Professional Experience

Solutions Engineer

Cloudflare

April 2023 - now

Wins strategic deals including from qualification and discovery to POC.
Collaborates with Account Executives as technical resource to qualify opportunity and solutions.

Amazon Web Services

December 2021 - April 2023

Owned the technical engagement with strategic clients and assists with creation of new technical strategies.
Demonstrated and provides overviews of AWS products and services and solicits additional spend to clients to meet their business and technical needs.
Developed and conducts training for clients on compliance with AWS best practices in migrations, security, cost optimization, and performance reliability.
Prepared architecture diagrams, estimates, and bids that meet specific client needs.
Monitored market conditions, products/services innovations, and competitors’ products, prices, and sales.
Represented client consulting engagements that led the cross-selling strategy to drive the value proposition of solution positioning and selling.

Xcira, LLC

January 2021 - December 2021

Facilitates discussions with senior leadership regarding technical and architectural best practices, risk mitigation and trade-offs for the development teams I manage.
Customer facing responsibilities include communicating with Product Owners to assist with any questions and troubleshooting concerns about production features.
Leads weekly web-scale and fault-tolerant enterprise software deployments of business software while coordinating with System Administrators to integrate and migrate to Amazon Web Services with on-premise technologies.
Monitor functioning and access to cloud infrastructure through AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail, and IAM.
Developed a on-call rotation system for after-hours/weekends to address business critical issues that need immediate attention.
Offered guidance and support to the QA team, teaching Python and basic programming courses to assist with company's automation intitiative.

Hillsborough (FL) County School District

February 2010 - January 2021

Developed and implemented Computer Science-related curriculum for classes from introductory to Advanced Placement levels.
Taught Computer Science courses to 9th-12 grade students.
Member of the District's curriculum writing team for Computer Science assessments and professional development.
Taught American Sign Language courses to 9th-12th grade students.
Created and Sponsored Coding Club, Girls Who Code club, and Deaf Awareness club.

Valrico Rams Youth Football Organization

February 2020 - December 2022

Designed client websites and features as well as customized social media channels to improve their online presence.
Content management, including image processing for the web.
Built HTML newsletters and managed the distribution through a CI/CD pipeline using AWS services.
Managed and updated the website and social media with HTML and CSS updates.