Work

Clearscale · Full-time · 1 yr 11 mos

Director, Cloud Migrations

Apr 2026 – Present · 7 mos
  • Own P&L for Clearscale's global AWS migration practice, developing solution offerings and pre-sales strategy to hit revenue targets
  • Lead migration strategy end-to-end, from client and ISV partner relationships through delivery, accelerating time-to-value on AWS for enterprise customers
  • Build, mentor, and manage high-performing cloud migration teams, including resource allocation and capacity planning
  • Establish service delivery standards, KPIs, documentation, and playbooks that make large-scale migrations and transformations repeatable across engagements
  • Serve as senior technical escalation point for critical migration issues, partnering directly with client and AWS leadership to drive rapid resolution

Principal Solution Architect

Dec 2024 – Apr 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos
  • Designed and delivered cloud migration and modernization architectures for global enterprise and ISV clients on AWS
  • Advised clients on migration strategy, IaC, CI/CD, and containerization approaches to de-risk large-scale workload moves
  • Bridged technical delivery and business stakeholders to keep migration programs aligned to ROI and adoption goals
  • Led engagements end to end, from discovery, solution definition and proposals through implementation and adoption, for cloud modernization and GenAI initiatives
  • Shaped deals with technical proposals, scope definition and SOW contributions, and built reusable solution patterns that shortened sales cycles and kept delivery consistent
  • Published blogs and technical content on AWS and GenAI to build customer engagement and market credibility

Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Full-time · 6 yrs 8 mos

Worldwide Sr. Specialist Solution Architect, GenAI: Next Generation Developer Experience

Apr 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

One of three global specialist SAs defining go-to-market strategy for new and emerging AWS developer services (Amazon CodeWhisperer, then Amazon Q Developer) for AWS's top strategic customers.

  • Led large cross-functional launches, aligning product management, field teams and partners, and owned development, staging and rollout plans for new services
  • Created workshops and Skill Builder courses, wrote AWS blog posts, and presented at re:Invent and AWS Summits
  • Directed analysis of adoption and performance metrics to feed product and service improvements back to the service teams
  • Selected as an Amazon Bar Raiser, holding the hiring bar on interview loops

Worldwide Sr. Specialist Solution Architect, DevOps

Jan 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

Architected and managed cloud-based solutions that optimize developer productivity and implement DevOps philosophy, across a toolset of 21 AWS services including generative AI technology. A builder at heart, passionate about tackling complex challenges and driving innovation in cloud computing.

  • Joined pre-sales meetings with strategic customers as the DevOps and AIOps specialist, building relationships and shaping long-term cloud roadmaps
  • Designed AWS solutions with cross-functional teams and external partners, and educated the customer success team on Alliance partner technologies

Sr. Technical Account Manager, Strategic

Mar 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

Worked exclusively with AWS's largest and most strategic clients, including Fortune 10 enterprises, as their voice of the customer. Crafted and executed strategies to optimize their adoption of AWS, working the most demanding and complex issues across cross-functional teams and escalating to top AWS leadership to ensure customer success.

  • Drove adoption of AWS operational best practices at leading financial institutions, improving efficiency, security and compliance
  • Led cross-functional teams of solutions architects, engineers, sales and service teams to deliver complex AWS projects
  • Primary point of contact during AWS outages: joined bridge lines, coordinated the response, and kept C-level executives updated

Sr. Technical Account Manager

May 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Florida Area

Principal Technical Advisor in AWS Enterprise Support, the voice of the customer for organizations from start-ups to Fortune 500 enterprises, helping them craft and execute strategies to optimize their adoption and use of AWS services.

Malwarebytes · 1 yr

Site Reliability Engineer

Jun 2017 – May 2018 · Clearwater, Florida Area

One of four SREs, partnering with software engineers on deployment automation, stability, security and cost in AWS, and guiding developers to use AWS services within company policy.

  • Designed self-healing solutions for stability, security, and cost-effectiveness
  • Built automated scaling for high availability of distributed systems in AWS
  • Wrote scripts and Lambdas to enforce policies across AWS environments
  • Designed disaster recovery plans and the infrastructure to support them
  • Built universal Jenkins deploy jobs with Terraform that made builds roughly 10x faster and cut manual errors
  • Templated Datadog monitors and alerts in Terraform so other teams could reuse them
  • Migrated on-call from PagerDuty to VictorOps and improved Logz.io dashboards

Bristol-Myers Squibb · 2 yrs 2 mos

DevOps Engineer

May 2015 – Jun 2017 · Greater Tampa Bay Area

Supported developers and automated continuous integration and delivery for 30+ drug-to-market and assessment management applications in pharmaceutical research, on Windows and Linux with Oracle, Microsoft SQL, and Mongo databases.

  • Installed, configured, and maintained TeamCity, Artifactory, Sonar, and Docker
  • Deployed production applications as Docker containers from Artifactory
  • Implemented Nagios monitoring with Bash-scripted automatic recovery

Pegasus TransTech · 3 yrs 5 mos

System Engineer

Jan 2012 – May 2015 · Tampa, Florida Area

iDatix Corporation · 1 yr 5 mos

Systems Engineer

Aug 2010 – Dec 2011 · Clearwater, Florida Area

FirstEnergy · 4 yrs 3 mos

Sr. Desktop Support Analyst

May 2006 – Jul 2010 · Toledo, Ohio

TotalLink · 11 mos

Network Engineer

Jul 2005 – May 2006 · Toledo, Ohio

Education

The University of Toledo

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering

2001 – 2005