Bio

27 year I.T. career along 3 significant paths. Most recently: - 9+ years as a pre-sales solutions engineer specializing in Kubernetes security, DevOps automation, cloud architectures, cloud migrations and hybrid infrastructure. Consultative, trusted advisor approach to customer problems and aligning solutions to serve customer innovation and software development automation. - 14 years software development & I.T. operations delivering software from various roles as a developer, operations & administration, and executive management reporting directly to CEO / Board of Directors. - 6+ years strategic I.T. consulting designing and delivering leapfrog projects, data center migrations, IT maturity capability and M&A analysis of I.T. organizations. My superpower: X-Ray vision into I.T. organizations, specifically software development maturity and velocity. Every IT environment is unique. Delivering numerous software and technology projects through a vast array of technologies, processes, organizational capabilities and cultures affords me a deep understanding and empathy of an environment's unique challenges. Identifying potential solutions, aligning their specific value to the organization and being able to describe in detail how to deliver that solution is incredibly powerful. As a sales engineer, that insight enables real-time strategy and tactical guidance for natural solution alignment and trusted advisor status without invoking sales fatigue with a customer. I have been told I am a sales organization's secret weapon and an I.T. organization's best friend. Deep experience implementing DevOps and agile across software development, product innovation, I.T. strategy, application transformation and app migration to the cloud. Fluent in microservice orchestration via K8's, Openshift and Rancher, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), CI/CD pipeline automation via Jenkins and CircleCi and varied SDLC processes and cultures (Agile, Lean, DevOps). My personality is humble, authentic, positive, coachable and inquisitive: A teammate you would trust and rely on. Expert in subduing complex problems, context switching or presentations between technical and executive audiences, and finding win-win solutions. My proudest team successes overcame extremely constrained budgets, mandated timelines, hostile business cultures, development death marches, acquisitions, and literal rocket launches. Numerous management roles including CIO with increasing responsibilities and strategic consulting directly to CxO's spanning startups to Fortune 50.