Leader within Red Hat Consulting responsible for driving and executing on Red Hat Services at the largest and most strategic commercial banks and global financial institutions. Responsibilities include positioning professional services around product adoption, scoping projects from a resource and time perspective, and aligning the skills of Red Hat's consulting practice to meet the technical demands of projects across our accounts.

• Closed and delivered over $7.3M in FY20 in consulting and training at 2 of the 3 largest US banks across the Red Hat product portfolio, including OpenShift, Ansible, Platform, and Middleware products.
• Oversaw the successful implementation, accreditation, and operationalizing of the first OpenShift Container Platform on behalf of "Customer 0" in IBM FS Cloud, a highly secure cloud environment for regulated industries.
• Acting as the senior representative in project delivery, taking personal ownership of issues and coordinating with our engineering, support, and sales teams to to build stakeholder confidence and drive adoption of emerging Red Hat technologies, including Container Virtualization, Serverless, Service Mesh, and Container Storage.
• Serves as the People Manager for 7 Architects and Consultants, providing mentoring, career planning, determine compensation actions, and managing performance to include: bonus budgets, authoring and overseeing annual performance evaluations, authoring and approving awards, developing performance improvement plans, and counseling under performing staff when necessary.
• 1 of only 2 Territory Services Managers in North America awarded Presidents Club in 2020.

Hands on experience in all project delivery life cycle stages, including requirements, design, construction, operation, and training. A tireless proponent of high-quality deliverables, standards-based solution designs and process discipline. Cloud, Middleware and DevOps expert, real-world experience with large scale implementation of innovative solutions for a wide array of products, architectures, and industries.

• As a Project Manager, directly responsible for 11 Red Hat direct reports and 6 additional developers, across 5 parallel work-streams with individual senior team leads.
• "Scrum of Scrums Master", evangelist and change agent for introducing Agile development methodologies and best practices. Experience leading and coordinating multiple simultaneous sprint teams for 3+ years.
• As a Solution Architect, responsible for product and technology selection, standards development, and articulating best practices, principles and patterns to stakeholders.
• As a Cloud Architect, extensive experience in AWS environments, including the design, implementation, and production rollout of a bespoke PaaS which employs 'Infrastructure as Code' best practices and hands-free configuration management of complex, heterogenous application infrastructures, with extensive system and IoT field device integration.
• Implementation of push button, fault tolerant, auto scaling, multi-region, active-active cloud PaaS hosting environment for multi-tenant SaaS application capable of hydrated/dehydration on demand, duplication, and no-outage disaster recovery failover.
• As a DevOps Lead, responsible for comprehensive continuous integration, and continuous deployment using Atlassian technologies with comprehensive support for automated deployment from development to production deployments of complex, interdependent application suite.

Technology Consultant and integration architect for customers in the Financial, Consumer Product and Retail Distribution, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment industries building vendor agnostic solutions using COTS and bespoke enterprise products.