Career
Fifteen years from systems engineering to leading infrastructure strategy. Full résumé available on request.
2022 – present
Lead Systems Engineer
Martin Marietta, Raleigh, NC
- Built the cost-benefit analysis and migration strategy for 500+ VMware workloads moving to AWS, avoiding a $1.5M hardware refresh and offsetting a 300% licensing increase.
- Designed a pilot-light disaster recovery model on AWS that cut DR infrastructure cost by 40% with a recovery time under 4 hours.
- Lead a team of 10 Linux and network engineers across the US and India; managed $2M in vendor spend for a Cisco FlexPod refresh.
- Contributed to a Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp architecture across 80+ locations that helped reduce cloud networking operating cost by 20%.
2017 – 2022
Senior Technical Consulting Engineer
Cisco Systems, Richardson, TX
- Technical lead and customer advocate for global enterprise clients on Cisco UCS, VMware and Linux platforms.
- Led critical escalations and partnered with product engineering to prioritize defects by customer impact.
- Wrote training modules and knowledge articles adopted by global support teams.
2013 – 2017
Senior Systems Engineer
Fidelity Investments, Westlake, TX
- Supported 10+ business-critical applications on 300+ physical and virtual servers.
- Delivered a critical CRM upgrade on time and on budget; led automation with Ansible and uDeploy.
- Co-led change management review for controlled, auditable production changes.
2011 – 2013
Systems Engineer
Sprint, Overland Park, KS
- Maintained 1,200+ production and development servers for national telecom platforms.
- Administered Oracle and MySQL databases on tens of terabytes of SAN storage.
Education
- Boston University Questrom School of Business
Master of Business Administration, Expected spring 2027 - Kansas State University
M.S., Electrical Engineering, 2014 - University of North Texas
B.S., Electrical Engineering, 2009
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Cisco Certified Network Professional – Data Center (CCNP DC)
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
- PMI Project Management Foundation
- Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate