25+ years across enterprise IT — delivery, pre-sales, strategy, and adoption.

Platform Adoption Services Architect

Broadcom (formerly VMware) · Palo Alto, CA / Remote — Houston, TX

Lead customer adoption of the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform across the TOLA and Midwest regions. Engage customers post-purchase to translate Broadcom and VMware investments into rapid, measurable value — orchestrating delivery across internal services, customer-purchased professional services, and partner resources.

• •Helped 24+ enterprise customers successfully adopt and implement VCF, combining internal Broadcom and partner services to accelerate time-to-value.
• •Run technical and outcome-focused workshops with customer leadership to assess current footprint, define future state, and produce actionable adoption roadmaps.
• •Translate VCF capabilities into customer business outcomes — platform consolidation, operational efficiency, developer productivity, and risk reduction.
• •Orchestrate cross-organizational delivery across Broadcom services, customer teams, and certified partners to keep adoption engagements on track.
• •Serve as the customer's trusted technical advisor through the adoption journey and feedback channel back into Broadcom services leadership.

Senior Staff Business Solution Strategist

Broadcom (formerly VMware) · Houston, TX

Regional strategist for Enterprise and Strategic accounts across TOLA (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas). Partnered with AEs, SAs, and CSMs to translate customer business priorities into multi-year transformation strategies aligned to the Broadcom/VMware portfolio.

• •Led executive-level business case development, translating customer KPIs (TCO, time-to-market, developer productivity) into multi-year value narratives that justified strategic investments.
• •Anchored CIO and CTO-level customer engagements — framing technology decisions in the language of finance, risk, and competitive advantage.
• •Coached and enabled account teams on outcome-based selling and strategic deal construction; mentored newer strategists across adjacent regions.
• •Led account planning and territory strategy sessions for the region's largest opportunities.
• •Influenced portfolio messaging by feeding regional customer insights back into product marketing and sales enablement.

Senior Staff Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales

Broadcom (formerly VMware) · Houston, TX

Pre-sales technical lead for named Strategic and Enterprise accounts. Transitioned from delivery into pre-sales to bring real implementation experience into the customer's buying conversation.

• •Owned technical strategy for a portfolio of high-value customers — discovery, solution design, executive briefings, POCs, and competitive positioning.
• •Built services-led sales motions that paired licensing decisions with the operational transformation work required to realize value.
• •Acted as the technical conscience in deal pursuit, ensuring proposed architectures were deliverable, supportable, and aligned to the customer's operating model.

Senior Consulting Architect, Professional Services

VMware · Houston, TX

Senior architect in VMware Professional Services, designing and delivering enterprise private cloud (SDDC) implementations for Fortune 500 customers. Full-stack architect responsible for the working private cloud at handoff — compute, storage, networking, automation, operations, and cost management.

• •Architected and deployed private clouds spanning vSphere, vSAN, NSX, vRealize/Aria Automation, Aria Operations, Aria Log Insight, vRealize Business for Cloud, and Site Recovery Manager.
• •Mentored colleagues across the Cloud Management practice and contributed to delivery methodology, intellectual capital, and Service Delivery Kits used by field consultants globally.
• •Engaged with customer operations leadership on capacity, performance, incident, and problem management process integration.

Professional Services Architect / Program Manager

NetApp · Sunnyvale, CA

Global Professional Services lead for NetApp's management, operations, and orchestration/automation products. Program-managed delivery methodology, training, and field readiness for OnCommand Insight and Workflow Automator.

• •Built and ran the global enablement program for storage management consultants — curriculum, certification, metrics, and corrective-action plans.
• •Acted as escalation SME for field engineers, consultants, account teams, and pre-sales engineers across the regions.
• •Facilitated customer workshops mapping deployed solutions into ITIL processes — capacity, availability, financial, incident, problem, and configuration management.

Systems Engineer

Avanade · Houston, TX

Led multiple Avanade and joint Accenture/Avanade engagements focused on enterprise Microsoft platforms, directory services, and infrastructure compliance.

• •Architected consolidated messaging platform and migration tooling for a 50,000-mailbox airline.
• •Designed consolidated directory service strategy across dozens of user repositories for a major energy services company.
• •Led a joint Accenture/Avanade team bringing global Windows infrastructure into Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for a global energy provider.

Advisory IT Consultant

IBM Global Services · Houston, TX

Senior consultant for Microsoft messaging and operations management products, leading multi-customer engagements across messaging migration, consolidation, and global deployment.

• •Architected messaging consolidation for a major semiconductor manufacturer, migrating from Lotus Domino to Microsoft Exchange.
• •Led engineer team in Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 migration for a national call center operator.
• •Led global team deploying server solutions across data centers in the US, France, and Singapore.