Cloud Architect. Product Strategist. AI Builder.
I bring 25 years of enterprise cloud and security depth into product strategy, from platform foundations to AI-native workflows. I tackle complex business problems and architect the right technical solutions to solve them.
Who I Am
I'm a Technical Product Leader and cloud architect with 25 years of experience building enterprise systems and shaping the product strategies that scale them. I've spent my career at companies like AWS and Cisco, focusing first on complex business challenges and seeking out the appropriately scaled technical solutions to meet them.
At Cisco, I served on the post-acquisition tiger team for Duo MFA, partnering directly with Product Management and Engineering to validate product-market fit, shape go-to-market execution frameworks, and drive adoption strategies that contributed to approximately 50% growth in security bookings within three quarters. At AWS, I led a North America-wide program that contributed to $146M in influenced ARR across nearly 19,000 customers. I don't just architect systems. I build the products and programs around them that drive measurable results.
I hold an MBA in Product Strategy and Technology Management from Cal State San Marcos and four AWS professional and specialty certifications. I'm based in San Diego and focused on Technical Leadership and Product Management.
Where I've worked
Senior Solutions Architect
- Own product strategy and execution for AWS Security Activation Day - a North America-wide program reaching 18,000+ attendees from 5,800+ customers annually, directly contributing to $146M in influenced ARR, $53.9M in launched ARR, and 4.7/5.0 CSAT across 191 events
- Scaled program reach 250% year-over-year while sustaining customer satisfaction - proof that growth and experience quality are not mutually exclusive
- Partner with AWS Security service teams to convert field intelligence into product decisions, including authoring a PRD for a user attestation and auditing feature that strengthened compliance posture across customer identity workflows
- Mentor 7 Solutions Architects and serve as bar raiser across 22+ candidate assessments and 19 interview loops - maintaining a high technical and cultural standard as the organization scales
Senior Systems Architect
- Served as field product partner on Cisco's Duo MFA post-acquisition tiger team - validated product-market fit, surfaced deployment friction, and shaped GTM execution frameworks for a newly integrated security platform
- Translated discovery insights from 35 Systems Architects across the Western region into deployment patterns and enablement content that contributed to ~50% growth in security bookings within 3 quarters
- Advised executive stakeholders on architectural trade-offs across $15M+ in complex enterprise engagements - balancing security posture, cost models, integration sequencing, and long-term platform maintainability
Senior Systems Engineer / Pre-Sales Architect
- Owned a 10-year product lifecycle for a mission-critical unified communications platform serving 19,000+ users across 36 County of San Diego departments - managing roadmap evolution, feature prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and technical governance across multiple budget cycles
- Translated complex operational requirements from diverse government personas - via site surveys, stakeholder interviews, and infrastructure assessments - into multi-phase deployment roadmaps that balanced compliance, continuity, and scalability
- Served as long-term strategic technical advisor to county executive leadership, aligning platform decisions with operational priorities and multi-year budget constraints across successive administrations
Senior Systems Engineer
- Bridged enterprise clients and Avaya product development as a voice-of-customer liaison - channeling real-world field requirements directly into product roadmap feedback cycles
- Delivered enterprise telephony and communications architecture across mid-market and enterprise accounts in the Southwest region
Project Manager / Design Specialist
- Managed end-to-end project delivery and technical design for enterprise telecommunications deployments - coordinating cross-functional teams from design through customer acceptance
What I bring to the table
Cloud & Infrastructure
AI & Emerging Technology
Security & Compliance
Product & Program Management
Problems I've solved
AWS Security Activation Day
Approach
- Served as the single-threaded leader for NAMER Security Activation Day, orchestrating all end-to-end planning, scheduling, and speaker advisory
- Designed structured operating frameworks for discovery, architecture validation, and technical decision-making
- Defined program KPIs — CSAT, revenue attribution, field participation rates, and time-to-productivity benchmarks
Agentic Fleet Management
Approach
- Conducted targeted market research on logistics fleet management to uncover systemic inefficiencies and define high-value Agentic AI automation use-cases
- Authored the strategic executive pitch, framing the core problem statement, Total Addressable Market (TAM), growth projections, and product KPIs
Secrets Audit Tool
Approach
- Authored a full PRD defining MVP scope, user personas, acceptance criteria, and success metrics
- Built a Python CLI tool with Identity Center cross-account resolution and compliance evidence generation
Impact beyond the role
4 AWS Professional Certifications
Let's connect
I am open to strategic roles at the intersection of product management and solutions architecture. If you're building in the agentic AI or cloud infrastructure space and need someone who can translate complex enterprise realities into scalable product vision, we should talk.