Bio

Accomplished Federal CTO with over 25 years of evangelizing technical solutions to a wide variety of audiences. US, state, and local government customer-centric professional with experience in Fortune 100 and start-up companies. Expertise in government go-to-market (GTM), mission-driven federal system integrator and agency partnerships, business development, presales, postsales, and customer support. Deep technical knowledge in DevOps, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, FedRAMP, Databases, Search, and Enterprise Knowledge Management across government, healthcare, and life sciences industries. Public speaker, author, enterprise architect and patent holder and frequently appears on podcasts as a subject matter expert. I understand the challenges of building a government business from early stages to a thriving vertical with enormous potential for growth. More about me: Granted patent as the co-inventor of solid state hard drive algorithms. Associate Certified Enterprise Architect (ACEA) from FEAC Institute with focus on civilian government agencies. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. As part of a technical sales teams, exceeded multi-million dollar quotas. Trained over 1000 customers. Cultivated key relationships through consulting project management and post-sales customer support. Quickly learned and embraced new products. Wrote and revised technical white papers, magazine articles, documentation, RFI and RFP responses, training material and was published in a national trade magazine. Started two sole proprietorship companies. Valued and recognized the contributions of team members. Presented at numerous conferences. Sold to government agencies as well as healthcare and life sciences companies. Specialties: DevSecOps, public speaking, technical sales, enterprise architecture, big data NoSQL database technologies, Adobe AEM, XML, XQuery, semantics, business intelligence dashboards and analytics, Electronic Design Automation EDA (or ECAD), financial and ERP data analysis, marketing events and trade shows, webinars and training. LinkedIn Hashtags: #DevOps #DataManagement #Healthcare #Database #NoSQL #ETL #DataCompliance #WomenInTech #MarkLogic #LaunchDarkly