

  • ITIL

    I attended ITIL training, and completed ITIL Foundation certification while employed by Sun Microsystems. The best practices learned that support maximizing the value of IT by aligning IT services with business strategy has been instrumental in my ongoing success. Throughout my career as Solutions Architect, it has been my ongoing strategy to determine business use-case…

  • DevOps

    While I have not been employed as a DevOps Engineer, I do have technical skills required by this role. While at WANdisco, I regularly used deployment automation technologies, such as Jenkins and Ansible. I can code in several languages including Python, Javascript, and Bash shell scripting. I am a Linux professional, with decades of experience…

  • SLDC

    I was involved in the Software Development Life Cycle deployed as part of WANdisco’s Agile implementation by regularly attending developer meetings, providing feedback on customer experience, communicating bugs found while deploying into customer environments, and communicating software feature requests.

  • Agile

    WANdisco leveraged the Agile methodology of Project Management in their development efforts. While I was not directly involved in development work at WANdisco, I did interact with development teams on a daily basis, such as when filing bugs and customer feature requests. Awareness of the continuous collaboration and improvement processes was critical to successfully engaging…